air filter on a turbo?
 

forgive me for being nieve but is there realy a porpose to puttin a filter on the end of ur turbo?... i think i heard somwhere that iut quiets it up a bit .. but who wants a quiet turbo?... arent thoes noises good?... lol anyways can somone help me?

an air filter should be on every turbo. it prevents dirt and other debris from destroying the turbine and fins.

thanx man .. thought so lol ... ijust had to clear that up with a friend ...

no, they are just for looks, air filters dont trap dirt or anything they are 100% un-needed.......-_-

lol shit gusy i knew what an airfilter did .. im not that much of a tool ... i just didnt know how nessary it was ... or if it was usualy used in a street application cuz i dont often see racecars with filters on their turbos ... but thnx for the input

race cars dont need them normally, true race cars are very highly maintained, nascar motors are rebuilt every race if you didnt know that, im not trying to be a dick just sarcastic but if you dont have a filter on and common road debris; rocks, chunks of dirt, ect would fly into the turbo thats not good right, and if they make it past the turbo and into the motor theres a good guess the apex seal(s) will get busted, if it comes with it from the factory its a good idea to use it

naw man that wasnt dickish at all ... and yeah i knew that nascar engines get rebuilt every race ... it was a sily question i guess i just worded it wrong ... i heard somewhere that a filter on the turbo would quiet it up .. and iguess what i wanted to know was if the filter served a purpose other than the odvious lol

im sure itll tone down the sound a little but loud turbos are cool :-D my friends lightning has a loud supercharger on it and this shity cavalier tried to race us so we floored it and he has a lot done to it so when the tranny shifts itll bark the tires, right as it shifted we were ahead of him by like 3 feet and just roached them infront of him so he backed off then at the next stoplight i called him a dumbass for trying to race after hearing that supercharger and he said something like 'oh i thought that was an exhaust leak'

lol no need for air filter,

the turbo will chop up anything , into bite size pieces that the engine can handle!!! LOLLL

lmfao exhaust leak ... dumb kids in their j bodies lol ... yes noisy turbos are good .. thats y i wondered y anyone would want to quiet it up .. but oh well thnax man ... for the input .. and the storie was good to lol

i dunno your mods but you should get a big ass bov (blow off valve) i love the sound of loud ones but that could just be me :)

well right now im driving a 88 na base .... and im doing a whole t11 drivetrain swap ... and im getting a garret t04 60: 1 ar ration turbo ... stainless manifold hks bov and 40mm waste gate

dont forget your fuel mods, EMS, tuning, etc.

I have SUCH a big BOV, it's sooo loud. :eek: It's pretty cool too, 'cause like, you know those custom horns people get for their car that like, play Dixie and stuff? Yeah, my BOV kinda' does that too... But it's so loud that it's for off-road use only--like race-cars and stuff.

lol pimp ... yeah im well aweaer of all the fuel mods and ecu and whatnot ... but in terms of mods .. like power wise .. thats my plan .,, and its coming together rather well actualy

cavaliers suck
 

Hold on you two louder air induction sounds awesome...

LOL, OMG - you realize you just said that a cavalier was able to keep up with the high torque towing gears of a lightning w/ mods until out of first gear? The cavalier has like ~140hp and very tall gears, most trucks can beat most cars thanks to the towing gears starting without the 4 liters of displacement advantage this truck had.

Air filters arent there to directly quiet you turbo... they're there to do exactly what the name implies: filter air. You should run an air filter all the time but you can take it off if you're showing your car.

Why get a loud blowoff valve, a little bit of a hiss is reasonably cool, but if you're not using enough boost to need to blow off all that air... yeah... relief recirculation is better anyway.

If you want to add sound just put a restricting filter on your air pump it'll make that turbo sound. and you'll be cool then :)

(ps. I got a little irritated by the lightning comment)

it didnt keep up, he launched before us and my friend doesnt really race on the street and he hesitated, the cavalier was prolly oing 5-10mph faster then us when he punched it