yeah turbos havent had noticeable lag for a little while now and if you get a duel turbo setup it is almost non-existant, which is why some funny car teams are using dual turbo setups(two MASSIVE turbos, rather than one MASSIVE supercharger). you lose a bit off the line, but the turbo makes up for it later
not that it would be that easy to fit dual turbos in our cars, though im sure it could be done. but oh my god the power....i think i just made a mess.
lol. one thing i just thought of... with the tails like that, the 2nd gen Avengers actually look just a little bit more like a 1st Gen Avenger.
lol it does a bit. i agree that you should black out the third brake light too. and you should really check on the legality of tinted lights before you get into the sealer though. unless you don't care at all then procede, enjoy the tickets, i know quite a few people that would sacrifice that much for something as simple as tinted taillights, or underglow, or tinted headlights, or the UBER-bright headlights, or___, or___, or____,etc....fill in the blank, im sure we all know people like this though.
2500 rpms....how do u manage to get 2500rpms = peak efficiency?
let me rephrase that, engines like to run at 2500, anything lower and they try to run rich, anything higher and they try to run lean(computer control and better technology has made it less obvious, but its still there at some level)
or at least in my experience, i have an old nova with an exhast leak(right infront of firewall so you could smell every drop of exhaust, which is why i drove with the windows down most of the time) and at 1500 you could smell the unburt gas. at 3500 you could definitly tell it was leaning out...and i had a corsica, that had the same problem(though it didnt have a tach you can still tell) low RPM rich, high RPM lean. 2500 was the magic number for 2 cars, or maybe it only chevys. or maybe my chevys were weird, i know the nova is, and the corsica was a POS. sold the corsica for 300$ and ripped those people off. eh, it was a good beater. ah, nostalgia. anyway, 4000-4500 are ussally the most powerful, and 2500 is generally the most effecient. again this has been my experience. i could be way off. but i like to think that my experiences have been worth something.
well the term is "puddling" but it got its name(im guessing) from what gasoline does in older V engines(before fuel injection). i was just saying that the term SHOULD be collecting. just an observasion to prevent the confusion that a gas magically turns to a liquid. though we all know how magic works on cars, like those stickers that add horsepower. and the taller the spoiler the more magic it has in providing more downforce it has, even if its only held down with wood-screws.
I have a few no speed limit autobahns here. The traffic flow allows for high speed driving. I recently got 508 miles from one tank. That was a lot of cruising at 75mph. I will just do a 3 mile sprint or so.
oh how we americans envy you and your autobahn... i want to go fast and not be worrying about getting a speeding ticket. 75 is about the FASTEST we can go around here, and from what i hear you go 75 on the autobahn you're one of the slow people. ah...autobahn, someday ill fly to germany and go 160 and wave at the cop as he does nothing. well ill let the passenger wave, ill drive. last thing i want to do at 160 miles an hour is take my hands off the wheel.
and it only happens when im sitting at stoplights, and generally when its cold.
i suspect a bad connection somewhere but i can't find it. i have a wiring diagram and there is a connector where the o2 sensor signal wire is sitting right under(or over, i cant remember) the EGR signal wire. and its a J/C 3 on the diagram and it says its under the eng. compt. relay. but i can't find the connector, i suspect its hidden in the firewall somewhere, but the short could be anywhere where those two wires touch.
anyway would you guys support my hypothosis or do you have any other suggestions before i start tearing apart(carefully, of course) wireing bundles trying to find the short. the main reason i think its a short somewhere is how specific the engine code is to say "o2 sensor short"
oh and just for anyone who's wondering i go to school for automotive service/managment, and thats where i got the wireing diagram and the meaning of the codes. its a handy resource!!!
There is a problem with it. Most people dont notice it till the "IDIOT" low oil pressure light comes on. If you have an aftermarket oil pressure gauge and no windage tray its clear when you corner.
Its usually a problem for people that dont keep an eye on their cars. Low oil would mean its even worse.
If your car doesnt leak that bad and you dont take corners at 60mph, you probably have not noticed it.
yeah my car has a slow leak and by the time i need to change my oil if i take a hard corner my oil light will flicker a bit, nothing too bad about 1/2 a quart per 4000 miles.
and sharp curve at about 30-35 that does it, or a right angle at 25-30
peak effeciency is (ussually) ~2500 rpm, so no matter what gear 2500 is going to be where you want the needle to sit. and alot of TOTAL mpg is HOW you get to the speed. if you floor it to top gear and then sit it at 2500 your total MPG is gonna suck, if you slowly accellerate to top gear your overall mileage will be better. for example i drove the same speed for two gas cycles, but i accellerated differntly one week balls to the wall up to 65(fun as hell btw) got about 24 mpg, accellerated slowly the next week(zzzzzzzz) and i got nearly 30 mpg, yes wind comes into play so 1st gear at 2500 gets better MPGs than 5th gear at 2500, but thats a slow way to get where you need to go.
this one does work. It just cant be used in long runs or constantly it has no parasitic drag and is pretty efficient but it eats batteries up like a fat kid eats cake.
