I had not considered that, but solid point.
It's fair that you get a pass - sometimes when you get a new car you don't quite know the limitations and you learn the hard way... One day after getting the Viggen I tagged a curb at work. Learned my lesson. This is not even remotely the first time she's run the Aero into something. I hope taking a grand out of our finances will be a lasting reminder that it's not okay. Don't. Hit. Things. Failure is punishable by Hyundai!!! (Although I do keep eyeballing a Juke Nismo across the street...)Srsly, know the feeling on the bumper and "this is why we can't have nice things." I just had to replace the silver Z's side skirt after someone ran over a curb with it. [In addition to all the clips used to fasten it, there are a good 8 bolts holding it in place - ain't gonna fall off with cone contact at autocross, like the ND Miata is prone to do.]
I'm on board with that! I haven't ever encountered such an elusive problem before. I have had a fair number of turbo cars, and I have accumulated a fair number of tools to help find boost problems but they're all proving useless. Admittedly, a big part of the problem is that XR4Ti's have crap throttle bodies that leak boost, so I have to "listen around" the throttle body, but the major issue is that this problem comes and goes rapidly. I can't even rationalize what component would cause that. It's like a solenoid randomly opening and closing... but I don't have any. I thought maybe the bypass valve, but I swapped it with a known good one... and, really, if the bypass valve was leaking boost there would be a pretty funny sound from the air filter. So, I don't know. Now I'm working by process of elimination. We'll see how that goes.Learn lots on solving that boost problem so you can help me diagnose and fix my friend's Supra this fall. The second turbo can't hold boost.