travelor
Pro
A turbo engineer told me I could send in my turbo to get clipped and rebalanced to make it spool up faster. Do you think it would be very much faster? I have the mcx rear mount 310 kit. Check out these prices on turbo's www.turbochargers.com
Umm, I think who ever you talked to is a little mixed up. Clipping a turbo actually reduces back pressure, and when reducing back pressure you create more lag. Same idea as going with a larger turbine housing, the larger the turbine housing, less back pressure, more lag. You do gain some more top end though. Despite thinking that reducing the weight of the turbine wheel by clipping it would create less lag, you get more of a effect on lag (more lag) by reducing back pressure then the minimal weight you loose by clipping it.
Plus you need to be really careful with clipping a turbo, there are millions of dollars spent in r&d in building a turbocharger with it's respective compressor and turbine wheels. When you start screwing with what engineers have designed you throw off the effeciency, balance or what the turbo was designed for. You can gain the benefits of what clipping can do by simply going with a larger more effecient tubine housing.
Plus you need to be really careful with clipping a turbo, there are millions of dollars spent in r&d in building a turbocharger with it's respective compressor and turbine wheels. When you start screwing with what engineers have designed you throw off the effeciency, balance or what the turbo was designed for. You can gain the benefits of what clipping can do by simply going with a larger more effecient tubine housing.
travelor
Pro
Thanks zross1, I will leave it alone.
asrx600guy
Extreme
seams to me if you clip the intake, it would spool up quicker to some usable level of boost but ramp up slower from there
