- Okay
okay
ya know
(foot stamp)
I can't
really
fathom
that our accent
is anything to be desired in the community
of,
you no,
like
you know when you go to like a maybe
a nightclub, or a party and you're trying
to hit it off with another individual,
I just can't imagine that a mid-western accent
is the accent that a female erm or male or whatever,
would want to hear from a from a person
you know and I just don't think
that it would sound that good at any point of the night,
because I can't, I just can't imagine it's that enjoyable.
(rushing)
Hey guys and welcome to the second episode
of our new series 'so you want'
and today we're going to be talking about
the boosted car.
You luv'em ya hate'em
but you mostly luv'em and let's face it
they're probably one of the best sonic things
you can possibly do to your car.
(car engine roaring)
(car backfires) (screeching tires)
(engine roars loudly)
So even if you're a naturally aspirated guy,
you still get giddy when you hear the
big ole turbos spool up.
Let's take a trip back in time shall we
so you went to your local car meet in the park
and when you were there you were probably 16
with a Grand MG2 with cut-off mufflers
and you start walking around
and you're checking out all the cars
so far you're not impressed
until you see or probably hear
the SRT4 pulling up,
the owner doing typical SRT4 owner things
and revving the absolute shit (bleep) out of it
and flooring it all over because I mean
it sounds really cool and you don't really like care
about the car itself but you're wondering what
that beautiful exhaust note is actually coming from
cos it sure as shit (bleep) isn't coming from
that skittle
and it started to make you think,
wow that car can make really nice noises,
even if it probably doesn't look the best
and you're like I am going to do that too.
So when people think of boosted cars
all they really think about is the cool noise
that they make when they're spooling up,
but anyone with a brain would want to
sound cool and have a more powerful vehicle
and I mean some I guess maybe just want the noise
but I digress.
The turbo'd engine is arguably one,
if not the most popular modifications
in the car community today.
Once you get past like the fundamental starting-point
for most modifications.
Turbo-charging has been around
for nearly as long as the internal combustion engine
but the interesting thing is that
it would take years before anyone
actually decided to put one in a passenger car's vehicle.
In the early days turbo's were pretty dang big.
They were used widely in aircraft engines
but the benefits of turbo's couldn't
be denied and you can bet your
(bleep) they were gonna find a way
to fit these damn things under the hood of a car.
Which is pretty much just how anything works,
anything that is bad ass (bleep)
let's stuff her in the engine and if you really
think about it I think people actually
put airplane engines into cars.
If you try to sit and think what the first
turbo'd cars around you'd probably come up
with some early European classics like the Saab 99 Turbo
or the Porsche 930, that's a good one and
but really like don't be fooled
because the first car to actually receive
a turbo-charged engine is (deep breath in)
(high pitched scream) (yawn)
the oldsmobile cutlass.
That's right in 1962 GM didn't think that it's
3.5 liter V8 was pushing out enough
horsy's so they worked on a,
they worked with Garrett to produce
a Jetfire V8 which was (laughing) available (laughing)
option package on the F-85 Cutlass.
Now as well as trying anything new
this project didn't come without (tut) issues
putting turbo's on mass market car
made for some pretty interesting obstacles.
GM's Jetfire engine had a compression ratio
of 10.25:1 which means it was incredibly
vulnerable to engine knock because
well it just didn't have the engine
management that cars do today,
who knew that when you put a big bitch (bleep)
on a little guy that it just doesn't
really work together you know what I mean,
so somebody of that Oldsmobile had to think
of something and think fast
and their solution was the Turbo-Rocket fluid.
They basically they made a water meth kit,
the Turbo-Rocket fluid was just a one-to-one ratio
mixture of water and Ethanol.
So why didn't the engine catch on,
well that's a good question besides the fact
that it was hyperistacley extremely unreliable
basically it was just really pricey
and the $300 price-tag was more
than people could afford
and well I mean it wasn't the most
reliable thing in the world so fewer than 4000
of them were ever sold
but Jetfire sounds like something I would name a
RoomScape account so I'm pretty ecstatic about the name.
