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After the last 3 months of my Stagea being off the road due to a blown turbo and not enough cash, I can happily say that it is now back on the road again. Turbo died on the 1st of January (Great start to the year) and I had only just got re-employed after 2 months of no job so have had no money. It's great to have my Stagea back and be able to drive it again after sitting there looking at it for the last 3 months sitting in the garage going nowhere. Like driving a new car again. Hopefully all goes well and later on down the track (6 months) I can afford to get a whole new turbo setup for it, like I was planning on doing this time. Unfortunately funds didn't permit it at the moment so back to a standard R34 turbo, down from a GCG hi-flow. Car runs good and am very happy to have it back. Just thought I would share my happiness.

Dave

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The Banana is back... :PBJ:

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I am happy that you have a new job. Getting Stagea on the road is a bonus.

Was your blown turbo a GCG high flow? I have gone to the trouble of getting one over from Sydney and I wouldn't like to think it has a short life. Did you find the reason for the failure?

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Yeah the Hiflow was a GCG. I think the premature death was caused by overboosting. When it was on a Dyno it was hitting just short of 15psi and it looks like that's what it was running most of the time so, lesson learned. I wasn't the one to set the boost level, was how it was running when I bought the car so something must have been done before. This standard turbo seems to be hitting the max of 7psi roughly so that's good, hopefully it lasts till I can get more money together. The GCG was 18 months old when it died (Confirmed when I rang GCG with the job number on the plate). Would expect no problems with your unless you give it hell. Was going to look at getting it sent away and get redone but just going to go a aftermarket turbo with a few things changed here and there.

On another note- Had the car on the road for less than 24hrs and had 2 little kids about 10yrs old, hiding behind a parked car on the side of the road and when I went passed they sprayed the car and straight in the passenger window with a water pistol. Scared the shit out of me cause it was a big super soaker and it got my wife in the face and sprayed threw to the back getting my 2 year old in the face and waking him up. Should have seen the look on their face when I hit the brakes, chucked the car round and chased them. When it happened, cause I didn't know what the hell happened, I swerved partially onto the other side, lucky for no oncoming cars. Caught one of them when he tried running home. After a mouthful of abuse about how dangerous shit like that is for unsuspecting motorists, the missus told him to go inside and tell his parents what he had done, sure enough off he went crying so don't know what his parents thought.. Oh well.

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Unfortunately, found out this morning that when I chucked the u-turn to chase the kids, my left hand wheel when into a small ditch and it turns out I compressed the left side of my front bumper causing it to crease and stuffing the paint. Oh well, lesson learned - run the kids down next time and do the bumper properly. :nyaanyaa:

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Unfortunately, found out this morning that when I chucked the u-turn to chase the kids, my left hand wheel when into a small ditch and it turns out I compressed the left side of my front bumper causing it to crease and stuffing the paint. Oh well, lesson learned - run the kids down next time and do the bumper properly. :D

Hey David, is your stagea pearl white?

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