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Well I decided to message the company that did the 2014 Corolla turbo with a CVT! They said that the CVT holds up well under 8 lbs of boost but they do not know the long term because they don't know the owner. They also did mention getting a transmission cooler added to it also. Other than that they said it works really well! Here's the convo if anyone is interested!
 

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Nice to see.
I was doing some digging on this forum a while back, somebody mentioned the CVT we have is similar to the Subaru CVT with a metal belt.
I've done a bit of research on my own, found a number of press releases and just various things point to the K313 and its internals
Does look like it's a steel belt which is nice.

Eventually when I decide to do something crazy with my Rolla, I might turbo it, lolllll

Start on page 60 for this: http://www.natef.org/NATEF/media/NA.../Toyota-ASE-IEAIT-Conference-Presentation.pdf
Halfway down the page is an image about the CVTi-S system: http://ractisforfun.blogspot.com/2014/04/ncp120-ractis-cvt.html
The K313 doesn't show on the Wikipedia page though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_K_CVT_transmission#K310_and_K311
 
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Wow that's some very useful information thanks for digging around for it! Now is their any information as to what the maintenance interval is? I'm doing mine every 60k which is just a drain and fill and idk if that's too little or too much. I wish Toyota would put this in their books because transmission maintenance is just as important as engine maintenance
 
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Could help as well if you built a turbo corolla in the same fashion they built the 1000hp minivan. lower boost and lower gears (lower ratios in out case) gradually increasing it as ratios in the transmission change. not that that power is even close to approachable but its just an idea.
 
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