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Old 06-11-2003, 01:15 PM
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What would happen to performance and reliability if I put in a Renesis, then took out the twin turbos and replaced them with a sequential setup of a supercharger and some really heavy single turbo? Assuming I won the lottery and gained the necessary technical abilities by means of a radioactive asteroid or something?
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um i'm gonna say nothing. the turbos are the reliability problem. if you had an na rew motor it would last many hundreds of thousands of miles. there arent a lot of reliability mods dont on the renisis, they just raised the rpms it makes power at



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Old 06-12-2003, 11:32 AM
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Y'mean, the turbo is that part that fails? Or that a naturally aspirated engine lasts longer than a boosted one, even if it's tuned well and all?
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Originally Posted by Orochinoyamato' date='Jun 12 2003, 08:32 AM
Y'mean, the turbo is that part that fails? Or that a naturally aspirated engine lasts longer than a boosted one, even if it's tuned well and all?
the heat of the turbo is the cause for most of the failures on the fd



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You can't turbo the renesis due to the port design, no?
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Originally Posted by phinsup' date='Jun 12 2003, 12:41 PM
You can't turbo the renesis due to the port design, no?
I thought they couldnt get the cat to heat up and work with a turbo setup....
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An efficient supercharger is probably going to work better on the Renesis. But then again, Pettit now has an RX-8 or just the engine, or both lol, and they're messing with it right now.
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you can turbo it, its just not gonna like it cause its got smaller apex seals and higher compression



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Originally Posted by Leetheslacker' date='Jun 12 2003, 12:15 PM
I thought they couldnt get the cat to heat up and work with a turbo setup....
**** the cats you tree hugging hippy
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Originally Posted by 93 R1' date='Jun 12 2003, 10:18 PM
**** the cats you tree hugging hippy
Im anti cat!



Its mazda who didnt turbo it..
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