why double blow an engine?

[Blue Bomber]

Originally Posted by FTE Ken Sort of like the ricers adding stuff that really doesn't add power, right? awwwwww, come on. it adds power, just not as much as it looks like it should. as long as it runs and drives, its ok by me. i like some ricers (thats right, im really an import guy. no joke) its just the ones that have nothing but a fart cannon and a cold air intake that i dislike. i would love to own an old import done up rally style.

[FTE Ken]

You know I was ribbing ya, right? It was just too easy! I have a feeling that it runs so poorly that it probably doesn't add any power, just sounds loud. I may be wrong though, I'll admit that.

[Lead Head]

He said in a later vid he took one of the blower's off to go racing. He said it is pretty much all for show

[Don S.]

Only two blowers will allow one to maintain ludicris speed.

[frederic]

Certainly it will add more power than a NA engine, but this clearly was for show more than anything else.

Hey, some guys like flame paint jobs, some like giant wings, some like shiny chrome stuff. To each their own, right?

I'm sure most of our significant others would rather us spend dollars on silly things like this rather than hookers and beer.

[nflfreak43]

Originally Posted by frederic

Certainly it will add more power than a NA engine, but this clearly was for show more than anything else.

Hey, some guys like flame paint jobs, some like giant wings, some like shiny chrome stuff. To each their own, right?

I'm sure most of our significant others would rather us spend dollars on silly things like this rather than hookers and beer.

kinda the same concept of adding stickers all over the place saying they have all these performance parts but its completely stock.

[enduro4231]

Originally Posted by Freightrain

"show"............is the ONLY advantage. Do you notice the very large lag in throttle response? He wings the throttle, then like 4 seconds later it finally revs. That'd take some getting used to.

Might look impressive, but really it's useless. Years back I saw one that had the two blowers hanging off angles from the intake, not one into the other. They both fed the motor separately. Makes for big "WOW" factor.

4 seconds? I think not. It was probably a half a second max.

[Zookie400]

ok, so it takes half a second max for the engine to rev, and it takes 4+ seconds for it to come back to the crappy rolling idle.

[Oversize]

Originally Posted by Blue Bomber

awwwwww, come on. it adds power, just not as much as it looks like it should. as long as it runs and drives, its ok by me. i like some ricers (thats right, im really an import guy. no joke) its just the ones that have nothing but a fart cannon and a cold air intake that i dislike. i would love to own an old import done up rally style.

You mean to tell me adding a spoiler wing that adds down force to the back of a front wheel drive car that doesnt even go fast enough to even gain anything from it doesnt help? Come on. I mean its gotta have some possitive attributes,... like an air brake on a jet.

[soondg]

I'm with you there frederic. Why spend perfectly good money on a hooker when after enough beer I'd go up, up, down,down down,down, down, lope, lope, lope, and take a lot longer than 1/2 or 4 sec. to recover, if at all.

Your right Ken, all types of additives and add ons and it still doesn't work right.

What was the topic?

I hate fart in the can ricers, I have only heard a few that I really thought sound good or run right. A couple of years ago on Rte.1 in Northeast Philly I raced two Honda civic Turbos and handily beat them with my sons bone stock, grandpa Tempo with the 3.0 Vulcan V6 with auto, I did manually shift it. I don't know if it was the car or the drivers, I suspect it was the latter. I did just recently meet a guy in the shop up the road from me that is running a Turbo Civic that he states is doing mid tens, The chute rig on the back does look cool, I'll probably go to where they race one day and check it out.

[tommy1005]

I had a Mazdaspeed Protege, with the 2.0 and a little turbo and it sounded pretty decent with 3" exhaust from the turbo to out the back, and the blow-off was pretty cool too when you got out of it......little car would run mid 13's when I could get enough traction to cut a good 60ft.

[Don S.]

Most races end at 110MPH with the Import fan boys.