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robare99
11-19-2005, 09:27 AM
I am getting more and more interested in a turbo for my GT. The one question I have is this. I do a LOT of highway miles on my car, the nearest run to a big city is about 2.5 hours away. How would driving these long distances with a turbo affect things. Probably a noobish question.

TIA.
hawaiianboy
11-19-2005, 09:33 AM
I want to know the same thing. I do alot of miles on the highway as well.
Immo
11-19-2005, 09:52 AM
when driving on the highway you are in vacuum (assuming you're not driving 140 mph :)) Than the turbo 'just' helps the car breather easier and there's no real negative effect.
Swing Fixer
11-19-2005, 10:15 AM
Only drawback to having turbo on a daily driver is that you need to be prepared for the car to potentially in the shop a bunch. Most people I've seen on here with turbos suffer through lots of down time. If you have a 2nd car then go for it!
Jesse IL
11-19-2005, 11:09 AM
I've driven my turbo GT-S Chicago to northern Wisconsin (320 miles) and Chicago to Pittsburgh (460 miles). I got something like 27.5 mpg on those trips running the A/C the entire time.
robare99
11-19-2005, 10:51 PM
I'm more concerned about the reliability than milage. Gas is really nothing to me.
Smaay
11-19-2005, 11:41 PM
reliability will be just fine as long as everything is installed fine...like mentioned, you wont be in boost during highway driving so there is no extra load on the car
pnoy
11-19-2005, 11:46 PM
turbo will be reliable if:

1. everything is installed fine
2. tune up correctly
3. not abusing the engine

you may or may not boost in highway depending on how you drive.
robare99
11-20-2005, 12:34 AM
I see. So I could actually turn the boost right down with a boost controller then, for highway driving.
elementgts
11-20-2005, 12:46 AM
as long as your not wot your fine...
SleeprGT
11-20-2005, 07:34 AM
I get 40 mpg highway :) And i drive long distance all the time :) Stay in Vac, its not as fun but pays off. check your oil and coolan lines before long trips. and your good :)
twistedGTS
11-20-2005, 09:41 AM
Only drawback to having turbo on a daily driver is that you need to be prepared for the car to potentially in the shop a bunch. Most people I've seen on here with turbos suffer through lots of down time. If you have a 2nd car then go for it!

:werd: my car is daily driver, I has been turboed for over 1 year and about 15k miles. I love it but there is always little problems here and there. If you can afford to be without the car once a while you should be ok, just don't abuse it.