This makes me ashamed to be an American

[Akira0]

Someone decided to turbocharge their Camaro L28, made 14 feet of piping, and well, look where they placed it:

http://www.ufba.org/forum/attachments/93_Camaro_rear_overview.jpg

Yes, folks. Right next to the fuel tank. :wack: Another thing to note, is I don't think this guy has ever heard of, or know what rain is, and how water can be a pretty bad thing getting sucked into the engine.

Not to mention the pressure drop from the miles and miles of piping.

This, is why I am ashamed of American engineering....

It sort of looks like he is trying to turbocharge his differential. hahah

[Ant]

'Kin hell :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Akira0]

The American list or shame continues friends. Yes, this guy decided that his car didn't need NOS, but Propane:



http://www.lowta.cx/upload/p/proptanks.jpg

[don]

They aint real someones takin the piss. :rolleyes:

[Pauly_Boy]

were they drunk when they thought of that??

[Nismo_Freak]

Placed next to the gas tank is not a problem. Gas tank is a sealed tank, and you can heat it with a blow torch if you wanted to and it would not explode. It's a little thing we like to call oxygen that dictates that. Liquid gasoline is not flammable, it's the vapors that burn. You can drop a cigarette in a pool of gas and it would just go out. Sit there smoking next to it and the vapors will ignite. Any pressure gains in the tank are delt with by the emissions vapor control peices OR, you can remove the emissions and run your own collection tank up front. Either way the only way the tank can explode is from pressure, not fire.

Propane is a combustable gas that will lower the intake air temp the same as nitrous oxide. It's cheaper, more accessable (fill up your tank at a feckin grocery store!), and is a more passive gas than nitrous oxide (IE: not an oxidizer).

Rain = have another car to drive when there's a chance for rain. The filter would have to be submerged for the car to injest water. So as long as you don't go fjording rivers in the thing your fine.

You also fail to see the sleeper effect. People will hear the turbo, and the car will run quick. Pop the hood and voila, no turbo. However logic dictates that it's not the IDEAL place for such a thing.

It also eliminated the need for a turbo manifold. The amount of volume the exhaust gas occupies at the end of the trac is much smaller than the post port gas entering the manifold. With 5.7L of displacement you need a large turbo to flow it all, weither or not you use the compressor side flow to it's fullest or not.

Another thing... I don't know if you can even CALL yourself american! An L28!?!?! WTF is an L28... I mean come on man, they are on the other sides of the keyboard! It's a Z28, and it's powered by an LS1 powerplant that is at least 40 yrs. old in design. But it will eat the lunch of a modded 200SX in bone stock form!

I feel ashamed to be an American cause of people like you who can't even get a car that has been around for 30 years name right!

Now I'm gonna go get my Mustang GS :wack:

[dunc]

Originally posted by Nismo_Freak
Placed next to the gas tank is not a problem. Gas tank is a sealed tank, and you can heat it with a blow torch if you wanted to and it would not explode. It's a little thing we like to call oxygen that dictates that. Liquid gasoline is not flammable, it's the vapors that burn.

Its not so handy when you're tank forms a leak or splits in a crash though!

Dunc.

[Nismo_Freak]

Originally posted by dunc
Its not so handy when you're tank forms a leak or splits in a crash though!

Dunc.

Well anything can happen. Your fuel pump could spark, the rear end could break and drag the ground... ANYTHING can happen.

[Skip]

Originally posted by Akira0
Someone decided to turbocharge their Camaro L28, made 14 feet of piping, and well, look where they placed it:

http://www.ufba.org/forum/attachments/93_Camaro_rear_overview.jpg

Yes, folks. Right next to the fuel tank. :wack: Another thing to note, is I don't think this guy has ever heard of, or know what rain is, and how water can be a pretty bad thing getting sucked into the engine.

Not to mention the pressure drop from the miles and miles of piping.

This, is why I am ashamed of American engineering....

It sort of looks like he is trying to turbocharge his differential. hahah

Surely there must have been enough room under the bonnet! Makes you wonder where he is going to mount the intercooler...! :eek:

[siranui]

Also, air is hell of a lot hotter just above the tarmac. A higher place filter would have given a cooler charge temp.

Got to be 'the most expensive mod ever to be in the way of a speedbump' :)