BS or not?
BS or not?
Ok, I need some help here.
My friend has a 2002 Lancer OZ edition, auto. I have a 2002 Civic EX coupe, auto. I also had 2 passengers.
He tells me over AIM 2 days ago that he got a turbo. Wow, thats cool. So then I see him today at the mall. "Wanna give me a run?" "Sure" is my reply.
So we get on the highway, and there was no 2 lanes open, so he just went in front of me and we went in a straight line, a follow the leader type ordeal. Well, we basically kept an equal distance to 70, but by 100 he was probably a car length or so ahead of where he started.
Now, I have a stock civic. I dont think a stock civic would be anywhere NEAR to being able to keep up with a TURBOed lancer, regardless of what he was boosting.
So we get to the diner then, and I say pop the hood. "No." "Come on dude, just pop the hood" His response, "naw man, its dark out" I insisted, so finally he popped it. I peer inside, and see a header. Well, it looked like a header. Im 99% sure it was.
"You have a header" "Yeah, well he really jimmy-rigged the thing in there. Its done real ghetto." His response "Yeah, its really buried in there. You can't see it"
All I have to say about his "headered-hidden-turbo" is that it was....
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My friend has a 2002 Lancer OZ edition, auto. I have a 2002 Civic EX coupe, auto. I also had 2 passengers.
He tells me over AIM 2 days ago that he got a turbo. Wow, thats cool. So then I see him today at the mall. "Wanna give me a run?" "Sure" is my reply.
So we get on the highway, and there was no 2 lanes open, so he just went in front of me and we went in a straight line, a follow the leader type ordeal. Well, we basically kept an equal distance to 70, but by 100 he was probably a car length or so ahead of where he started.
Now, I have a stock civic. I dont think a stock civic would be anywhere NEAR to being able to keep up with a TURBOed lancer, regardless of what he was boosting.
So we get to the diner then, and I say pop the hood. "No." "Come on dude, just pop the hood" His response, "naw man, its dark out" I insisted, so finally he popped it. I peer inside, and see a header. Well, it looked like a header. Im 99% sure it was.
"You have a header" "Yeah, well he really jimmy-rigged the thing in there. Its done real ghetto." His response "Yeah, its really buried in there. You can't see it"
All I have to say about his "headered-hidden-turbo" is that it was....
:zbsflag:
I talked to him today. He said that they used the stock header with the turbo. I asked him if he even knew how a turbo worked, and he said "of course I do".
So I asked, does your turbo use a belt-system? "Yeah"
Does it run off of the exhaust? "No."
*sigh*
So I asked, does your turbo use a belt-system? "Yeah"
Does it run off of the exhaust? "No."
*sigh*
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If it's belt driven, then doesn't that make it a supercharger? By definition turbo runs off the exhaust fumes as where a supercharger runs off a belt of some kind, therefore there is a slight parasitic loss of power.....
It was rumored once that I had turbo, but i never started it, or mentioned it. Anyway, one night a guy in an SE-R with some ugly green underglow neons pulls up next to me in a parking lot where i was hanging out with some friends and checking out cars. So he walks up to me and askes very angrily "you got turbo?", and i was like "ya sure dude! i'm running 2 bars!". He then asked for me to open my hood. I was like "i was joking bro, my car isn't blown". Then he goes over to my car and is like "pop the f*cking hood", again I didn't want to be pushed around. Especially when it comes to my car. So i told him to "f*ck off", which was a mistake, this guy is pretty big, and i'm no fighter. Then he was like "f*ck you, i'll pop it for you" and goes to his car and grabs a tire wrench with a crowbar at one end and heads towards my car. About this time a couple guys in an 89 Rx-7 come running up right next to him and jump out and start backing him off. After they ran him back into his SE-R, they told me that he was a major a*shole(which i could tell) and that he refuses to believe anyone has anything better than his car. Which still doesn't explain why he would be so interested in my not exsistant blower. I guess some guys will just be like that. Moral of the story, don't bs about parts, even jokingly, and rx-7 drivers are pretty cool.
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Rep Power: 400 hahaha.... I have a similar story to tell from a long time ago. I think I posted it at S2ki.com but never posted it here. If I find it i'll put it up.
anyways :zbsflag: 
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Well thats waht I said about the so called Volvo belt driven turbo, but volvo insists that it is a turbo, but it really looks like a supercharger to me, damn swedish people and their crazy antics
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Rep Power: 397 I used to love it when I would bring my 94 civic to the car shows and I would pop the hood...People would come over the ther car and Look at my greddy stainless header and go look its got Turbo. I still to this day cant figure out why they think the header looks like A turbo....It used to just crack me up....cause it wasnt just one or two people....It was alot of people that would mistake the header for a turbo.
