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      10-15-2018, 10:47 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by 320IN54 View Post
Actually the Q50 Red Sports engines arent anywhere close to being as reliable as BMW engines. There have been cases where people blown their engines on Jb4 by itself. Apparently the engine isn't meant to handle any more boost over stock as the stock boost levels are already pretty high.
thats incorrect...there bunch of people running 420whp 500wtq on fbo without issues. There guys running 500whp on a e85 mix. Only cases where i heard of engine blowing was from bad tunes or guys treating their car like a rental car because its a lease. only issue they really have were sepertine belts coming off due to a bad pulley design on early q50 3.0tt models. The block is loosely based on the vr38 motor from the gtr, with the heads being different since its DI.

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