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93sc · 11-09-2005

Here's my experiance, and while it's a different platform, I beleive the concepts are the same. With the SC's if you brought it in to the dealer for service and you had a hitch on the car it voided your warrenty. The reason is that when under a prolonged loaded condition you ACT's would really start to climb and you could very quickly heat soak the motor. Racing stoplight to stoplight gives your ACT's a chance to come back down while your idling. If you can imagine running your car at as little as 4 or 5 pounds of boost for minutes at a time you can see how quicly things start to heat up, which makes for perfect conditions to start detonating.

That being said, you guys are running much larger and more efficent IC's than we have in an SC and your not making full boost just off idle either, so it's possible that you wont run into the same issues as quickly or maybe at all. I guess I'll just have to see what happens when I get mine and see how similar things act. But that would be my main concern when thinking of towing.

11-09-2005	#13
93sc New Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Mlps, MN Posts: 46	Re: Towing with a DSM Here's my experiance, and while it's a different platform, I beleive the concepts are the same. With the SC's if you brought it in to the dealer for service and you had a hitch on the car it voided your warrenty. The reason is that when under a prolonged loaded condition you ACT's would really start to climb and you could very quickly heat soak the motor. Racing stoplight to stoplight gives your ACT's a chance to come back down while your idling. If you can imagine running your car at as little as 4 or 5 pounds of boost for minutes at a time you can see how quicly things start to heat up, which makes for perfect conditions to start detonating. That being said, you guys are running much larger and more efficent IC's than we have in an SC and your not making full boost just off idle either, so it's possible that you wont run into the same issues as quickly or maybe at all. I guess I'll just have to see what happens when I get mine and see how similar things act. But that would be my main concern when thinking of towing.