This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

I came upon this video on street fire, its a turbo D16 in an Ek, if you listen to the turbo spool, it sounds great, however you can hear the lag and I'm just wondering if this guy used a way too big turbo or if he's not really pushing it, I mean if you look at his speedo on the highway shot, it climbs about as fast as a stock NA civic.

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player....C069A64D7A&p=2

Maybe he's just running low boost, but it honestly looks and sounds like stock.

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

wtf?

my n/a GSR would walk on him like he isn't even moving.

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

No kidding, my NA 300K B18 would probably do it, i've seen many turbo cars and none of them were this slow, I mean on a highway roll like that off 5th gear I can make it to 200 KPH in no time. this guy looks like he's having troubles hitting 160.

Must be a ---- tune using an AFC, and still with the speed restrictor in the ECU running 4psi and nothing else, I dont know, all I know is its slow for a turbo car.

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

hrmm maybe he's not getting on it .. thats what im thinking .. just out making some noise

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

Come on...you cant really think that, I mean the guy didnt wake up and say to himself "hmm, i'm gonna take my car for a spin and make some noise instead of getting on it, then post it on national boards and forums for the whole world to see, so they can make fun of me for not stepping on it"

Something aint right here bro.

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

he's on it, its just slow

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

Who knows...i see alot of show on that car though, and definately no go. :P

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

man, my slow ass solara could beat that ----. and this is one heavy ass slow mother fucker i'm talking about. :3

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

my co-worker has one.. man those things are slow :-X

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

maybe he just has one of thoes electric blow off valves and the exaust turbo spool thing. god i hate blow off valves that churp.. it sounds so queer.

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

i just re-watched it (and feel dumber)

1- it's a greddy turbo kit.. ::) 10psi of probably non-intercooled goodness
2- his shifts are slow as ----- can't even chirp 2nd? most turbo civics i know can't get an inch of traction after shifting to 2nd
3- he's gay

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

That didn't sound good at all.

I don't think that he was winding it out, nor do I think he was canning it all the way.

That looks like my car when I am just tooling around town outta boost. Sure the BOV goes off a little, but you can hardly tell it is boosted.

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

right? its almost depressing. but damn, mad room in the engine bay. maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad room

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

My old stock b7 would romp on him all day long

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

hotrex did ... 67% throttle pulls on 4 psi ... maaybe thats what that kid did .... :o

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

i couldnt hear his turbo. probobly because he has one of those greddy type Ricer bovs with the annoying mouse farts.
a buddy of mine had a garrett airresearch t3 .60 / .63 on his z6 and it was very loud like a jet.

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

I saw the specs in the upper left hand corner of the video and something caught my eye

Greddy turbo kit.

That's why it's slow, his turbo is probably the size of a baked potato.

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

the retard only blows off when hes by the camera

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

lag man up hill no help

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

It was probably just the shitty Y7 with the greddy kit with an FMU totally untuned :1

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

word, i couldnt hear the turbo spool worth a ---- either. the spool on my 60/63 is louder than ----. maybe it was slow because he had 20's on teh civic

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

And then there is this crazy fucker.

http://videos.streetfire.net/Player....E6E0E6760C&p=0

This is how you drive a turbo car.

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

now that right there^^^ was bad ------ assss

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

Re: This turbo sounds great, but why does it seem so slugish?
 

That volvo video was tight.

I liked the portable drag strip. Just a light with a trigger. O0