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Turbo BS Thread

Discussion in 'Performance and Tuning' started by Clay_916, Mar 20, 2017.

  1. Oct 15, 2017 at 12:17 PM
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    Where does that exhaust gasket fit between?
     
  2. Oct 15, 2017 at 12:21 PM
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    Yeah I don't have any gaskets like that with my cx kit.
     
  3. Oct 15, 2017 at 2:22 PM
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    That’s wierd.
    between the vband flange faces. Junk.
     
  5. Oct 15, 2017 at 3:49 PM
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    Where is a good place to buy vband flanges and turbo flanges?
     
  6. Oct 15, 2017 at 3:58 PM
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    Yeah I thought the point of Vbands was not to have any gaskets am easy to take off... Mine doesn't have any, just metal to metal and I have no leaks
     
  7. Oct 15, 2017 at 4:23 PM
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    My taco made boost sounds today!
     
  8. Oct 15, 2017 at 4:25 PM
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    Isnt it the greatest? Wheres the vid brah?
     
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  9. Oct 15, 2017 at 4:27 PM
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    Had a slight exhaust leak at my v band. Fix that and I'll do a short clip soon. But transmission works.
     
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  10. Oct 15, 2017 at 4:29 PM
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    You should make a thread write up just on the trans swap
     
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  11. Oct 15, 2017 at 4:31 PM
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    I was thinking of doing that. I found out a lot of stuff no one could answer for me. Great upgrade for the 1st gen 2wd guys with a 2rz or 3rz
     
  12. Oct 15, 2017 at 4:47 PM
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    I wish you were 4x4 lol
     
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    Maybe one day I'll get dumb and slam an atlas behind her, lol. Or never.
     
  14. Oct 15, 2017 at 5:38 PM
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    Well vband flanges are supposed to consist of a male and female flange, but considering CXracing only uses female flanges, that’s probably why they include (obviously not in all orders) the gaskets. All of their gaskets are junk anyhow.... every one.
     
  15. Oct 15, 2017 at 5:42 PM
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    Haha wow, you're right. I just went on google images and realized all my V-bands are female lol. Hey I guess it works though :D
     
  16. Oct 15, 2017 at 6:41 PM
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    I get literally everything on eBay or Amazon and if you look hard enough, you can find some good deals on good stuff. Vibrant or Godspeed flanges and clamps are good
     
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    Wait there a male and female flange? I might have welded mine wrong,lol
     
  18. Oct 15, 2017 at 7:13 PM
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  19. Oct 15, 2017 at 7:18 PM
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    Lol yeah man. One has an outer ring that sticks out like 1/8” and the other one has a groove for that ring to sit into.
     
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    Both my flanges looked flat faced like this.
    1A6BF135-5507-4BBE-995C-F1C293C390E1-7714-00001688379FD9B6.jpg
     
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