turbo'd automatic
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RE: turbo'd automatic
ORIGINAL: shnormo
When was the last time you've driven a turbo'd car. Technology is amazing these days beacuse the waste gate stays open when there is low pressure. So when you mash down on the throttle it closes so it starts spooling a lot sooner. With a boost controller, you can have spool up as fast, if not faster than a super charger. Turbos take less horsepower to run also. Turbos are the best way to have a power adder. How many cars come stock with a super charger? Pontiac GTP, Ford F150 Lightning, Ford GT, and the Impala SS.
What comes with turbos? Evo VIII, Fox chassis mustangs had an option for a turbo, Desiels have turbo chargers and not super chargers. Drive the Diesel Cummins or the Powerstroke or GM Desiels all have turbos. Turbos are now the power adder of choice these days. You have more room for intercoolers and you can have your CO2 coolers and your nitrous on the intake by the throttle body. You can change a turbo out just as easily as 9 bolts and 6 hoses. If you get a ball bearinged turbo, it'll last you a lot longer than a supercharger. The screw impellers on the roots style blower ware out and allow blow by and leaks oil from the throttle body. (F150 lightning)
When was the last time you've driven a turbo'd car. Technology is amazing these days beacuse the waste gate stays open when there is low pressure. So when you mash down on the throttle it closes so it starts spooling a lot sooner. With a boost controller, you can have spool up as fast, if not faster than a super charger. Turbos take less horsepower to run also. Turbos are the best way to have a power adder. How many cars come stock with a super charger? Pontiac GTP, Ford F150 Lightning, Ford GT, and the Impala SS.
What comes with turbos? Evo VIII, Fox chassis mustangs had an option for a turbo, Desiels have turbo chargers and not super chargers. Drive the Diesel Cummins or the Powerstroke or GM Desiels all have turbos. Turbos are now the power adder of choice these days. You have more room for intercoolers and you can have your CO2 coolers and your nitrous on the intake by the throttle body. You can change a turbo out just as easily as 9 bolts and 6 hoses. If you get a ball bearinged turbo, it'll last you a lot longer than a supercharger. The screw impellers on the roots style blower ware out and allow blow by and leaks oil from the throttle body. (F150 lightning)
The other aspect if BB (ball-bearing) turbos. The actual reason people have (companies) gone to BB turbochargers is that it lowers resistance. Less resistance-quicker spooling. If you're maximizing the ability of a setup (motor) to spool a large turbo going BB might be beneficial by a couple of hundred RPM, HOWEVER, the tolerances with BB turbos are that much tighter that contamination can cause them to fail eariler then conventional bearing turbos and on top of that, unfortunately, a lot of BB turbo vendors will *NOT* rebuild BB turbos whereas they with conventional bearing turbos.
End result---if you need BB turbos to gain that extra couple of hundred RPMs in spooling time, go for it. Otherwise, boost is just a downshift or .2 seconds longer away.
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