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Old 10-31-2003, 12:50 PM
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Keane - turbo's are a nightmare for heat under a Cobras hood. I guess you could use ceramic coatings to help with the maze of pipes needed, but the bill woud be astronomical. Also bigger motors tend to need bi-turbo setups to work right too. Then there's that engine managment system that you would need to buy,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Gains made going that way would be marginal over a belt driven supercharger I would think, and for sure it would cost a bunch more. Better to start with a bigger base motor in the first place and use a belt to drive that big-ole' air pump IMHO.
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