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Old 10-13-2002, 07:34 AM
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kkk04 turbo or Garrett?
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Old 10-13-2002, 09:50 AM
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Garrett...years ahead...and also used on the R8.
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Default put around 20k on a brand new K04 and its gone
they really dont like what we want to do to them...now im to buy a garrett...kinda a wast of a grand in 6 months? huh.. evoms sells k04's w/ all gaskets for around a grand
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so in other words; garrett better than k04!
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I have 60K miles on my KO4 that sees the track 3x/mo...Still runs perfectly
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Me too, nearly 40k on my K04
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blew a k04 with less than 12k. I have had the gt25 for 30k hard miles and it is still going!
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Old 10-16-2002, 03:25 PM
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Default Wait wait wait guys
were all of you with burned out k04's using turbo timers? that could be the problem
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