- Everybody loves boost noises.
Who doesn't?
Honestly, it's like pssh, pssh.
Waaa-psssh.
Like, we've made the noise, you've made the noise.
I make a gamble on the fact that most people bought a
Subaru WRX for one of two reasons:
Number one, the all wheel drive and the fact that for
the second, it's definitely because of the
forge blow off valve that's attached to the motor.
It's one of the most beautiful noises to ever grace
our lovely little ears.
Force induction vehicles, or boosted cars,
for the sake of my sanity,
have a special place in our home these days.
They're all over.
(background upbeat music)
They're in Sedans, Coupes, Coupe's if you'd like,
SUVs, trucks, and now even muscle cars
right out of the factory.
Here's the deal-io, though.
People have a tendency to misunderstand what it's
like to actually own a boosted car,
especially the modified ones.
(claps)
You've seen it, I've seen it, we know it,
It's the one car that blows up
you never hear talked about again by that one friend.
Anyway, I'm Alex from Fitment Industries,
alex@fi on the picture page,
and today we're gonna be talking about rookie mistakes
when owning a boosted car.
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Anyway, let's get into it.
Owning a boosted car is a little like
getting the right answer on a calculus question
you didn't quite understand nor actually study for.
It's like you're happy you got it right but you just pray
they don't ask you how you got the answer.
I hated Mrs. Richardson for that exact reason.
Boosted cars can be a bit the same way.
They are generally more complex.
They require a little bit more attention
and when they misbehave they do it a bit worse
than their naturally aspirated counterparts.
First mistake people make is that they buy a car
they have absolutely no understanding of.
This is a double-rookie mistake if the car is modified.
Now, not all boosted cars are created equal.
If you have a twin turbo OEM application that feature a
parallel turbos like the old N54 RB26 DE,
double (mumbles) which split the workload between the two
cylinder banks, these won't behave the same as a sequential
twin turbo system which the turbos are often different
sizes to minimize turbo lag and they deal a different way
in terms of boost and the pressure.
I'm not gonna go into that stuff okay, that's why you
have gels to talk about that during the build sheet,
but, in short, you have super chargers that will behave
differently from the factory than they do strapped to the
top of your 383, and one is not inherently like the other,
so just don't assume.
That goes especially between the OEM and aftermarket.
These things that work on one platform won't inherently
work on another and they're definitely not going to behave
the same when you get behind the old steering wheel.
Which, if you're buying a car that wasn't boosted,
that somebody boosted in their garage,
just know that you might have a bad time
and just accept it. It's gonna happen.
(zooming sound)
A common second mistake which is actually common on
single turbo aftermarket builds is not understanding this
weird thing called turbo lag.
This can be a pretty gnarly experience if you're not
ready for it.
If ya don't die though, that's the tricky bit.
See, turbo lag is the most exciting / petrifying / unusual
experience you can have in a car
because typically, and for function purposes,
you want to minimize it as much as humanly possible.
But that still doesn't stop people from slapping a
big old snail onto their EVO 10 and sending it without
a hood on.
(mechanical noise)
Rookie mistakes get involved in this when someone finally
saves up 20K and they wanna get the fastest thing they can
possibly find on Craigslist.
This usually ends up being some sort of forced induction
bigger turbo EVO or Corvette or twin turbo 370Z.
They do their test drive, they pick it up,
and they immediately start sending it.
Don't send it.
I'm going back to the first and biggest tip in all of these
Done Dare video's, just go to a parking lot and
send it there.
Eat a curb, only disappoint yourself and maybe your mother.
That way you only make fun of yourself.
And don't smash up your newly purchased 600 horsepower EVO
because you didn't understand turbo lag because the
big old thing that's sticking out of the hood looked
really cool for Instagram but unfortunately when you
put your foot down to the gas
(slurping noise)
(explosion)
Did you hear it?
That's the sound.
It's the sound.
It's the pssh noise, you know what I'm saying?
No idea why that sound is actually so lovely but some
people get a little, maybe just a little
too captivated by it.
Blow-out valves are just usually adjustable
with both their spring rate and
or adjustable top with pre-loads
with said spring to allow air to pass through,
up to a certain pressure amount.
You want more details, go talk to gels.
Because everyone loves the sound of blow-out valves,
they throw them on pretty much every forced induction car
they possibly can.
Turbo charged car, single turbo, twin turbo, tri-turbo
(mumbles)
Yes, but single turbo and twin turbo is super common.
BMW's, Audi's, Mitsubishi's, even a Ford Fusion,
not even kidding.
The problem with blow-out valves is their intention,
it is to blow out excess pressurized air to help manage
the air flow so that nothing goes ka-pow when the
throttle closes.
People will often turn down the pressure on these
blow-out valves as much as humanly possibly so it opens
up easier which makes the pssh noise we all know and love.
There is a problem with that.
You're no longer allowing the blow-out valve to do what
it's actually supposed to do.
Which is to keep your turbo charger / engine alive,
allowing air to more easily escape prevents the engine from
maintaining proper pressure in the event of an open,
or closed, throttle position.
Then you end up just sounding really cool but going
as slow as a goose
(quack)
with easy's on, it's just not a good time,
and it just don't feel right.
A lot of times that you have to remember with your
blow-out valve is that it's really not as gonna be,
it's really not as common as you think.
Putting a blow-out valve onto a car, especially on
a stock platform with absolutely no other modifications,
will often ruin the driving experience more than it
actually helps.
That's why you want to get all the other supporting mods
before you end up getting those old turb-ski blow-out
valve forged things.
Another hot topic when you get into it is not allowing your
turbo'd car to get up to temp.
It's actually pretty important, especially with oil.
A boosted car that isn't at operating temp won't get the
oil to where it needs to go for when you do decide
to show your coworkers your new turbo charged 'vette.
Oil flow is the blood of your car and you gotta let that
stuff warm up.
(zooming sound)
Super easy tip, especially if you don't live in a place
that's going to steal your car, but just turn it on,
let it rest for 45 seconds,
check your Instagram and then jump in your car
and you can go send it.
Final tip we have for you is that if you're looking
to buy a boosted car that didn't get boosted from factory,
get the supporting mods needed or prepare
to be disappointed.
When people buy an original car that didn't come boosted
and then boost it, they have a tendency to cut corners,
especially if it's not from a shop.
After all, just the right kit can get pretty pricey,
and when it comes down to building a, you know,
a turbo charged car around the block and in the garage,
you just, sometimes you have a tendency to look away
at, you know, the forged internals, and you think that
if you just slap her on there and you drive it four or five
times a year, no, nothing will go wrong.
You know what you're doing.
Owning a boosted car requires more upkeep than just turning
up the manual boost controller and installing a forged
blow-out valve, I know.
I'm sorry.
It's a peculiar little snail that can make your car turn
into a proper monster, or become a paperweight if its
not properly kept.
You can ask Zak, at work, how it's going for him,
but he did just get it back and it sounds
(kissing)
beautiful.
With that being said, what's a rookie mistake you know about
people owning a booster car.
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