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    Lightbulb punto gt care

    picking up a gt2 next week sometime

    , and just wanting to know if there is any books or sites or anything on how to look after the gt properly,

    u know prolonging the life of the turbo, how often to service and how to do it etc


    is there a haynes manual for a punto gt

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    There is a manual, its the Porters one, they are quite difficult to coma across tho.
    RE care for the GT, all you need do is search on here and it will all be there some where.

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    http://dev1.boomersdomain.com/cgi-bi...howprod_PM3827

    Like Cat said do a little search for what you want and its mosts prob on here

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    If you look around the site under the turbocharged section and go through the pages you should come across many threads that should help you maintain your gt.

    If you don't want your turbo to die on you then always warm the car up and down i.e drive off boost for a few miles up untill your oil gauge sits on 2bar and when you've arrived at your destination let the car idle for about a minute (depending on how hard you've been driving) never just turn it straight off. Others have different methods such as driving off boost for the last few miles of their journeys etc. If your impatient buy a turbo timer

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    Do not cut corners on parts, it will bite you in the arse ten fold

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    so do turbo timers just keep the engine running after you have got out the car and taken the key out the ignition?

    how easy or these sort of things to install

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    best way to look after the turbo is to not increase the boost, cars runnign standard boost tend to have turbos on 100k miles, when people up the boost and start to tune it for more power/boost etc the turbos life is decreased.

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    Arrow

    so what would u suggest if i am planning on upping the boost?

    buy a bigger turbo?

    my aim is to get 200bhp

    im no expert but i seriously doubt the standard turbo is capable of such things

    ha

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    Do a search and you will find out which turbos and parts are needed.

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    No the Standard turbo can punt out maybe 175 at a big push but it'll die soon after (ask wayne lol)

    For 200hp your looking at 500-1200 for a stage2 turbo
    100-300 fopr a front mount intercooler
    150 for a seb4 chip (ina group buy)
    50-120 for a fuel pump
    50-120 for a fuel pressure regulator
    100-400 for a stainless steel catback exhaust
    30-50 for a decat (dr evil)

    And alreayd have a good bottom end, prices are rough from cheapest to upper most and are for new parts roughly. Thats the minimum also

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