alia176
SILVER Star
A friend of mine just picked up a '96 LX450 113k miles with a TRD blower. Not having a "blown" vehicle, I don't have any experience in this arena. I understand that this is a Root's style blower made by Eaton. Yes?
Here're the questions:
1. How do you know if the blower is doing it's thing? If you don't have a boost gauge. With stock sized tires, should you head go back when you punch it?
2. when does it come on? Is there a specific rpm at which the turbines gets spooled and your manifold goes from negative to positive press?
3. does the MAP stay negative when you're driving around w/o putting your foot in it?
4. This rpm range, when the blower kicks in, can be moved up/down simply by using diff diam drive pulleys?
5. Is the TRD blower simply freewheeling when you're not stomping on the pedal? In another words, no parasitic loss during this time?
In my Mustang 5.0 days, the centrigual blowers were different acting from the TRD unit. Hence the dumb questions!
Thanks.
Ali
Here're the questions:
1. How do you know if the blower is doing it's thing? If you don't have a boost gauge. With stock sized tires, should you head go back when you punch it?
2. when does it come on? Is there a specific rpm at which the turbines gets spooled and your manifold goes from negative to positive press?
3. does the MAP stay negative when you're driving around w/o putting your foot in it?
4. This rpm range, when the blower kicks in, can be moved up/down simply by using diff diam drive pulleys?
5. Is the TRD blower simply freewheeling when you're not stomping on the pedal? In another words, no parasitic loss during this time?
In my Mustang 5.0 days, the centrigual blowers were different acting from the TRD unit. Hence the dumb questions!
Thanks.
Ali