"Rock Bottom" (rockbottom81)
11/26/2013 at 18:45 • Filed to: None
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"Rock Bottom" (rockbottom81)
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... because if we are, then I want to show my favorite.
I've had a silly number of white cars (around ten), but I blessed/cursed this humble Saturn with a homemade exhaust manifold, IHI turbocharger, and methanol injection. It also got rear disk brakes, some cheap aftermarket rims, and a slight drop. It was the most ghetto turbo job I ever saw but it worked fantastically well and was surprisingly reliable.
I drove the hell out of this poor car for a few years before trading it in on a brand new Civic Si in 2008. It crossed the country twice and only the throttle position sensor really ever gave me problems (it hated getting methanol in it's 'trons). Oh, and it went through a cheap plastic Bosch blow off valve once every few months. But that was it.
Once in a while I would mix a gallon of toluene and a few ounces of ATF in with a tank of race gas and go scare people by shooting flames out of the tail pipe. It even scorched the bumper a little! I wonder what ever happened to my old Turbo Tupperware...
Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
> Rock Bottom
11/26/2013 at 18:47 |
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That...actually doesn't look terrible. Good job
Sn210
> Rock Bottom
11/26/2013 at 18:51 |
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Whoa, I traded on my SC2 for a new 2008 civic too...
TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
> Rock Bottom
11/26/2013 at 18:52 |
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What kind of power would that thing put down?
BeaterGT
> TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
11/26/2013 at 19:15 |
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100 to the wheels.
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Rock Bottom
> TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
11/27/2013 at 11:36 |
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Stock claim was 100 at the crank. It was a pretty low RPM engine. My butt-dyno tells me this thing made about 175 at 12 psi.
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Rock Bottom
> Sn210
11/27/2013 at 11:37 |
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... and you never looked back! Right?!
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Sn210
> Rock Bottom
11/27/2013 at 11:40 |
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Rock Bottom
> Velocity- Peuguette Connoisseur
11/27/2013 at 11:44 |
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Thanks! I got it right-ish purely by accident. I spent very little on it and didn't know shit at the time (thought I was sure I knew everything). I was a typical engineering student who thought he was already a seasoned engineer who could build anything.
If I were to do it over again I would have done it different! Lesson learned.
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TheD0k_2many toys 2little time
> Rock Bottom
11/27/2013 at 18:50 |
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Nice in a light saturn that would be fun