Ecu For V8?
02-03-2005, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by venomrx7' date='Feb 2 2005, 08:07 PM
he was thinking about using the stock ecu with a jet chip.
he was also under the assumption that you could just bolt turbo's to the ends of long tube headers. He said the long tube headers would help him maintain low end torque because of the scavenging effect. LOL..
thats why I'm trying to help him though.
seriously, what would y'all reccomend? I'm not familiar with v8's running on ecu's...
he was also under the assumption that you could just bolt turbo's to the ends of long tube headers. He said the long tube headers would help him maintain low end torque because of the scavenging effect. LOL..
thats why I'm trying to help him though.
seriously, what would y'all reccomend? I'm not familiar with v8's running on ecu's...
1. bad idea
2. thats basically right, the faster rotary guys have a tuned length exhaust manifold, although any off the shelf headers gonna snap like a mobile home park in a hurricane
3. tec3
02-03-2005, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by venomrx7' date='Feb 2 2005, 06:52 PM
Autronic, been out for a while. One of the best systems.
02-03-2005, 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Dramon_Killer' date='Feb 3 2005, 07:42 AM
If he thinks he can just slap turbos on maybe he shouldn't do it. I swear....sounds like the Honda crowd..
i concur
02-03-2005, 07:59 PM
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I am a fan of fast trucks, so I don't have a problem with that.
I told him that he needed to get a machine shop to fab up some custom manifolds for the turbos.
tec III huh? I'll tell him to check it out.
As far as fast trucks go, I like small/midsize trucks for speed. I want to get a 94 or 95 nissan single cab 2wd and swap a sr20 into it and drift it. A pickup would be a perfect drift vehicle.
I told him that he needed to get a machine shop to fab up some custom manifolds for the turbos.
tec III huh? I'll tell him to check it out.
As far as fast trucks go, I like small/midsize trucks for speed. I want to get a 94 or 95 nissan single cab 2wd and swap a sr20 into it and drift it. A pickup would be a perfect drift vehicle.
02-03-2005, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by drftk1d' date='Feb 3 2005, 07:49 PM
yeah.. I don't see why it wouldn't work. those nissan trucks are light as **** and use the same engine as the 240sx. Swap in a sr20, or even just modify the ka24, and put a decent suspension under it and you would have a hell of a drifter.
Although it might be TOO little traction in the back. so much that you wouldn't be able to recover. i dunno. If I ever have money, I'll have to try it.
02-04-2005, 09:58 AM
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It might work okay with the proper suspension, but my stock Nissan Hardbody is a plough monster - all the weight in the front makes the front end just work too hard when asked to brake and turn at the same time, and it just gives up and understeers into the ditch. I have the VG30E which doesn't help.
02-04-2005, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by phinsup' date='Feb 3 2005, 08:43 AM
A truck is for hauling and towing, a turbo helps neither. Use the truck for what it was intended and buy a sports car if you want to go fast and blow large wads of chedder 
Note to self: Sell the turbo-diesel TOW BEAST!