Even though the Jetfire didn't work
it didn't take long for the rest
of the auto industry went well like
maybe
we could do it better
and they did
they
well I mean well they tried
and then let's not get really
into the details but the second most
mass produced turbo-charger became
available and this time it was
an American 4x4 the International Harvester Scout
(shouts jubilantly)
hell yeah brother this bad-boy had a 2.5 liter 4 cylinder
and produced about a 110 base horse-power
and it didn't need no water meth injection kit
to work correctly cos this (bleep) tractor.
I'm just kidding that actually (laughs)
the engine actually did have a tendency to blow-up and fail
but it turned out that they had to build
a bigger naturally ass pretty motor
that could put out the same amount
of power while using less fuel
it was like efficiency was better
than a turbo it's kinda weird it was the early days
cos at the point when it seemed like
mass-produced turbo cars were a lost cause
and because of that the domestic auto market
wouldn't see another turbo-charged car for 10 years
turns out the American's did it first,
they just didn't do that good of a job.
After a few more failed attempts
at a mass-produced turbo'd engine
the Porsche 911 stepped onto the scene
into 1974 and not only that but during
it's time it was the fastest production
car in the world dubbed The Widowmaker
and the pair between exotic dream car
and turbo-chargers launched to make this beautiful
just
so
lovely
car
that
is just.... (exhale)
The pair between exotic dream car
and turbo-chargers launched the
turbo's career into production vehicles from that point on.
Just a few year's later in 1978 the Buick Regal
began coming in with a turbo V6
which ended up leading to the Grand National.
Fast-forward a few more years
and the 1981 Maserati was just like why not both
and decided to not slap one but two turbo's on 'em
and named them the very very creative name of Biturbo
and although it wasn't really a great car
by any means it was still the very first
twin-turbo passenger car.
The theory behind it was that if you
had two turbo's it would reduce the
amount of turbo lag then you had than
just one and while that's not exactly
what happened but it made a (bleep) ton of power
comparably so that's pretty neat.
Porsche figured out shortly because Porsche is Porsche
after that if you set up turbo's in sequential format
that you can indeed reduce the lag effect.
Over the past half decade turbo's
and turbo-charged cars have changed considerably.
Cue the cars of our, well my, childhood
you have the Cobalt SS the SRT4 the WRX the STI
the Eclipse and well I mean you get the point.
These cars were pretty all affordable
and when they came out you could just see
a ton of younger people getting their hands on them
and start to modify 'um so that they could
just so know leaving them so they
didn't leave um stock cos they're not a weenie.
Now with turbo-charged cars becoming common
that also grew the after-market community
on that specific platform of time,
you can now upgrade your turbo kits from stock
I mean say in a month's car
you could do all sorts of modifications
to make them just practically insane
but we should probably also mention the fact
that there are super-chargers as well.
So now what I mean when you really think about it
are turbo's like out of the game absolutely not
because you have people coming up with
electric motors that go with turbo-chargers
and super-chargers you've people putting in
independent turbos on different wheels
and all sorts of crazy (bleep)
and then you've people that just put like
10 of them on a car and see how fast
it could possibly go because force induction
is the future and it you don't think that
then you probably drive an American
domestic car that's naturally aspirated
that can spank every single time it runs up against
a turbo four cylinder I'm just kidding
I actually don't care I like American V8's
I put one in my car one time and even though
it broke a lot I did enjoy it but that's really
besides the point turbos are one of those things
that when you are going into modifying your car
that's naturally aspirated or if you have a car
that just came with turbos or bi-turbos
it's something that can be a lot of fun
as long as you do it right and if you are into modifying
them I wish you the best of luck
and if I have one tip to do with turbo-charging a car,
just one,
just one tip,
(hand slap)
if you don't follow the instructions
you will (raspberry blurt) fail I promise
you won't win there is no way the first time you
install a turbo-charger if you don't
follow the instructions point for point
that it will end up anything close
to what you want I promise I've done it before
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