curious

[Good Enough]

Now i have yet to pick up my new truck but i have been wondering a few things. Now i am no stranger to turbos and turbo theory but its never to late to learn. I was just curious if any one has used a regular turbo (stationary blades/vanes) and used a wastegate and boost controllor to controll boost? To me, it would seem as though using a normal turbo without variable pitch vanes would get rid of the risk of having them freeze up and having boost loss...

Also, has anyone hooked up a normal turbo timer to their truck? I have one on my SRT-4 and it was a cake walk to hook up. I have been looking at similar things for the diesel world and they are WAY over priced. I bought my Apex-i turbo timer for my SRT-4 for about 50 bucks new and it does the same thing...

Just curious.

Mike

 

[Zookie400]

i think you are sacrificing way too much performance just to be safe from sticking vanes, unless you went with an overall smaller turbo that would hurt your performance on the top end.

i know walt is unhappy with his big vaneless single, and was working on getting compounds last i knew of. walts truck (hivoltage on this forum) is very heavily built and scary fast but the lag was really disappointing for him.

here is the vaneless' lack of spool off idle:
YouTube - walt's burnout #2
and the year before with vgt:
YouTube - walt's tire fire

besides all that noise, if you drive it like you stole it a few times per week i believe everything cleans itself and prevents stickage.