Accelerated Performance 2013 BRZ - FRS Turbo Kit Designing

[swift996]

^ Thanks, interested in your development (thanks!)...also, it looks like the turbo is pretty close to the stock sway bar, do you see any issue when someone upgrades to a thicker diameter sway bar?

[#87]

This looks really promising. The design looks well thought out, I just wish there were more real world testing with it. There was a dyno, 2 or 3 shifts getting on the highway, and thats it?

But I'm sure when I'm ready to get a kit in about a year, the data will be out there with people on the drag strip and race track and daily driving. For me the most important thing is bulletproof reliability so I will have to wait.

[Draco-REX]

Originally Posted by OrbitalEllipses

It's facing the wrong way to be used as anything other than a heat extractor.

It's not a ram-air design, but a way to pull air inside. The engine with or without a turbo will create more than enough low pressure inside the airbox to pull air in. Diesel trucks use fender vents all the time for intakes. Yes, they are in a good location to be heat extractors, but the low pressure along the side of the car is not low enough to keep one from being used as an intake.

[Don@Accelerated]

Originally Posted by swift996

^ Thanks, interested in your development (thanks!)...also, it looks like the turbo is pretty close to the stock sway bar, do you see any issue when someone upgrades to a thicker diameter sway bar?

There is no issue. I've already taken that into account. Sway bar can be 1/2" thicker. Which honestly from my experience it doesn't need a larger sway bar.

[Don@Accelerated]

Originally Posted by #87

This looks really promising. The design looks well thought out, I just wish there were more real world testing with it. There was a dyno, 2 or 3 shifts getting on the highway, and thats it?

But I'm sure when I'm ready to get a kit in about a year, the data will be out there with people on the drag strip and race track and daily driving. For me the most important thing is bulletproof reliability so I will have to wait.

The car is my personall DD. There is far more testing than i'm showing. I can't take video of everything I do. I'd need a full time camera crew!

[Don@Accelerated]

Originally Posted by Don@Accelerated

There is no issue. I've already taken that into account. Sway bar can be 1/2" thicker. Which honestly from my experience it doesn't need a larger sway bar.

Actually I need to correct myself. It can be 1/2" larger in radius. 1" larger overall. Never will come into play!

[Draco-REX]

Originally Posted by serialk11r

About that, I wonder how well that actually works. There should be a separation bubble where the hood breaks abruptly for the space where the windshield wipers are, but then the air hits the bottom of the windshield and stagnates or something. Seems like you would be sucking air out of the separation zone, which I'm guessing is actually at comparatively "low pressure" but I might just be talking out of my ass.

Essentially, the hood compresses air as it travels towards the windshield by pushign it upwards along the slope against air traveling above it. Then when it hits the windshield, it has to travel upwards even more steeply against the air pushing against the windshield. This makes the windshield area, and especially the point at the base where the air stream has to turn abruptly a high pressure area. "Cowl Induction" uses this effect.

Now, any higher pressure area can cause drag, so today's cars minimize this with greater slope to the windshield and better transitions from the hood. So the high pressure bubble at the base of the windshield is minimized these days. But it may still be there. Whether it is or it isn't, it's still a source of cool air from outside the engine bay.

[subatoy]

Originally Posted by NickFRS

I wont buy till there is a little more of a professional build out there. Waiting to see what this turns into down the road a couple months. Not saying this isn't professional but maybe you should play with different placements, different turbo's, and intercooler choices before hitting the market. This kinda just looks like a garage ebay turbo kit.

I agree but I do appreciate the effort, I think this kit might set the standard for Turbo placement for other tuners.
I'm want to wait for 4 -5 options for turbo kits from multiple aftermarket tuners but I'm paying more attention to supercharger kits right now.

[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by NickFRS

I've never seen a build with the Intake right on top of the engine... I wonder what the intake teps get up to when the car is in traffic or stopped at a light....

It can be moved if you are willing to lose the strut tower brace. This has been stated in this thread already. Don can correct me if I'm wrong of course.

This kit was designed to require basically zero modification/zero cutting so packaging is designed around that concept. Personally I appreciate the concept as I dislike cutting into my newer vehicles.

[TouchMyHonda]

And lets be honest. The strut tower probably does virtually nothing.

[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by TouchMyHonda

And lets be honest. The strut tower probably does virtually nothing.

You can tell that you own a double wishbone Honda

It's a lot more likely to have an effect on a mac strut car.

I use the one in my Honda to hold wiring for my oil pressure and oil temp gauges, so it does something there too :P

[TouchMyHonda]

LOL good point, overlooked the macpherson stuff.

[Tad_07]

Search turned up negative, but what are you using to control boost? I'd assume since you are talking about turning it up a little you are using an ebc in addition to you kit.

[Don@Accelerated]

The dyno testing was just on wastegate spring. However I have an AEM Tru Boost and AEM UEGO to wire into the car.

Don