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Does this 'turbo' device help in performance?

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Old Nov 16, 2009 | 01:36 PM
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Lame!!! here, put it under my hammer
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Old Nov 16, 2009 | 01:40 PM
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You people are so cynical. The dyno doesn't lie. I put 4 of them on my car and it increased my RWHP by 40hp!
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Old Nov 16, 2009 | 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Ed Ramberger
Yes, that one looks like it's from a motorcycle
hey in europe we have cars that have less :P
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Old Nov 16, 2009 | 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by drjimmy
You people are so cynical. The dyno doesn't lie. I put 4 of them on my car and it increased my RWHP by 40hp!
why did you stop at 4?
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Old Nov 16, 2009 | 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by bill mcdonald
why did you stop at 4?
I had 6 of them but the gas tank kept overflowing. Made a real mess in the garage.
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Old Nov 18, 2009 | 01:15 PM
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I had a buddy buy a similar device. He claimed to actually experience a "seat of the pants" improvement with the installation. This one installed between the carb and intake manifold.

Aproximately 3 months later the old motor was getting tired and burning more oil, so he tore the engine down for a rebuild.

To his shock the device was gone! Apparently the constant pulsing of the intake cycling had fatigued the brackets and the motor had eaten all the device components. Sure enough the tops of pistons had marks and it appeared had hammered enough the top ring lans collapsed trapping to top ring.

Given this experience I would like to upgrade the answer from "No" to "Hell no don't do it!"
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Old Nov 18, 2009 | 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by vette079
Put one in the exhaust tip and see if the exhaust gasses swirl up better.
It might look like a jet planes exhaust.
Ya know if you installed 4 (one in each tip) you could have a kazoo quartet where ever you go. Now that would be a unique exhaust!
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