Twin turbo start up
12-20-16, 06:39 PM
#16
If this is a stock motor, what a waste. Even with just 4psi on a single SC, the effective compressive ratio would be around 15.6:1 at sea level, a grenade waiting to happen on pump gas, IMO. Your going to be very limited on the amount of boost and timing you can run, so you've got all this pent up potential you can do nothing with. Sure, you can run water/meth injection, back off on cam/iginition timing, improved intercooler, etc, but again, not enough mitigative actions to turn it up. On a stock motor, my money would go with nitrous.
Yeah, its videos like this that just give tuning a bad name really - since no one has any clue (that I can see) what has been done to that engine.
To the novice, it looks like two (very expensive) HKS products, some piping and clearly there has to be an intercooler somewhere up front but in order for massive detonation to be avoided and melted pistons/con rods, you'd probably have to spend $20 grand on rebuilding the engines entire upper end, cams, cam gears, valve train, port/polish and then reinforce the entire lower, pistons, rods, maybe the crank and that's just the block...what about fuel, pressure gauge, wastegate(s) etc, etc, etc. The two chargers alone would cost over $10 grand knowing HKS.
I has a heavily modified MR2 for several years and the only reason I knew it needed forged rods? A million nimrods had gone before me and blown up their engines to find out what the weakest point was.
Perhaps this is the end result:
Last edited by yellow2112; 12-20-16 at 06:48 PM.
12-21-16, 12:29 AM
#18
LOL that's a promod. That's my buddy Josh "Squatch" Ledford in the red hat. He's the tuner for Ekanoo Racing. He flies to Bahrain frequently as he works for the Ekanoo's personal race team/shop of around 80 cars? Josh is part owner of Late Model Racecraft here in Houston.
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