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Cam Bonner

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« on: October 20, 2004, 11:43:33 am »
ok so I may as well make this clear to start with. I dont have a DSM. I do however have a turbo 4 cylinder car. its a 1987 XR4Ti. Not a whole lot of support for these cars so getting any help is next to impossible. So I figured the DSM club would be the next best place to come can;t really think of any other popular turbo 4 cars out there locally.

So anyways heres my issue. the car has a turbo 2.3 litre with a rather over worked Garret t3. theres no IC, no BOV, nothing. this is stone age turbo technolagy. Boost kicks in stupid late at around 3 grand red lines at 5.6 (yuck). but around 4.2 the engine sounds like it doesnt; want to rev anymore and all power just completely drops off. its as if I just drove into a deep puddle. So this gives me a power band of about 1200 RPM... kinda useless. So my question WTF IS GOING ON!? its suposed to pull to red line and it doesn't.
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Offline Chris Andrews

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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2004, 12:09:20 pm »
An old beat up 1987 turbo motor could have a lot of issues.........

Has it had a recent 'tune-up"?  If not, start there....  

If yes, then perhaps start by checking static compression....
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« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2004, 12:21:54 pm »
the guy siad it had had a tune up..but I dont; really believe him. it had the wrong plugs to start with so I was gettign spark blow out on boost. changed the plugs that fixed my missfire, new cap and rotor, wires. I tried to do a compresion test on it..but gave up. burnt my hand on the turbo one to many times.

I'll give it another go though.
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Offline Fraser Cassells

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« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2004, 05:07:13 pm »
Dude, those are great cars! And you have ALOT of reading to do.  :)

http://www.merkurtech.com/merkurtech/techarticles/main.php

Start here, and google till your eyes bleed.
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« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2004, 05:45:45 pm »
XR4Tis are awesome.  I'd love to grab one, and might have if I hadn't been so dead set on a DSM.
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Offline Artem Goloubov

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« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2004, 09:34:25 pm »
Where do you get parts for this things? :shock:

Mercurs are not very common are they.

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Cam Bonner

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« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2004, 10:17:58 am »
unfortuanatly my engine bay looks nothign liek that... its ugly, dirty and stock...very stock.

I'm starting to wonder if I'm getting random lvls of boost. sometimes I can keep up with my buddys VR6 GTi no problam...other times well... I got beat by a civic the other night.....
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Offline Ryan Lore

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« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2004, 10:21:37 am »
locally a company called Draken specializes in them

I sell them tonnes of turbos, I'm sure they could help you out.
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Offline Ravi Gill

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« Reply #8 on: October 24, 2004, 09:11:55 pm »
I was listening to the Jim Rome show (team 1040) last year and they were making fun of this car cuz that's what Jim Rome used to drive.
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