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Squires Turbo Systems has made a turbo sytem in which the turbine replaces the muffler at the end of the exhaust. The intake, and the air filter, sit by the turbo, under the car, and a tube runs all the way back to the engine to send in the "fresh" air. Like so:

It looks like the engine would have to pull real hard to suck in the air at high RPM's due to the looooooong intake tube, but the boost should more than make up for that. It also seems it would be easy to hydrolock, and that small rocks might crack the turbo housing. Would this be a useable, reliable setup?

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Sweet, I'm not sure if it'd be too reliable, but it would be effective if it did work.



-- Edited by Kevin at 14:43, 2004-12-19

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Bad idea. It's right behind the rear wheel. In anything other than perfectly dry, clean, road conditions, that filter would clog with road crap real fast. And can you imagine if it snowed?

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Originally posted by: thewizard16
"Bad idea. It's right behind the rear wheel. In anything other than perfectly dry, clean, road conditions, that filter would clog with road crap real fast. And can you imagine if it snowed? "
Whoa, I didn't see the filter there, didn't take a good look at it.  Yeah, that is a bad idea.

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