Newcastle Dyno Day, Wrap-up.

[IceMyButt]

Master G,

I know what you mean about loose turbo bolts - I am having hell with my turbo manifold staying together tight - I spent a couple of hours tightening what I could on Saturday night before heading up to Newcastle. It still cost me 1 PSI, but wasnt as bad as it could have been.....

[ms700]

Master G,

I know what you mean about loose turbo bolts - I am having hell with my turbo manifold staying together tight - I spent a couple of hours tightening what I could on Saturday night before heading up to Newcastle. It still cost me 1 PSI, but wasnt as bad as it could have been.....

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Which bolts are coming loose?

Manifold to head, manifold to turbo, or turbo to dump pipe?

[IceMyButt]

Manifold to both head and turbo - mainly to turbo though.

Know of a more permanent fix mick??

The guys at MRT are looking into bolts that can tolerate the temps better, Ford seem to say that they are tightening these bolts at one service, and replacing them at the next - any comments?

[Eugene]

Manifold to both head and turbo - mainly to turbo though.

Know of a more permanent fix mick??

The guys at MRT are looking into bolts that can tolerate the temps better, Ford seem to say that they are tightening these bolts at one service, and replacing them at the next - any comments?

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Are they bolts or Nuts on studs? If they are bolts, then I know Caterpilar, the equipment manufacturer make a series of bolt for the job, all are 3/8 (10mm) dia and have self locking nuts, these do not come loose, I promise.

Most of the high output engines use them and once done up dont move, maybe we could look at that, I am going to check both mine and Muzza's tonight ans I can not get more than 12spi boost over 4000rpm, muzza cant get over 8psi.

Some where boost is going away on both our cars, mine used to run 13.5psi all the way to the end, not any more.

if it isnt that, I will be sticking anew acctuator on and trying it then.

[IceMyButt]

The turbo to manifold ones are bolts with nuts I believe - and the manifold to block are just bolts....

The high temp fluctuations and the constant expansion and contraction of the metals are supposedly stretching the bolts.

It has to mean leaking of boost - it also makes the car feel like their is alot of turbo lag as it takes the turbo longer to spool up.

ANy permanent solution is welcomed!

PS - My car was the one with the underbonnet bling u were talking about Chris

[Ford Grunt]

Master G,

I know what you mean about loose turbo bolts - I am having hell with my turbo manifold staying together tight - I spent a couple of hours tightening what I could on Saturday night before heading up to Newcastle. It still cost me 1 PSI, but wasnt as bad as it could have been.....

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Me three. Did the same, spend good part of Saturday, tightning everything I could see, turbo manafold, exhaust manafold, turbo bolts (man some of these are hard to get at). Still, was leaking! I had a bolt missing from the turbo about 1 month ago, till I had it replaced.

My turbo bolts and turbo manafold in particular are working themselves loose, being main reason mine was done on kws and running lean (due for a retune too).

Im keen for a fix as well.

Cheers,

Ford Grunt.

[Eugene]

The turbo to manifold ones are bolts with nuts I believe - and the manifold to block are just bolts....

The high temp fluctuations and the constant expansion and contraction of the metals are supposedly stretching the bolts.

It has to mean leaking of boost - it also makes the car feel like their is alot of turbo lag as it takes the turbo longer to spool up.

ANy permanent solution is welcomed!

PS - My car was the one with the underbonnet bling u were talking about Chris

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That sure was one Pimped up ride under the hood, I hope it all works as good as it looks , the factory cross over is sh*t and needs to go, so it is an area I am looking at along with the plenum/manifold.

I will measure up the bolts on the turbo to manifold todaywhen I do Muzza's car, he is so pissed of with it, he can get 280rwkw with only 8psi boost, imagine what we can get with 12-13psi across the board.

Once I have bolt sizes I will go and get some nuts and bolts from Cat, and see how I go, is there a Gasket in there too, I dont have aparts manual to check and our local guys could not even find the wastegate acctuator in the book, let alone a turbo/manifold gasket.

I tightend mine at 30K, all were loose, one missing, I havnt touched them since, I now have 65K, so its afair bet I have loose ones.

I will start a new thread when I have all the measurements and some more info.

[iTec]

Speciall thanks Eugene, you put on a good show and credit must go to the guys at RX enginering for putting up with us all day

I was very happy with my 209.5 RWKW (stock + K&N) and cant wait till its pushing a little closer to 300.

Loved CYC-06T (username?) car, talk about the full works, 20's 300+ KW, brembro's, DJR bodykit, Tailights and a full whiteline suspension upgrade im in love!

DBoss and So-Lean allways the cards in the deck both cars make all the right sounds just different ways of making them

Cro and junior playing with the G-tech was kinda fun... have to try to get the videos off my phone

cheers to all the rest of you for the great day and all the info that was floating around...

ohh highlight of the day goes to Cro's dohnut... beat the dboss leaving just

[DBOSS]

ohh highlight of the day goes to Cro's dohnut... beat the dboss leaving just

Bloody Cro what dohnut I did'nt see a thing

[dal_dhillon]

That was up the back of the factorys jeff he did a dohnut and then he did another o to 100 with the G-tac then came back and started to yell Cop's r coming hahaha we all jumped in and Pi*ss back as quick as we can like 17 year old kids!!! hahha

Dal.