The first few posts are a little off topic, read on to get to the parts about remote turbo systems.
Originally Posted by toastyghost
One great way to increase your performance is with 800-lb chrome wheels.
Seriously though here's a few ideas:
If you're going to have to custom jimmy-rig an intake you might as well make it a cold air intake instead of short ram. The performance gains are nominal with either but CAI is a little better because it extends to the wheel well or behind the headlight where it can get cool outside air instead of hot engine bay air.
The Pacesetter headers themselves are ok from what I've heard. The only complaints I've read about them were that the thermal coat peels and consequently performance gain starts degrading. That's not a major problem, just get Wal-mart paint stripper spray.. I forget exactly what it is, search the board for "wal-mart" or something to find the thread. Use the stripper to take the black coating off (cheap Pacesetters on NOPI) then spray your own high-temp thermal coating on them.
Someone was talking about they were running a 30 shot of nitrous with a cheap kit they found.. which would be ok except they were advancing their timing when they should have been retarding it. So ask that dude where he got his NAWZ kit (again use search to figure out who the fuck that is, I'd do it for you but I'm lazy). Then if you're going to use it I think they said retard ignition 1 degree.. this prevents the NAWZ from detonating and hurting the engine.
Hmm.. cheap performance...
Oh yeah, another thing you might want to look into is possibly making a "junkyard dog" turbo kit out of parts from salvage cars. The old Saab 900 T should have a lot of what you need to do this. You'll want to get the turbo itself, the coolant feed/return lines and the oil pan tap piece, and probably can use the downpipe and flange from the intake manifold. The flange will have to be broken and re-welded to a custom manifold. I was reading somewhere that a dude built a low-boost turbo kit good for maybe 80 hp (?) or so on a budget of about 600 bucks, by hitting his local salvage yards. Gains = 80 on stock internals, pretty damn sweet if you ask me.
That's all I can think of at the moment.
Good luck! Smoke dem damn Eclipses!!
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