Tirefryr

Then you should have just posted the question and not the story of your issues. You opened the door, I merely stepped in. Like I said, take it however you want. If you don't like it, that's fine. If you do, even better. because i wanted everyone to know my situation and what some of my options were at this point. not all that other stuff... . . . And I voiced my opinions on your options. You didn't like it, simple as that.

Not bad for an ugly car. Hell I can take twins and build a 3.8 Buick or Ford and get the same results for about $30K including the car. It'll pull the front wheels too and look a hell of a lot better. I would still love to own Godzilla. Don't get me wrong, I would take the car and beat the hell out of it, it's just so damn ugly, I can't help but point this out every time I see the thing.

Then you should have just posted the question and not the story of your issues. You opened the door, I merely stepped in. Like I said, take it however you want. If you don't like it, that's fine. If you do, even better.

Actually his posts are full of advice. It's just most people are too but hurt and can't take criticism. It's the world we live in and the younger generation has been coddled and given whatever they wanted. They have a feeling of entitlement and are lazy and incompetent. The beautiful thing about this site is you get more than just audio advice. How you take it is totally up to you. If you don't like it, you can leave as well.

They all do Sean. You can't help anyone.

I know you'll take offense to this, but your parents are retarded. If you have bills to pay why are you not paying them instead of buying something you don't need and can't afford? That's part of the reason our society and country is so fucked up. You've just been taught a poor lesson on handling finances.

Not bad for an ugly car. Hell I can take twins and build a 3.8 Buick or Ford and get the same results for about $30K including the car. It'll pull the front wheels too and look a hell of a lot better.

Shit, I think it's easily distinguishable. Maybe my smell is keener.

I'd expect anywhere from 40-100HP at the crank.

You definitely can smell antifreeze. It's a very sweet smell. Get your nose checked Matt. The urethane seal on the windshield is extremely strong. The paint will give way underneath the adhesive or the windshield will break before the seal goes. Now this is assuming the installation was perfect. Is it the OEM windshield?

You're funny. You know damn well there is no "normal driving" when you have more fun under your foot.

No because I know how hungry boosted vehicles are. Granted it may be different on water. That's a whole different animal, tune, and drag, so I may be wrong, but with a vehicle, if you are into the boost, you are using up a lot of fuel. Keep in mind you are forcing air in and compressing it where as the NA can only suck air in. The more air you have, the more fuel you need, so the blower is always going to need more fuel and a lot more. I was summoned to bed about the time I read this, so you know what I thought about all night (well not the first 15 minutes). Went through a huge calculation to "verify" things this morning, but am missing some information to really prove anything out. I have some conclusions however. Currently my boat pulls: 5200rpm at 38mph using 32 gallons/hr 3420rpm at 25mph using 4 gallons/hr Conveniently it is easy to calculate the different fuel used as the ideal gas law is linear. PV=nRT so if we increase the pressure x% we increase our oxygen intake the same and therefore assuming we keep the same fuel to 02 ratio we are golden. That being said going all the way up to 10psi of boost yields 1.68x the gas at the same RPM. (24.696/14.696). Then the question becomes propulsion and can you pick a prop with the right pitch & diameter such that the rpm of the motor will change, but keep the boat speed the same. I am not a prop guy so I'll make the assumption that this is possible. I do know there are a crap ton of props and that mine has an extremely aggressive prop (14.25 pitch which means one revolution with no slip moves the boat forward 14.25inches - as a reference my bass boat has a 27p prop and tops out near 80 at nearly the same RPM's as the Malibu doing just under 40mph and has nearly double the pitch). The only other question is do you have the power to turn it? In order to get there, the boost comes into play. Here I eyeballed: http://www.powerblocktv.com/sites/bang4buck/0703/ and came up with a power table. From my table you can see that in current stock form my boat makes around 220hp at 3450rpm where I cruise at 25mph. Even if I only gain 30% from 10psi I would only need to be spinning 2950rpm with the right prop to maintain that speed. 25mph is where my hull is the most efficient. The spot that makes this near impossible to determine is knowing my current fuel consumption curve. I only have two points. 25mph at 4.5gal/hr and 38mph at 32gal/hr. Since that curve looks far from linear it is hard to tell what drives it. One thing is for sure though, with a 40% gain in power I should be making around 340hp at 3700rpm instead of 5200rpm. This should mean that I'd be an awful lot closer to the 4gph than the 32gph (and then of course we adjust by 1.68x) which seems to me that it'd be more efficient where I am using it. So that being said I do think I will see both a top end improvement and efficiency improvement through lowering the rpms while running at a real cruising speed. If I had more points on the actual consumption of my boat so I could determine a curve I could really dial this in including exactly how much boost to use for what prop and such...or so I think anyways. Holy Shit Sean!

