friend brought this to my attention and we batted back and forth about the pros and cons of this setup, but in case anyone else missed it figured id drop it in here and see what you all thought about it. obviously i don't think this is an application any of us would be too interested in, but cool someone is thinking outside the box.

http://ststurbo.com/home

 

I've read about it. There are a number of videos on youtube of cars that have this system on it. I was contemplating getting it for my Eclipse. Decided it wasnt worth the money to me.

 

yeah low psi, a pot ton of money, and some serious time; but still cool concept, needs some refining... the application on the two Z's were most impressive to me, but i've got a soft spot in my heart for any Z.

 

Saw this on HorsePower TV a few years back. They did this on a C5 Vette.

 

thank you, but no thank you

 

Interesting...but ehh. Not really worth it. It's kinda like putting a turbo in a Civic.

 

^ Agree with ya all, but i'm saying is once some kinks were worked out this could be a much better application... granted the piping length would still be a major down fall, but far less heat...

 

Are you talking about for Evos?

 

Here is what I see. In theory its pretty cool. I've seen these about 5 or 6 years ago and my conserns are this. You have 20 feet of ic pipeing, the filter sits right back in the area where the car gets most dirty being its for rwd cars, your limited to low boost, and last but not least the cost to do this. Being I have seen this in person I am not really impressed. There is a guy at work who runs one of these on his 97 camaro and I was talking to him about it. He was telling me how bad *** it is etc and when I went for a drive I wasn't to impressed with 5 to 9 psi on a stock motor. Car makes only 460 whp out of a 50 trim. Now for a stock lt motor thats pretty nice power reguardless being the cars only came with 275whp from the factory. I don't know what else to really say other then what I have stated and I really can't see the setup being that efficent at all.

 

Lag must horrendous.

 

Actually it wasn't to bad but you would figure that being he has a v8 and a 50 trim the thing would spool a ton faster then it did. Now I didn't ask him about tuning which could play a factor, but if he was dynoed at 460 then I am sure something had to be done.

 

A lot of the ones I've seen come with a piggie back tune, ya can use, they recommend getting them professionally tuned for better results. I agree with the low PSI and the cost being so high as a draw back but some of the kits have the air filter in the stock location and just run another ridiculously long pipe to the turbo in the back, custom piping obviously a pain to probably plum; but not all the kits have that draw back of being up under the rear end... course running that length has its own issues... And to "xTiCkxMYxLaInTx" no definitely not suggesting this for evos... that be silly. just an off topic for gains to N/A cars, fairly decent gains for some applications

 

Oh I was confused because you put it in the Evo X General - I guess for NA gains like this would be good. But for the price and such of getting both the car and this done... you could almost buy an evo or other turbod car I think

 

^^ Yea very true, i was more impressed with the concept... and i put it in general x just cuz, no real good reason.

 

Lag... shoot I wish I had the power on tap of a v8 while in vacuum. My old 93 nissan pickup was more a stormer down low than my evo is.