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Originally Posted by 93sc
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.
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this brings up a conversation I had with a friend/mechanic a little while ago.
i said, the typhoon or cyclone can't tow anything and has a haul limit of 500lbs. He said the reason was what you said. Heat, the typhoon or Syclone has the power and hardware to tow, but the heat created would cause problems and big time premature failure of many parts.
his idea was to use a nice liquid i/c, a boost controller(drop the boost when towing to create less heat) and big tranny cooler.
one of his friends tried it in the hills of colorado and said it worked find when towing his snowmobiles. Of course who knows for how long that truck ran, it popped the tranny at a track about 8 months after.