is US turbo timer a must?

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Aug 28, 2003 | 08:50 AM

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garface

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With a turbo timer, you can't leave your car in gear, correct? I wouldn't be too happy about that if I parked on hills often.

Aug 28, 2003 | 04:38 PM

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Blarg

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correct

Aug 29, 2003 | 01:13 PM

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Kean

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just watch out if you turn off your motor a lot after heavy boosting. you'll boil off coolant so keep an eye on the coolant level. as long as the catch tank has coolant in it you're fine.

i lose about a quart in 30K miles....in CA in the summer with the AC running 97% of the time.

I'm confused. Don't we have a closed loop system? Any coolant that is vaporized would eventually condense into a liquid again....right? .....or mabey there are other holes in the system I'm not taking into account?

Aug 29, 2003 | 03:57 PM

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Peaty

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I'm a little confused myself about that, the flashing of the coolant is supposed to happen when it hits the hot bearing surface, this is done by design for the cooling. It will flash taking away heat and then the vapor will go right back into solution when it gets up into the upper tank and cools off. They take this into account when they designed the system so I'm not sure why you should have the level get low

Aug 29, 2003 | 05:14 PM

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I have the J-Spec HKS Type-1 turbo timer. Silver matches real well. I dont' mind being in kmph and all that since I just leave it on the auto mode and it just shows how long the car is set to idle. Looks a lot better than a black turbo timer on silver

Aug 29, 2003 | 10:45 PM

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I have the J-Spec HKS Type-1 turbo timer. Silver matches real well. I dont' mind being in kmph and all that since I just leave it on the auto mode and it just shows how long the car is set to idle. Looks a lot better than a black turbo timer on silver

hm... silver does look a lot better. my question is whether it's compatible. i mean... are the km reading accurate? you know what i'm saying? kmph and mph shouldn't work together.