[quote]Mhatch wrote:
dhickey wrote:
They are only unreliable when you mod them. A factory turbo charged car should be almost as reliable. If you want reliable, buy the warrentee and don’t mod it.
Unless you were unlucky enough to buy one of the early 80s Pontiac turbo Trans Am, now that was just an abomination. They did not have the carburetor technology back then to build a reliable turbo car, but they did it anyway and they leaned out and went boom.[/quote]
Speaking of modern day turbos. Most Jetfire Turbo owners had the factory remove the turbo systems and put on a regular carb. I don’t believe the corvair turbos were all that reliable either. In my mind, FI is a requirement for a turbo. Unless you want to run pig rich.