Sorry about the delay in the up-date but I've been a little cranky. It seems some think there's no way twin turbo's should cost so much because superchargers don't and it's so easy to put one together. Anyone that want's what it takes to put a workable twin turbo set-up in their car but isn't ready to reward the dude who figured everything out can have ALL the hardware it takes in a box (no instructions and everything cut and spliced to be within a foot of what's needed with a box of zip ties) for 6000. If you want this, don't be asking any simple questions like:
Where should we put the oil pump?
Where should we put the new fuel pump?
What kind of lines do we need?
Where do we put the relays?
Which terminals do we come off of?
How about the FMU, the extra fuel pressure regulator
and all their vacuum lines?
What kind of fittings are on the existing fuel lines?
Where do we get weather pack plugs that match the
factory stuff, you know the crank position sensor and
it's wiring harness plugs and the cam timing sensor and
plugs.
How about boost and timing and fuel management? Sure any
ole' shade tree mechanic knows about that. Doesn't take
but a minute to figure that out. Let's see... couple hours
for education, couple minutes to think it up, an hour or
two to order everything you need and an hour to throw
it on the car. Thirty minutes to tune the engine to
detonate. Oh wait a minute, take that off the tab, it
didn't happen.
Water cooled turbos. Wow! Water lines, fittings, tees,
hoses, etc.
How about oil to the bearings ?
Where are all these lines going and coming?
What kind of fittings on everything? NPT? AN? -3? -4?
-6? SAE? Tapered? Straight?
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Hey wait a minute, I'm not the one engineering this thing. You ought to talk to the ones that know what they're up against. What ever you do, don't ask them if they think getting a few hundred bucks a kit is worth hundreds of hours of their blood, sweat and tears. They might just figure it ain't worth it and I'm gonna have one of the very few Twin turbo beasts on earth.
For those that wonder if superchargers are better than turbos you'll have to ask Porsche, Mercedes, Audi, Saab, Volvo, Nissan, Mazda, Toyota, Bugatti, Buick GN, CART, F1, LeMans, Indy, ALMS, etc., etc., on and on.
Believe it or not, I haven't even scratched the surface of how amazing it is to boost the volumetric efficiency of our engines the way only turbos can. The area under our already astounding power and torque curves can be very broadly boosted if properly sized turbos are utilized. Many have already seen impressive dyno graphs shown by other turbo cars. "No strain all gain."
Sorry about the rant but I just had to air out some concerns. Progress is being made but it may be that too much time is being spent developing this into a real, easily installed, trouble free, precision, aesthetic system. Yes, he wants it to look awesome too. So far it runs, sounds awesome, looks incredible. Right now lines are being measured and fabricated to exacting lengths, final routing and mounting of accessory items are being done. This is a bit tedious and time consuming but adds a lot to fit and finish as well as reliability and predictability. After all a good show at the dyno and track are the goal. I will be out of town next week which is going to be tough, so I'll have to wait and report on findings after that. Thanks for lending your ear. Ask Rob for updates and let him know if you think it's worth his time. Later.
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