View Single Post
  #25  
Old 08-31-2008, 02:02 PM
6D6GOAT's Avatar
6D6GOAT 6D6GOAT is offline
Ultimate Warrior
 
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Redondo Beach, CA
Posts: 1,308
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom Vaught View Post
Vic, Turbos need LOAD as your test runs prove to spool properly.

Take some gear out of the driveline. Drop the rear gear ratio by a bit
like 3.55 gears. The car's street manners will improve greatly and the
extra load on the engine/turbo will allow making boost in fist gear at lower rpm.

People with lots of gears in the trans rarely put enough load on the turbo to make it work properly unless the vehicle is a semi.

Tom Vaught

i just had an idea....I wonder what what kind of boost i could get if i simply took off from 2nd gear....

__________________
Vic in SoCal. Follow me on Instagram- Cloud9orbust

66 GTO clone, 467 cubic inches of Turbocharged Multiport Fuel Injected fury twisting a TH400 into 3.90's wrapped in a 12 bolt posi.

My T56 Install
My Turbo Build
My Vortech Supercharger Build
Hyd Throw out bearing
Misc Build Pics

May the Karma Gods meet you half way....