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boosters
onya:
Love the photo of the 86 motor, where do you find them. ;27. I have a 86 and the pipe is about 1 inch for the plastic booster and it shows no sign of melting, but I will now wrap some protector around it. ............
TK how do you keep it so clean.
White88:
Yes Tippa that's exactly what i'm saying, in the conversion from left to right
the booster is placed right beside the EGR pipe and it gets REALLY HOT without the right protection it can and did melt a hole right through the plastic booster.I've have received and installed the metal booster last week , 9 inch in diameter and not as thick, so now I have 30mm gap and all is good. ;28
Thanks guys for the responses
Thunder Kiss:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by onya
Love the photo of the 86 motor, where do you find them. ;27.
--- End quote ---
That photo was taken at the 2004 convention. The car belongs to the proprietor of Gotech in Melbourne.
Vette Obsessed:
Seems I misunderstood you white88. For what its worth cracked plastic boosters (near the bottom - where it is nearest to the exhaust manifold) are fairly common on C4's so I'm not too sure if moving the egr pipe would make a huge difference.
It would be interesting to see if there are similar failures on non-egr cars or cars with well insulated exhausts...
All 1990-1995 ZR1's have metal boosters from the factory. Not sure what is involved into doing the swap of a ZR1 booster into a "regular" C4 but plan on looking at it eventually.
White88:
Thanks Vette Obsessed , you can buy metal boosters that bolt right up in the original holes from the states from www.hotrodusa.com cheaper than oem part landed in oz.I fitted mine last week and it seems fine so far. As for moving the egr pipe that wasn't in my plans when you can get metal boosters!.
cheers
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