I was thinking about this earlier and I know there are a lot of people who are very knowledgable with Turbos and rotaries.
---This is not a help me thread because I am not in the market for a turbo/supercharger, yet.---

I was wondering if you had a brand new engine and you installed the turbo on it (0 miles on the engine) and did that easy break in period with it installed, if it would increase the reliability of the engine because thats all it's known is to have the boost there. Of coarse I suppose it boils down to ECU and stuff then. But if you just put the engine management it came with and didn't tune it because you were going to be happy with the gains. I'm thinking this because with the engine brand new and never been started (with the ECU for the turbo), it would start out controlling it turbo'd.
I'm sorry if this is unclear because it's really difficult to try to put what I want to say on here but maybe this example would help.

Example: You buy a brand new engine after yours blows and you have the GReddy on order, or have bought it and have it waiting. Then you install it when you get the new engine and start from zero with both the turbo and ECU already controlling the engine. There wouldn't be a change suddenly for the engine to handle, is what I'm thinking.

I thought that doing this would increase life span or reliability.

I'm probably really wrong on this, but maybe someone could shed some light for me.

Thanks for those who could possibly answer the question.

 

It wont make it last longer if thats what your getting at. Breaking the motor in with or without the turbo shouldn't change the life span.
I dont know how the Greddy works on these cars. But the rx8 has pretty good compression so if your driving light for a break in you shouldn't really ever see any boost in the first place.

 

Okay thanks, I was just thinking about the ones that come factory turbo and how that worked so on and so forth.

 

Suggestion - don't call the thread "Question."

Call it "Question about New engine+turbo reliability/life. "

Just like when you send someone an e-mail, put the point of the e-mail in the subject line, that way they'll see it, think it's important/interesting, and open it.


-Kabong

 

I have no words...................

sorry

 

I actually tried to do that and it stayed the same. I'll try it again and attempt to keep the thread along because I want like a mechanical answer, kind of. Like a reason why or why not it would/wouldnt help.