Electric turbo
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Electric turbo
Ok, I have not been in the car performance arena for a minute, so I am not up to speed with performance parts...I just logged on and I was looking at the Ebay stuff and saw an Electric turbo.....it looked like an electric blower with a filter connected to an intake tube promising gains of 10 to 15%...for $120.00. Has anyone seen that ,uh,um,ur, high tech peice of go fast goodness??????here it is-> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=2550322710
it takes more than a plastic fan to boost your car. Needless to say, those auctions are SCAMS.
It's too bad many people arefooled and misinformed about these things. That's a big loss of money.
It's too bad many people arefooled and misinformed about these things. That's a big loss of money.
oh no doubt, there are people who buy those things. And thus more people try to sell those things looking for a profit.
Just remember, there's no cheap way in making your car faster. $150 can buy parts that will make a radio controlled car fast, but not a Civic.
Just remember, there's no cheap way in making your car faster. $150 can buy parts that will make a radio controlled car fast, but not a Civic.
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Rep Power: 0 Now I understand that it's plastic, but when compared to a turbo kit with no fuel controller and set at ONE PSI 
of boost it does the same thing. You would get some major gains from one psi of boost. 
Check this one out
It says that it pushes about 1 psi. DAMN!!!!
IN CASE SOMEONE NOW WANTS TO BUY ONE OF THESE KITS, I WAS BEING SARCASTIC!!! SAVE YOUR MONEY FOR A REAL TURBO KIT. THIS $100 WOULD GET YOU 1/29TH OF THE WAY TO A SF TURBO KIT!!!!
of boost it does the same thing. You would get some major gains from one psi of boost. Check this one out
It says that it pushes about 1 psi. DAMN!!!!
IN CASE SOMEONE NOW WANTS TO BUY ONE OF THESE KITS, I WAS BEING SARCASTIC!!! SAVE YOUR MONEY FOR A REAL TURBO KIT. THIS $100 WOULD GET YOU 1/29TH OF THE WAY TO A SF TURBO KIT!!!!
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I was simply showing gixxen how many parts are involved in a turbo with the pictures I posted up. If he wants to know each every part needef to boost our civics, then he should click on the group buy link
no need to start an argument bryn
no need to start an argument bryn
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Rep Power: 0 Ok but Bryn, $51 for a 1% gain....for $5 get a bottle of octane boost, take ur seats and if u have it, sub box out and theres your 1% gain...$46 left to buy stickers ....oh yeah dont they add horses too? ( old joke)
Hey...in theory the fan would work. If you could provide enough juice to spin a fan fast enough to force the air into the engine. The problem is you would need soooo much juice that you would rob your engine of power with the extra alternators you would need. These setups would probably restrict flow if anything...but hey...you would get a tornado effect like the other scam on TV :-)
I am intrigued by the electric turbo that garret is experiemnting with...I'm going to do some research into that.
I am intrigued by the electric turbo that garret is experiemnting with...I'm going to do some research into that.
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Hey...in theory the fan would work. If you could provide enough juice to spin a fan fast enough to force the air into the engine. The problem is you would need soooo much juice that you would rob your engine of power with the extra alternators you would need.
Hey...in theory the fan would work. If you could provide enough juice to spin a fan fast enough to force the air into the engine. The problem is you would need soooo much juice that you would rob your engine of power with the extra alternators you would need.
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make it stop. that brings electric turbo thread count to like 5146575435735466657 to date. gah. but hey, atleast you asked, and if youre serious about performance, learning the do's and donts is a great first step.
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