Greddy kit & general turbo questions

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Jul 1, 2005 | 03:02 AM

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daacuradude

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Re: Greddy kit & general turbo questions

PS - you should hear how I talk to my friends - I'm not even remotely nice to them, like I am to you. kiss kiss

Yeah Joseph is a real dick ,and once you get to know him hes mostly just an -------.Either way the point is you ask dumb questions.You say you dont need a boost gauge but you want to know how much pressure drop there is thru your system

Maybey you should just guess and hope for the best since its a hand me down car and please do post pics after!!
P.S. JD just needs a hug,hes been working so hard on honda's new (V-tech) system that he dosent get out much.

Jul 1, 2005 | 06:47 AM

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D16Y8-Z6

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Re: Greddy kit & general turbo questions

Im a dick in person haha.

BTW Greddy kits are notorious for HUGE boost spikes.
My pals would spike to 11 and then die down to 5. =)

Jul 1, 2005 | 08:03 AM

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samson

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Re: Greddy kit & general turbo questions

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What's "elitist" mean?

JP

I still don't know.

JP

Jul 1, 2005 | 12:04 PM

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ABTsportsline

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Re: Greddy kit & general turbo questions

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asking whether the addition of an IC creates a pressure drop or increase is asking how a turbo system works? ok dude, sure.

Yep, it sure is.

Guess what? Corkshite Baloney's Maximum Boost (to my wallet) compendium of recycled factoids and gibberings covers just that - pressure drop across intercoolers!

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well i'm going to bed, no need to continue the drama. If you want to sit there and be a "i made it myself" elitist, thats cool man. I also see you are on the staff of this forum. Well thats comforting to know. Do yourself a favor: never work in a customer service department anywhere. why don't you go live in the mountains somewhere, and don't bother anybody. I think your wonderful "people" skills would be put to their best use there.

1) I do work in a customer service related field. I'm not nice to idiots there, either.

2) I do live in the mountians. I wouldn't dream of moving anywhere else.

3) My HMT Staff label is purely honorary these days, although I do get to terrorize the moderator's forum.

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i am sure when you were a newbie you were slammed for every question you had too, huh? right?

Actually, I'm an east coast boy who fell out of Triumphs and SBFs, and for some reason got into Hondas back '95-96. I did my first swap - probably the first in WNC - before I *poof* materialized on the bad intarweb circa '96. I already had a goo bit of grease under my nails, and most the stuff I'd done I'd had to figure out myself with no handholding from voices over the internet.

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One last question Mr. Joseph Davis. What do you contribute to this site? do you add anything constructive here? do you help other people? or do you just post comments telling people how stupid they are, or calling them newbies?

Has it ever occurred to you that sometimes what you need to hear is what you least want to? Your general level of knowledge is lacking. If you possessed half of what you needed, you would have stumbled over one of my various writeups. Most of the latter ones are to found on pgmfi.org's Theory forum - you might like to check it out.

In a nutshell, whenever someone needs something tested by a professional - with my schooling/degrees in automotive technology, EE, welding, etc, I'm about as professional as it gets in the DIY performance arena - so that you can cut through all the yammering and fuzzy logic of the amateur beta testers, it comes to me. All the old Ghettodyne testing was done on my CRX, which later Jason Parker inherited and took several orders of magnitude beyond what I'd had a hand in. You can thank me for Uberdata up to version 1.2. Dan Nicoson's electronic water injection controller will be on my SOHC when it's assembled for final beta testing before release to the public in kit form, and Blundar's electronic boost/traction controller will be on my CRX for beta testing before eventual retail sale.

I've tuned more cars than you'll own in your life.

If I'm cranky, so what? I'm doing this for free. I'm not trying to tell you that you need something based solely on the fact I'm trying to sell it to you. I share everything I know - but all you want to know is page twenty-seven of Maximum Boost, and resent the fact you've been told to patch the holes in your knowledge by reading a basic primer on the subject of turbocharging.

PS - you should hear how I talk to my friends - I'm not even remotely nice to them, like I am to you. kiss kiss

with such a wealth of knowledge up there you should be happy to share instead of shunning people away man....
at least provide a hyperlink or something to the information. i believe you that those books tell all that information, and thats great, but honestly i don't care to become a turbo engineer nor a mechanic. I was just curious to know one fact, if i really felt like becoming a master on the subject i probably would buy the book. But honestly i am not passionate enough about it to warrant spending all that time and energy on it. the setup is already on the car, and has been for awhile. i am not changing anything, not going to "work" on it. I just wanted to know because i was curious.

My point was in the time it took you to make several posts criticizing me for "asking stupid questions", someone responded to my question with all of 2 sentences. THAT is my point. And where i come from "stupid" questions are much more stupid than "is there a pressure drop across an intercooler." if this is a stupid question, i'm afraid to even ask what some of the other ---- that goes on here is...

Its also great that you figured out everything yourself as you went along, but maybe in your infinite wisdom you would realize that not everyone is good with their hands nor mechanically inclined. That doesn't mean they don't want to be, they just can't. I'm one of those people. I can read books on theory all day long, but i can't do this stuff. At least i acknowledge that and am not afraid to admit it. I am sure there are a lot of people here who "talk the talk" because they understand the theories, but they don't even do their own oil changes.

whatever, my question was answered, so we'll move on.

daacuradude - i still don't know why everyone makes such a big deal about my boost gauge comment. I can't remember a factory turbocharged car that came with a boost gauge. Its an option on the STis and WRX's, but its not standard. Its not even an option on Saabs, VWs, the old Eclipses, etc.... so if none of these cars had them, does that mean the manufacturers were all wrong? that was my line of thinking, and if i'm wrong, i'm wrong. i'll get over it, will you guys?

i have no idea how to end this, so i'll just click "post"

Jul 2, 2005 | 12:47 AM

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ABTsportsline

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Re: Greddy kit & general turbo questions

FYI for anyone else that may want to know more technical information on intercoolers and pressure drops, but doesn't want to buy a book, you can read the information online here:

http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/turbo/intercooler.html

i posted the same question on another site, and instead of flaming from other members i got this link. Good read, and it didn't cost me money to read or learn it.

Jul 2, 2005 | 12:58 AM

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Tom-Guy

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Re: Greddy kit & general turbo questions

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with such a wealth of knowledge up there you should be happy to share instead of shunning people away man....
at least provide a hyperlink or something to the information.

You're right, I'm sorry.

HERE.

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i believe you that those books tell all that information, and thats great, but honestly i don't care to become a turbo engineer nor a mechanic.

Then buy a factory turbo car, or pay someone else to be your turbo engineer or mechanic. Because, bro, you've now got yourself a bona-fide "tuenar ride" and things are going to require you either 1) educate yourself and become a turbo engineer or mechanic, or 2) pay someone to be that for you. Trying to straddle the fence is going to get you 1) fucked, or 2) no second alternative.

Sorry if it was a rude awakening.