Awesome!

Yeah the site doesn't list it, just saw a pamphlet at the dealership, not sure which year. Supposedly had slightly larger engine You sure you're not thinking of the S60R?

According to their website, it's still the same as the standard car, just with the ground effects, suspension and interior upgrades.

SO they finally made the R worthy of itself.

You must be smiling. I hate torque steer though. If you can, try and find a Speed3 to test drive. That thing will rip the wheel out of your hand. I loved driving that though. I preferred the C30 though as it was so damn quiet in that thing. I wish they made one in AWD and a little longer WB.

I would ONLY use an OEM replacement, but they may not be made anymore. Go to your local dealer and check.

Perhaps you are getting the wrong cable.

No because I know how hungry boosted vehicles are. Granted it may be different on water. That's a whole different animal, tune, and drag, so I may be wrong, but with a vehicle, if you are into the boost, you are using up a lot of fuel. Keep in mind you are forcing air in and compressing it where as the NA can only suck air in. The more air you have, the more fuel you need, so the blower is always going to need more fuel and a lot more. Probably asking something dumb but why does it seam that all my friends report better mileage after addind turbo to their vehicles. By all my friends I mean 2. In truth my buddy and his dad. He slapped on boost to his 5.0, and their old pickup. In both cases he claimed superior to 10% mileage. The truck more than the car however the truck was in truth not at all street legal and was only getting 7ish before the FI. The turbo will only work under load and I'm sure you know how it works, with a turbo you have more control and can limp around like normal without ever getting into the boost, so you fuel consumption is just about the same. That's a good thing to take advantage of... After removing the muffler I can easily ride around town at 40 in 5th gear. Cruising at 1200 rpm = good mileage The best for a turbo is a short, wide open down pipe.

That's a sin.

They are more efficient than a supercharger due to that, but just putting a turbo on won't increase mileage. You may get an increase due to the increased efficiency of the exhaust as most turbo exhaust systems are larger by nature and the turbine helps to increase velocity of the exhaust gasses. That would be where your increase would come from. Of course, once you get into the boost, that goes out the window and the computer begins to dump fuel.

That front end is HIDEOUS.

No because I know how hungry boosted vehicles are. Granted it may be different on water. That's a whole different animal, tune, and drag, so I may be wrong, but with a vehicle, if you are into the boost, you are using up a lot of fuel. Keep in mind you are forcing air in and compressing it where as the NA can only suck air in. The more air you have, the more fuel you need, so the blower is always going to need more fuel and a lot more. Probably asking something dumb but why does it seam that all my friends report better mileage after addind turbo to their vehicles. By all my friends I mean 2. In truth my buddy and his dad. He slapped on boost to his 5.0, and their old pickup. In both cases he claimed superior to 10% mileage. The truck more than the car however the truck was in truth not at all street legal and was only getting 7ish before the FI. They're either full of shit or they did enough work on the exhaust to increase efficiency, along with other things. Turbos can be manipulated more though. The blower runs off the belt, so as long as that engine is turning, it will make boost. The turbo will only work under load and I'm sure you know how it works, with a turbo you have more control and can limp around like normal without ever getting into the boost, so you fuel consumption is just about the same.

And that Yamaha was VERY efficient and was running wide open all the the time. What is it BTW? A Powerdyne?