Miata Turbo Forum - Boost cars, acquire cats.

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Originally Posted by wes65 (Post 270406)

Some brands have stages of different things. However, it makes no sense if you dont know anything about the car. A better simple question would be "how much boost?"

the question might be slightly better but still WAYY dumb. different size turbos are efficient at different boost levels and put out different power/torque....there are millions of examples but ill go with a true story from personal experience: on my wrx with a tdo6h 20g 8cm turbo i made 30whp more on 4 psi less than with a td05 18g 7cm...also when i was running only 9psi on the 20g due to being on stock injectors and waiting for 750's to come in, i ran a guy pushing 20psi on a stock td04 and absolutely shat on him. his response was "9psi????? WTF!!!".....simply put, a turbo that flows alot more air doesnt need to be pushed as hard as a less efficient one to net same results.. asking about boost usually doesnt result in any useful info.

sorry for the mouthfull, just my .02

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Originally Posted by kotomile (Post 270410)

Completely agree Wes. I've run into a lot of ricers who say "Oh you got a turbo? What stage?". My answer usually depends on my mood, but I'll either explain why "stage" is the wrong term, or I'll simply say "stage 4 and a half".

HAHAHAHA dude i so agree.....:bowrofl:
i usually take the latter approach though, if i see someone knows nothing i have as much fun as i can with it: i say its twin charged with veetack and also got a rotary engine in the back:giggle: