Re: Boost

["Bob Wooten" <r71chevy@earthlink.net>]

do you mean that w/no backpressure the turbo is spooling even though the
throttle is closed?  & then when the trottle is hammered back on & the
clutch let out that it is still spooled up?  does no-one that drives a
turbo power shift?  

BW


> [Original Message]
> From: Jeremy Gonyou <jgonyou@hotmail.com>
> To: <gmecm@diy-efi.org>
> Date: 12/2/00 2:44:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Boost
>
> 
> >A blow off valve is to bleed air from the compressor spike when you slam
> >the throttle body shut. It's supposed to stop you from damaging your
turbo.
> >However, in talking with people who build turbos and have been in the
> >industry for a very long time, it's their feelings that the blow off
valves
> >available to people like us don't really serve that purpose because they
> >react too slow.
> 
> I think that the real reason people want them is for the improved
throttle 
> response between shifts.  The idea is that with a blow off valve your
turbo 
> is free to spool with the throttle closed and you have your boost
availabe 
> when you let out the clutch.  Kinda like toyota's cool bang-bang system :)
> 
> Jeremy
>
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--- Bob Wooten
--- r71chevy@earthlink.net
--- 71-91 Camaro


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