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Re: The end of the Turbo era?

To: <GSMnow@aol.com>, <autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: The end of the Turbo era?
From: "richard nichols" <rnichol1@san.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 07:40:15 -0700
>certain mods, but requiring the stock exhaust all the way past the cat is
>absolutly ludicrous unless they are all moved down several classes.

Force ALL
>the ESP V-8's (Camaros Mustangs whatever) to run cast iron log manifolds
and
>a single 2 inch cat, then I might think this rule could work.


Both of your points above are the essence of a recent letter I sent to the
SEB (my second so far on the topic).  I think you said it well in a lot
fewer words than I used!

Your and my perspectives both were about ESP, which I took pains to point
out in my letter.  Forced induction cars (bear in mind this rule would apply
to supercharged cars, too -- *really* not fair to those guys) in other
classes must be the ones some people are concerned about, because I'm not
aware of forced air cars dominating ESP.

>An easier fix would be
>requiring every turbo car to run a pop off valve set at a particular
presure


This is the best idea I've seen yet.  Maybe when a "controller" has been
suggested in the past, I had visions of something else besides a simple
bypass/popoff valve.

BTW, though, if we're going to encourage such a gadget, we want to steer in
the direction of a bypass, not a popoff, valve.  Not the same animal -- the
bypass sends the air back into the system, a popoff vents it to the
atmosphere.  Venting upsets the fuel injection metering, bypass doesn't.
And a bypass valve will make the "unlimited IC" rule more useful.

>for the engine size, and or weight. They are redilly available, easy to
set,
>and totally reliable. Allow say 15 psi of boost for 4 bangers, 12 for

Richard Nichols
rnichol1@san.rr.com
San Diego, California, USA

86 Mustang SVO-1C:  ESP-->FSP
TSVO & TSOL Founding Member
SVO Club of America Member
Pinto Car Club of America Member

72 Pinto Sedan 2.0 3J - Original Owner, Restored:
@ the San Diego Automotive  Museum.


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