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Old 03-13-2005, 01:53 PM
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That is the great thing about a low boost turbo. You don't really need to do much with the engines electronics, or with the engine. I was thinking simple throttle body as well. Keeping the boost down does a couple of things. No injector mods "I hope", and no need to get into elaborate boost control, fuel system, and engine monitoring systems. I had no idea that Pontia had built a turbo car. That is good to know. I had also thought of a supercharger, but in my past experience with superchargers, they don't do well with Hondas at all. I helped install a supercharger on a friends S2000. I can't remember the name of the company, but they are huge into honda performance. It just didn't have the torque to drive a supercharger, plus I don't want to sacrifice mileage. I'm going to check out that insight page, and see what he's doing. Thanks for the heads up!

I think your observations about d-injection, turbos, and hybrids are perfect. Someone will catch on. I'd love to buy a turbo hybrid off the showroom floor. I still have a nitrous system from my long dead Yamaha FZR-1000. It was good for 30 shot, but I kept it around 20, just because I didn't know anything about nitrous, and still know very little. It might be something interesting to play with on the car, but the cycle made over 130hp, and had huge carbs. I think 40mm each if I'm not mistaken. I wonder what a quick nitro burn would do in this motor?
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