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Has anyone tried the turbonator?
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:15 am
by 92BlackBeauty
I keep seeing and hearing about this little gadget and it sounds too good to be true....so it probably is. Just thought I would ask if anyone has any experience with this "turbonator" or if anyone believes this would work?
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:23 am
by 91White-T
Is that the intake fan? lol dont waste your time
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:37 am
by 92BlackBeauty
yea haha see I was doubting myself for a minute there....but damn this is stupid lol
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 4:52 am
by dzx
Lol, i dont think a plastic electric fan could build any amount of power to help the car, if anything it would be an intake restriction.
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 5:44 am
by evolutionmovement
I just hire hookers to hang out under the hood and blow into the intake. It's tough finding ones that will play along. Usually have to settle for crack whores as they don't care as long as you pay.
Steve
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 1:16 pm
by free5ty1e
"I've got hookers in the backyard mowing the lawn...
...and they ain't leavin' 'till the sprinklers come on..."
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:13 pm
by professor
the turbonator is not even a fan, its just a stamped piece of metal that looks like a fan blade, to induce spin on the air coming through.
Also known as a restriction.
I read somewhere that that type of air turbulence can fool some MAF's, thereby really screwing things up.
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 2:58 pm
by Nomake Wan
The e-Ram is that electric-fan supercharger thingy. Turbonator is some kind of intake accelerator or something with no moving parts.
If you're going to deal in such small gains, you might as well just wire in a variable resistor that allows you to control what the MAF sensor is sending.
If the stupid thing weren't so expensive (read: waste of money), I'd buy one and put it on just to test it. But $70 is a lot to put on something that doesn't seem to really benefit. The website can say whatever it wants, but I'm only gonna believe dyno results from my own car with an install I did myself.
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2005 10:24 pm
by evolutionmovement
There's been several threads about this. One of which I extol the negative benefits of this product.
Steve
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:32 am
by VRoman
For Subarus Turbonator/Tornado will not give any power, at least I didn't notice any gain or loss. It did improve my gas mileage by about 0.5 mpg, and that's it. As my friends say, for some american cars it works great, they can actually feel the difference.
