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i've always thought that my car would have stock turbos which have not been high flowed but my friend raised an interesting point yesterday.. he thinks that i should try to put the boost upto 1.3, 1.4 or even 1.5 bar to see if the turbos have been high flowed or they r just stock ones... he says that if they r stock ones, the boost will just drop when been overboosted.. so no damage to the turbos or the engine... but i am wondering if i should do this or not coz i am worried about the negative damage it *might* cause...

what do u think guys??

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If you do that the ceramic blades will fly off straight through your cut and both your turbo and cat will be ****ED!

Tell your friend to stop giving advice!

Also any "boost cut" that you hit will be caused by the ECU not turbo!

And that amount of boost might cause detonation which could **** your engine!

thanks for the advice guys... (i was gonna try it next monday at EC... :( thank God i posted this stupid idea here first..) i will stick with my "fast-but-got-used-to-and-need-more-neck-snapping-boost" 1.2bar .... :D

ps : my friend used to drive a 600+hp GTO so i thought he actually knew what he was talking about... it appears to be he has nfi just like me...~~ keke

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