WTF? boost does distributor damage...

[nealtovsen@yahoo.com (Neal Tovsen)]

Speaking of flanged tubes: Any suggestions for putting
a flange or bead on cusom boost tubes? I made my
tubing myself from 2.25" mandrel bends, and I don't
have a tube flanging machine...

Neal

--- Cory Langford <corylang@dccnet.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Been there done that :) (although my tubes are too
> low to take out the
> distrib.) You learn a quick lesson though.  Any
> boost required the correct
> fittings.  Real T-clamps (not hose clamps) and
> flanged tubes ;)
> 
> Cory
> 
> 
> At 10:28 PM 03/13/2003 -0500, Neal Tovsen wrote:
> >Sorry for the rant, but I had to tell someone.
> How's this for "wierd"?
> >
> >Katie and I were going to put some more break-in
> miles on the '77 by
> >taking a ~275mi trip to Ft Myers and back,
> caravaning with a friend who
> >happened to be headed that way in his MR2. We
> haven't even gotten five
> >miles from home, and I punched the throttle at
> 2500rpm in 4th gear. It
> >pulled quite hard to 4000rpm (superchargers are
> cool!). I shift into
> >5th, hit the gas, and NOTHING! Well, not "nothing",
> but more like I
> >would expect in any other 8v low-compression VW at
> 2500rpm. Barely any
> >increase in speed. What the heck?
> >
> >Pull into gas station, pop the hood, and find the
> boost tube popped off
> >the intercooler. No big deal. Clamp it back down,
> start it up, and move
> >on. When I get on the road again, I went to about
> half-throttle, and the
> >engine stutters BAD. Huh?
> >
> >My friend makes a wild guess and thinks maybe the
> plug wire came loose
> >from the distributor. It is near the boost tube
> that came off, and
> >didn't look like it was sitting quite straight. So
> I pull the plug wire
> >off, and with it comes a chunk of the distributor
> cap! The boost tube
> >blew off the intercooler with sufficient force to
> break the plug wire
> >off of the distributor!! I couldn't believe it.
> >
> >We managed to limp it home with the wire kind of
> pushed into the cap. As
> >long as I didn't stress the engine at all, it ran
> smoothly on all four.
> >
> >One less new Bosch dist cap in the world, I guess!
> >
> >Neal
> >
> >
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> Cory Langford
> '86 turbo project - running, just needs tuning :)
> '79 Cheap Ass turbo daily driver - Restore in
> progress...
> '65 Ghia - The next project in the garage


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