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Old 10-04-2014, 04:12 AM   #167
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Originally Posted by FR-Sizzle View Post
My dad is a master mechanic and tells me all the time that turbos/FI isnt the way to go as he was always rebuilding them for customers. The bearings needa be replaced all the time according to him and even with turbos now with all the cooling still need to be dealt with. You need to be on top of things otherwise you will have problems in the future. Going FI your going to have way more things to deal with that can go wrong and always changing out oil more often etc. Checking your lines if they are good etc. Lots of things to deal with when you go FI.
A turbo setup developed properly will only really suffer more than an N/A setup if you absolutely thrash the engine from cold. I built up a 1.1 turboed engine pushing out over 200whp which has been absolutely rock solid for 155k miles.
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