Has anyone here road raced w/ a turbo before?
 

I did a homemade turbo set up about a year ago, and I'm going to do another one soon here...but I've gotten into road racing, and wondering if anyone here road races w/ a turbo car...mainly wondering about honda's, but others as well. I haven't seen too many turbo honda's at the tracks, but there's been a couple, but it seems common to see factory turbo'd cars there (eclipses, 240's w/ sr20s). Anyways, I'm wondering if you had any problems? The only time my car hit the track turbo'd was on lunch laps, about 30 mins long, and i wasn't pushing TOO hard. I think just as long as you run a safe tune the car would be fine...maybe invest in an oil cooler too? anyways, tell me what you got.

Re:Has anyone here road raced w/ a turbo before?
 

I'll be doing it this summer... a buddy of mine was running a boosted D16z6 Hatch road racing last summer, everything went pretty well. just had the boost set down to a more respectable level. ;)

Re:Has anyone here road raced w/ a turbo before?
 

Yea, that's what I'm thinking, richen it up a little and what not. A buddy took his rex out w/ the greddy kit on there, only fuel mods were a walbro pump...I have no idea how the ---- it survived, but it did. I'm just afriad of my stock rods, but I guess as long as the power is under 200 it'll be fine. For those of you who haven't seen d series rods, let me enlighten you with this comparison:
http://www.norcalcrx.org/spoon2/pics/conrod1.jpg
http://www.norcalcrx.org/spoon2/pics/conrod2.jpg

Yes, that's a sharpee pen. And if the pics are too big, feel free to bitch slap me.

Re:Has anyone here road raced w/ a turbo before?
 

dam no wonder they fucken break,sheeesh and heres a big slap to your left cheeck for those huge pics. :-X

Re:Has anyone here road raced w/ a turbo before?
 

haha onyx and I went to a salvage yard today and there were rods for big block v8s there that had rods as thick as my fist (not saying much but hey...) thats just sad... I'm sure as hell getting a new set of rods now :P

Re:Has anyone here road raced w/ a turbo before?
 

I'm just going to beat the ---- out of the stock ones.

Re:Has anyone here road raced w/ a turbo before?
 

fucker you stole my sharpee didnt you??? seriously i cant find it :-\

damn those pics are big...you would get a bitch slap, but i got DSL so they loaded quick. cant you resize them though?

Re:Has anyone here road raced w/ a turbo before?
 

well.....i COULD, but then I'd have to launch the program, resize the ----, save it again, and THEN upload it again.

I'll give you your sharpee back in a trade for the non-datalogging zdyne :)