the disco potato

[badintentions]

i had one of these on my sr20 and im thinking of getting one for my ca18 but i heard they were made for a 2.0 but 1.8 is not far from it is any one running one of these

[wynnEZ]

Sure you can run one, it just wont get into boost as soon.

[91rs13]

i had one of these on my sr20 and im thinking of getting one for my ca18 but i heard they were made for a 2.0 but 1.8 is not far from it is any one running one of these

How do you use the car?

I run a GT28R and it has a very nice powerband. I do run out of steam in the top end a little, but I was only running 9lbs of boost. ( AutoX and Track car -roadrace, not drag)

Motor is out of the car --but should be back in-in a couple of weeks and I am upping the boost if you want to see what the GT28R is like ( supposed to come on several hundred RPM sooner than the Potato turbo.

Glad to see another CA18 in the Albany area.

[themadscientist]

What goofy name "disco potato". Makes me think of this.

[rico05]

You know why they call it that right TMS?

1st Ultimate Street Car Challenge a Garrett engineer brought out his metallic green B14 with this wunder turbo that he concocted and the name stuck. The turbo went on to be a production unit we know as the GT2860RS.

[themadscientist]

If you use a compressor valve sourced from the hardware store as a boost controller you have a "monkey knuckle".Here is back story on that. Over here we have a hardware store called Makeman, not sure if it is just on Okinawa or Japan-wide. On the store sign is a monkey with a baseball cap and a hammer. People often call it the "monkey store". Back in the day I was poor, not much has changed, and I could not afford a flashy brand name boost controller. Understanding the basic concept of how they worked I realized a regular old compressor regulator would do the same thing for $20 so I used that.It was a big plastic knob, looked legit so people who didn't know anything always asked what kind it was so I started calling it a monkey knuckle. Years later I was looking at a guy's car and I noticed he had a manual boost controller. By then most people had electronic ones and had forgotten that the old manuals still worked. I commented about it and the guy said, "nothing special, just a monkey knuckle" I created a word, kewl.