(car engine whooshing)
- The noise, the noise that like single-handedly
made, like, it is the sound that everyone wants.
And also probably like the sound that I could do
that you could put in the next like
Fast and the Furious scene.
It'd just be like
(car engine whooshing) and then
(car engine whooshing)
I think those are all actually pretty terrible.
But those little two squirly boys,
it's like everything, it makes you feel like
you start need to living your life a quarter mile at a time.
Or maybe you prefer like a little supercharger action
because muscle, you know.
Regardless on which way you swing it,
the moment you pick up a boosted car of any kind,
you're almost always going to do the same things
that about pretty much everyone has done to or with
their boosted car.
Because it's just what you do with a boosted car.
It's just like the things that everyone must have
one time in their life, like a college experience,
and never do it again.
I'm Alex, @Alex.fi on Instagram.
And today we're going to be talking about five things
every single boosted car owner has done
at least one time in their life.
No shame, let's go.
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It's a very heavy wall.
It'd be a shame if that were to come down.
(clanging)
When you've finally picked up a boosted car,
there's absolutely no way in hell that you didn't
immediately go to the world wide web,
- [Alex] enter in your year, your make, your model.
Right, your trim, and enter it with a few words
at the end called blow-off valve.
It's a thing, because we all know that
- [Alex] there's one tunnel
in your hometown that you want to roll through
and slam through gears, only to let off
to hear the lovely like
(whooshing)
Admit it.
Look me in the eyes and tell me that ain't true.
But it is true, because nearly every boosted car owner
will try to find a way to invest in a blow-off valve
because it just sounds so damn good.
(blow off valve releasing)
And you can't really go wrong with it
unless your car isn't supposed to or can't handle
a blow-off valve, which in that case I'm just sorry.
But here's where it can get a bit dangerous,
because can you guess what's usually right next
to the good old blow-off valve location in your engine bay?
A spot for a manual boost controller.
You know you've thought about it,
after all we've got a boosted car now bud,
anything is possible.
How neat would it be to say that
you're running 30 pounds of boost?
Who cares, because you're gonna do it for fun,
and then you're definitely gonna turn it down afterwards,
because you only wanted to see if it would work.
No, you're not, you're never gonna turn it down.
Not everyone is like this
- [Alex] because some people choose to keep
the internals of their car inside the motor
for more than 300 miles.
But nearly every boosted car owner will
end up playing with boost pressure in some way,
both in a bad way or in a good way.
- [Alex] Some cars come under-boosted for insurance
and liability purposes, while others come over-boosted
because those little tiny efficient motors
need all the horsepower and help they can get.
But the tricky bit will always be to do it the right way,
and sometimes the more expensive way,
which is kind of sort of unfortunate.
But when people want to try doing their boosted car right,
they say the word that make angels cry
and enthusiasts irate.
It makes the Facebook forums blow up,
and I'm gonna say it, I'm gonna say it.
I'm gonna say it right now, okay?
You ready?
Three, two, one.
(computer error beeping)
It's called staging.
Stage one, stage two, stage six,
I don't even know anymore.
But either way they tune their car because that's just
it's what you do when you own a boosted car.
It's just, you've gotta, and here's why,
and then they call it staging.
Stage one, stage two tune, and I've got
the stage two tune plus on my Subaru STI.
I'm gonna sneeze.
No I'm not.
(sneezing)
Just like how we talked about before,
a ton of boosted cars
- [Alex] come under-boosted for reliability, insurance,
and to keep those good old warranties in check.
So what should a proper enthusiast do when they pick up
a boosted car?
Ruin all of that.
Because that's, that (bleeps) lame, all right.
Tunes can open up the good old boost pressure timing
and some other really good stuff
to get some extra power with just a really much,
just a flip of a switch.
And everyone does it because it makes the car faster
and way more fun.
- [Alex] Audi A6, C5 platform, goes up 100 horsepower
and like 130 ft/lbs of torque
(engine drowns out speech)
And after all, I mean under-boosting cars are for wieners.
Now once a boosted car guy or gal has ended up
throwing the old blow-off valve on,
has ended up purchasing the good old classic APR tune
or just maybe snagged a manual boost controller
for just a little bit of fun.
But then, it's time to go do a pull.
Then another one.
And then when you wake up and you go to brush your teeth,
when you go to school, when you leave school,
when you go to work, in between work,
when you go on the breaks,
when you go and you want to do it
pretty much at every possible turn, nook, stop sign,
yield sign, imaginable.
Because everything is now a race.
Anything that has more than like 20ish feet of asphalt,
- [Alex] you have to because it's a boosted car
and it's what boosted car owners do.
Why else would you own a car that has a fun pull
once boost actually builds up?
Not me, because having a boosted car is fun,
and you just have to beat on it a little bit.
And that ends up going into the last thing that
every boosted car owner does.
Because guess what, there's so much more
you can do to the car.
It doesn't matter if you have a Ford Fusion
or a Buick Verano, I mean a boosted car is a boosted car.
There's manual boost controllers for everything,
blow-off valves for everything else
and tunes for almost every single platform
because the world wide web has made it so easy
to pretty much modify anything.
So you would just continue to modify it.
- [Alex] After all, it is boosted.
So then they pick up the air intake, aftermarket exhaust,
they go over and they decide to get
their aftermarket wheels, tires, and suspension
from fitmentindustries.com because they love Alex
and tolerate Dakota, and it's just what you do.
You get the wings, you get the aero,
you get the tinted windows, and you get all of that stuff
because it's just what you do.
Because now you have a boosted car.
Owning a boosted car for many people
regardless of the make or model is what ultimately
plants the bug that makes people modify
pretty much everything about their car.
And it's ultimately why you see so many different builds
out there on the road.
Because even though it's a little bit silly,
that little T on the back of the trunk
or the supercharge down the side of the Audi
is what convinces a ton of people to pick up a car
that they've never owned before,
because they want to give it a shot
and they figured that if they're gonna start
with something new, they'd want to start
with something that's fast.
And they associate fast with turbos and superchargers.
So that's just what boosted car owners do.
So if you own a boosted car what's the one thing you do
every single time you jump in the car,
every single time you pick one up.
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Peace.