This is out of Turbo (the magazing doing the article on the superchargers as another means of boost to a turbo): "And then there's the electic Eaton supercharger. Thomas Knight offiers its version of this. The ESC 400 supercharger powered by three electric motors that, toghether, produce roughly 18 hp; this is power that isn't taken from the crankshaft. An auxiliary battery pack with four small bateris provides the power. The biggest advantage here is that boost is completely independent of crank speed meaning you can get full boost whenever you want within .3 seconds of hitting the switch. If unregulated though, it's possible to hit more than 28 psi of boost in a 4 cylinder engine at low engine speeds." it goes on to say that as speed raises boost lowers but thats a given, they say the biggest drawback to this thing is its power consumption...a fat kid and his cake...they say the max amount of time this thing can be on is about 15 seconds on a 12 volt system if you dont want to eat the battery down to nothing (it can run longer but it will drain the whole battery) Also at least 20 mins of drive time is needed to get the battery back up after just 15 seconds.
So i would say it works pretty damn well and there isnt a problem creating boost.
NOS is flamable, in liquid state it isnt once it is in a gas state it is highly flamable. also those tanks DO NOT SMOKE NEAR THEM(amd run your ass off if someone is) they are full of 100% oxygen under pressure...the presence of a spark in that or to much heat will cause an explosion, oxygen by itslef isnt flamable but under pressure its another story.
lol...fat kids and cake....
technically Mo'Joe is right, but in the presence of the smallest flame the flame consumes it, in the presence of 100% oxygen or nitrous, expecially if its under pressure, the oxgen/nitrous will burn on its own. again apollo 1 astrounauts, 100% oxygen enviornment, add one electrical spark and the oxygen burned them alive.
It floods the entire runner full of NOS and then when the valve opens it floods the piston with RAW NOS and the resulting flood causes MASSIVELY lean condition... You can guess the rest
so its not really "puddling" more of collecting its just called puddling. right?
yeah i've got tons of them, i swear if the chuck norris jokes didnt start at my highschool, they got a big boost from my highschool... the local physics teacher has instructional videos and the guy's name is Mr. Physics, but i swear he's chuck norris's twin brother. always waited for him to roundhouse kick someone...never happened
also after i posted i got the urge to find more and found a site that chuck norris himself picked his favorites...remember they arent chuck norris jokes, they are chuck norris FACTS http://chucknorrisfacts.com/
oh and JBI nice sig is that a real pic or photoshopped? cause if thats a real pic, nice work, if its photoshopped, nice work....
Anson, let me give you a bit of background on Jeff AKA Bad Venge. He's an electrical engineer, he knows his excrement. He may come across short and might not give a long explanation but that's because, he knows most people won't read everything he writes, and even fewer will probably really get a good handle on what he write.
Bottom line, if you want to spend the time and money just to learn BV is right, the go ahead, but I have yet to see him make a firm stand against anything and be wrong.
ah, its hard to pick out the true experts from the people that just think they are. so i tend to want a long winded explanation, to kind of back up the expertness(is that a word?) just sort of testing the waters as it were. i just get tired of people who don't know a exhaust manifold from a nitrous system telling me whats what, so i tend to be skeptical of short answers, confusing rightful confidence for a lack of knowledge. i mean i can pull out "it doesnt work" all day long and not know what im talking about. its harder to pull "it doesnt work because....".
sorry, Bad Venge, for doubting you. my only defense is "im new" and that isnt a good excuse. as you seem to be one of the resident experts i shall take your word as good as fact in the future.
Yeah I get what your saying... I'm sure BV will be here making it super clear sooner or later..
I'm still puzzled on how the flows of fogger and direct port differ and what would be more benefcial on our engines.
i can't help you as far as which will be more benefical for our engines, but the single fogger should do ok, considering its a whole lot easier to put in, and doesnt require drilling into your mainifold(ussually its a plate that goes behind the throttle body) as opposed to the direct port where you have to drill one hole per cylinder ussally.
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