Most people with turbo setups (or any mod for that matter) mess with their cars all the time because they can, because they want to, and because they are tweakers at heart. Always looking for that last bit of HP, that one more pound of boost, or that extra ounce of reliability. Then there 's the type who are always messing with it and chasing their tails because of an ill conceived system, or off the wall HP expectations that lead to bad decisions (lets crank the boost up to 20psi and see how she fly's...).
Cry baby's? I haven't heard any cry baby's on this forum. Just a varied cross section of people with different setups, different ideas, and sometimes problems. With the wide difference in technique and setup execution, you get some people that are successful, and some that aren't. On one side you have the reasonable and well engineered BEGI/FM setup. Are they tweaking it? Yes, because they want too. Does it work? Yes, supposedly quite well. Will it be reliable? My bet is yes. Then you have the Spoolin camp. He has a highly modified and more complex setup. Is it working? Yes. Is he tweaking? Yes, because he's a tweaker. Is it reliable? Who knows, he's always tweaking! Finally you have the brave souls that run 10+PSI non intercooled and with no fuel management. All I can say here is, thanks for contributing to the destructive testing portion of the Rn'D process!
Ch. For whatever reason you chose to go N/A. Cool! Run with it! I check the forum all the time in anticipation of your results. I can't wait to see what you can squeeze out of these FS motors. You have good ideas and a respectful amount of knowledge. But the tone of all your responses regarding Forced Induction are that of a person who is jealous, and has something to prove. You have nothing to prove! Hot N/A setups are great (and most of the time just as UN-reliable as F/I). F/I setups are great too.
If you have an answer to somebody's question, it can be answered w/out continuously injecting too much opinion, or a, "see, I told you so!" mentality. It makes your knowledge appear less valid and strays from the persons question.
This is a neat forum and we are lucky to be here witnessing many first time mods and ideas to a car with almost zero aftermarket support. We're seeing allot of grass roots engineering and its exiting to hear what people are coming up with. N/A, F/I, CAI, headers, high compression, porting, talk of 200MPH salt flat monsters... We have the rare opportunity to see it from the ground up. Lets let it go, watch it grow, and see what comes of it all.
If you have a valuable answer to a question. Answer it! Period.
