In the month or so of being turbo I have had a few funny things happen. You guys should share your messed up boosted happenings

Mine:

The first week after the turbo install I go to wash my car at one of those automaic places. It was in the 40's so it was too cold to use the old bucket and sponge. Now, this is one of those huge car wash/detail/gas statioin/subway places and it was the first nice sunny day in weeks so there is a huge line of cars for the car wash

So I am waiting in line forever, like 30 min, ....finally about to enter the wash and my car won't go forward. I was like WTF. I try gently again to pull forward and I hear a scraping noise. OH ****! I forgot about my downpipe and clearance...I can't get in the car wash with my downpipe hanging so low.

The attendants are yelling at me to move forward and I am like "STFU, my car is stuck". I then realize that all 30 or 40 cars in line are all going to have to back up for me to get out of there. I got some really nasty looks from some people but I could not help but laugh. It was a big cluster fuc getting all those cars to back up. The place was real nice about it and gave me a refund.



The other one was just a few days ago when i was driving out to Michaigan to go to the track with Neal. I am on 294 in chicago and start smelling gas. You get alot of smells in rush hour traffic so I thought it might be one of the many truck surrounding me. Then the smell gets reall strong and I know it is my car....but my fuel pressure was fine and the car was running fine. Where I was I couldn't pull over to the side so I kept driving. The smell gets over powering and I look down and notice my gas gauge is droping like a rock. OH ****!!!! I had about 3/4 tank of gas and in less than a minute it was at 1/2 tank....then a 1/4 tank. And of course with my luck there was no exit for about 4 miles. So I am craping my pants watching my gas gauge drop slowly but finally make it to the next exit right when my fuel light comes on.

Open my hood and my engine bay is covered in fuel and there is a nice trail of fuel behind my car. Dont' see anything right away but then notice my FMU lline is disconnected. My freaking SS line came off my fuel return line and fuel had been spewing out like a volcano. I some how forgot to clamp the fuel line to the barbed nipple and it worked its self off. Luckily I had an extra clamp and my tools with me and fixed it on site. Wasted about $25 in gas.

Always have tools with you if you own a boosted car

Lets here how your boosted car made you look like an fool!

 

the story about the gas has got to be the funniest thing i have heard in awhile

mine was when i was installing my supercharger. i hooked the fuel lines up to the fuel rail backwards and after repeated cranks the car wouldn't start. So i check the fuel line and when pulled the gas line off the built up pressure shot the gas across the garage hitting my friend right in the chest. It was pretty funny.

 

-Doing an auto to 5spd swap after boosting, and when the auto tranny came down, it came crashing down and red tranny fluid went anywhere. My dad came out hearing the sound and freaks thinking i'm squished.

-I put my 2nd valvebody in the auto and sx7r is outside telling me if the tranny is working as i slowly shift gears with the wheels off the ground. He gives me thumbs up until the 3rd or 4th time that i'm moving the shift lever, and he freaks out and yells at me to turn off the car waving his hands etc... I get out and he nonchalantly tells me, i'm just playing...

- Sx7r is driving his friends from the airport home in his g/f's GTI. I had a fuel issue where I'd automatically hit 80 psi of fuel @ 11 lbs, and the car ran pig rich. He's bragging to his friends about how quick the sc'd maxima is, and i punch it... he punches it.... he pulls a buslength or so on me... He gives me a perplexed look...

- After I blew my original motor -which I had sucked water into - I figured i lost all that oil from the crankcase vent. I go to walmart and get el cheapo oil.... and fill the motor and realize that it's trickling at my feet. We soon discovered that we could see in THROUGH the block @ pistons 1 and 2. Got JB Weld?..




There's others, of which sx7r may contribute.... but thats it for now.

 

don't forget to sign up for AAA just in case you need a tow.

 

Dropped the hammer at a red light after installing my GM MAF/Blow through set-up, I had to use a couple hose clamps until the next day when I could buy Tbolts. Anyway, boost spikes to 23psi and the car hits a wall in the middle of the intersection (6 lane rd.) I assumed the worst (ie lifted the head) and push the car across the road, cause about 40 people to sit through their green light. Pop the hood, re-attach my Upper Intercooler Pipe, turn down the boost and went home to change my drawers.

 

That happened to me on the way to champaigne to visit my gf. Turns out i had too much slack on the return hose and the tranny burned a hole into the hose.

I was like 5 miles away from her house, so i filled it up and drove it the rest of the way. Everything was closed at the time so I had to fix it the next day.

 

Farmers Insurance has a service that is like $2 a month that I added to mine.

 

I don't have any of my own of course, but after doing some shake-down runs on the hwy in a friends PFI'd 4th gen, we lost boost and pulled over. We found the intercooler discharge piping had popped off, so we just worked it back on. On the way home after going through an intersection, the car died and we coasted to the next street and pulled over. Popped the hood and it was off again, so we looked for something to help hold the piping in place since the intercooler wasn't secured and bumps would pull the piping away from the TB. First, we tried or thought at least about using my belt and then we found my friend had some CAT5 cable in his trunk(computer dork). We tied it around the FSTB and limped home. Talk about ghetto rigging it.

 

well Mine happend with my good freind following me in his new car. I slam the gas and next the car hits a wall no responce. I hear some noise from the engine bay. and notice that I ran over something but their was nothing in the road in front me. Then as it slide out of my car it wacks my friends front kit and puts a chip in it.TURNS out My dam intake pipe and Maf came off and fell from the dam car. I ran over it with the underbody and crush some of the maf and my friend finishes it off. Well at this point im going no where. So freinds was nice enough to give me a ride home to get a spare MAF.

 

Well mine happened again for like the third time now. I for some reason have the worst habit of aligning the clamps at the throttle body the wrong way every time!

Anyways start the car and start cruising to the street real slow, and then I get out to the street to take a left. Go ahead get a a clear spot and give it some gas and the pedal wont go down, I m like what the fu%* and then i think about??? The stupid clamp is in the way of the throttle and hits it keeping me from getting above 2000 rpm .

Makes a great mechanical reve limiter..