What the HELL is a turbonator?

[OrngSpd03]

Except I don't believe it has any moving parts. By the way, just out of curiosity, where along the intake are these things installed? Before or after the MAF, etc?

Would it matter

 

[OrngSpd03]

Is this more or less useless then this mod:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7984831245&category=33633&sspagename=WDVW


"So you're craving that turbo spool up sound and you don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a real turbo kit? Don't spend that much money because..."

"This New Gadget is a Muffler adapter that gives you a turbo sound effect, without spending thousands of dollars! These are definitely better than our competitors products you may have seen on EBay. Mine are legitimately shipped from overseas and because I purchased so many, I get to offer the best prices! (I work on volume)"
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Make your car sound like a turbo?

 

[laracroft]

Is this more or less useless then this mod:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7984831245&category=33633&sspagename=WDVW


"So you're craving that turbo spool up sound and you don't want to spend thousands of dollars on a real turbo kit? Don't spend that much money because..."

"This New Gadget is a Muffler adapter that gives you a turbo sound effect, without spending thousands of dollars! These are definitely better than our competitors products you may have seen on EBay. Mine are legitimately shipped from overseas and because I purchased so many, I get to offer the best prices! (I work on volume)"​

Make your car sound like a turbo?

(evil)

Yup, I agree... this is gotta be a joke. Come on now. I was born during a day, but it wasnt YESTERday. Everyone has heard of the turbonator. Biggest waste of money since... well...anything that goes on a Civic from Ebay. lol The guy's joking and if not, I really have to just shake my head at the question to begin with. Havent we already had previous threads on this???
(eyeballs)

 

[J dragon]

Why the hell would anyone want to make their car SOUND like a turbo, or Supercharged?(rice)

 

[Shane5425]

because it makes u OMGCRAZYFASTER than any other car that has the turbo sound...

 

[Robot Romeo]

no matter how may times someone starts a thread about the "turbonator", "tornado", or "those chips that give you 15hp" i always find myself reading the threads. it always makes for a good read and good jokes.

 

[altspace]

woooooooooosh!

 

[Pretzellogic]

No. Seriously: this thread is a joke, right?

 

[goldstar]

No. Seriously: this thread is a joke, right?

How could anything made entirely from stainless steel and whose airflow dynamic produces a swirling, fast-burn effect in the combustion chamber that creates finer particles of atomized fuel allowing better flame propagation and more complete combustion be a joke?

 

[jonlong]

How could anything made entirely from stainless steel and whose airflow dynamic produces a swirling, fast-burn effect in the combustion chamber that creates finer particles of atomized fuel allowing better flame propagation and more complete combustion be a joke?

Whoa...that makes me want to buy it!

 

[Pretzellogic]

How could anything made entirely from stainless steel and whose airflow dynamic produces a swirling, fast-burn effect in the combustion chamber that creates finer particles of atomized fuel allowing better flame propagation and more complete combustion be a joke?

You think that air that is tickled by this thing that far down on the intake is still going to be "swirling" by the time it boogies on through the intake mani to create a "fast-burn effect in the combustion chamber that creates finer particles of atomized fuel allowing better flame propagation and more complete combustion?"

 

[goldstar]

You think that air that is tickled by this thing that far down on the intake is still going to be "swirling" by the time it boogies on through the intake mani to create a "fast-burn effect in the combustion chamber that creates finer particles of atomized fuel allowing better flame propagation and more complete combustion?"

Yes, because once the turbonator imparts swirl to the air, the magnetic hysteresis generated by the swirl causes an ionic shift in the O2 molecules in the intake air creating a positive charge. However, the intake duct is negatively charged and the resultant repulsion between air and duct imparts a tornado like spiral action to the intake air such that it corkscrews its way into the combustion chamber creating finer particles of atomized fuel allowing better flame propagation and more complete combustion. Once the process is completely understood, it makes perfect sense.
(cool)

 

[Protephile]

Yes, because once the turbonator imparts swirl to the air, the magnetic hysteresis generated by the swirl causes an ionic shift in the O2 molecules in the intake air creating a positive charge. However, the intake duct is negatively charged and the resultant repulsion between air and duct imparts a tornado like spiral action to the intake air such that it corkscrews its way into the combustion chamber creating finer particles of atomized fuel allowing better flame propagation and more complete combustion. Once the process is completely understood, it makes perfect sense.
(cool)

lol. goldstar, you are my hero on any forum...

 

[sickspeed94]

Yes, because once the turbonator imparts swirl to the air, the magnetic hysteresis generated by the swirl causes an ionic shift in the O2 molecules in the intake air creating a positive charge. However, the intake duct is negatively charged and the resultant repulsion between air and duct imparts a tornado like spiral action to the intake air such that it corkscrews its way into the combustion chamber creating finer particles of atomized fuel allowing better flame propagation and more complete combustion. Once the process is completely understood, it makes perfect sense.
(cool)

PWN3D, i wish there wasn't a rule on how big my sig could be, because that would definately be my new sig.

 

[nate0123]

(uhm)

 

[Shane5425]

Yes, because once the turbonator imparts swirl to the air, the magnetic hysteresis generated by the swirl causes an ionic shift in the O2 molecules in the intake air creating a positive charge. However, the intake duct is negatively charged and the resultant repulsion between air and duct imparts a tornado like spiral action to the intake air such that it corkscrews its way into the combustion chamber creating finer particles of atomized fuel allowing better flame propagation and more complete combustion. Once the process is completely understood, it makes perfect sense.
(cool)

so in plain terms, it works to a degree?

 

[nate0123]

My buddy just got one for his ford zx2, he thinks its the greatest thing since sliced bread. And the worst part about it is, his car is now faster than mine, what the hell is this thing. Should i buy one?

his car was faster the whole time, ZX2's are lighter and quicker than p5s

ZX2 manual only weighs 2504 lbs

 

[Shane5425]

his car was faster the whole time, ZX2's are lighter and quicker than p5s

ZX2 manual only weighs 2504 lbs

its all in his mind, he wasnt good driving it, but thought he did a "Power adder" and drove better..

 

[nate0123]

stock manual ZX2 could do 0-60 in the mid to high 7's

in a stock p5 you're lucky to get under 9.0 (with a manual)

 

[WetsuitxNinja]

69 bucks huh. Im pretty tempted to get it, 30 day money back... I think im gonna try to find a place to get my car dyno'd before and after, and if it doesnt show any improvement send it back.... I paid 50 bucks for a CAI for no gains, so Idk why this thingy is being bashed... (enguard)