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How to avoid blowing up your car after you turbocharge it
Congratulations, Chachi! You've read through THIS STORY and have now successfully strapped Spooly McBoostington to the exhaust ports of your naturally aspirated engine. You're ready to choo-choo your mad machine all over the street but, how do you avoid accidentally sending Rodney into a low orbit while driving over your own crankshaft? While there is a fair bit of science to making your turbocharged Chachi-mobile live, it ultimately this comes down to cylinder pressure, heat management and maintenance.Tuners will try to manage cylinder pressure and temperature around your set-up, but you need to make sure you have all the hardware on your car...
BUDGET BUILDS: the top 5 budget cars for your first project!
"You should build cars the average person can afford" is something we have seen written all over social media whenever a new car build breaks cover - and this is true for our videos, as well as a lot of our mates making videos. As the prices for our favourite 1980s and '90s nuggets rise dramatically thanks to dwindling stocks and surging nostalgia, our corner of the car hobby is getting very expensive... let alone the cost of chrome bumper classics! So, what do you people wanting to get into their first build, or someone wanting a simple build on a tight budget, do?...
WIN OUR CAR!
Two Hondas enter, but only one will remain in the MCM shed. It's turbo pssh-pssh versus naturally aspirated ting-ting VTEC purity as the show car battles the JDM icon, and an MCM fan will get to OWN ONE OF THESE CARS! NOTE: In case you haven't clued-on, you're about to get Major Spoilers dropped on your face if you haven't seen THE LATEST EPISODE of MCM, and I'm not talking about T-wings and fibreglass! Are you ready? Really ready, Pookie? Do you mind if I call you Pookie? Thanks Pookie! Ok so now prepare your interballs to find...
Why 90s tuner cars are no more gaudy than any other era of modified cars
MOOG's new car (seen HERE) caused a lot of people to question the drugs car-builders were taking during the 1990s and early 2000s. However, this era of "show cars" is, arguably, no different to fads that previous generations went through as well. Thumping subs rattling brains (check MOOG's out HERE), gaudy paint work, crazy body kit modifications and questionably engineered mechanical upgrades - these are pretty much the foundation for any generation of show car, as these types of cars have always aimed to bring in attention from the wider public. While many of us remember the Auto Salon era...
How the heck do you turbo your car?
One of the most popular questions we get asked is, "why do MOOG's feet smell like lollies?" I can't answer that, but I can answer the 2nd most popular question: "how the heck do I turbo my maaad car?" For the sake of this article I'm going to keep the theories very simple. I'm really talking about a simple street car here, not something making four-digit power or being used as a race car. We will go through that later on, and I'll do another article next week on how to size a turbocharger for your car (and different KINDS of...
