Well I'm really interested in turboing my '90 CRX. I'm going to mini me it over xmas, but I'm still looking for extra power after that. However in my current situation I need to drive my car to school and back 4 days a week and to get there I drive on the highway for about 30 minutes. Is it feasible to turbo a daily highway driven car?

At 75 mph I'm sitting around 4000 rpm and I'm pretty sure the t3 turbo I'm looking at would be spooled up by then. How bad would it be to drive for half an hour like this?

Thanks for looking.

 

Doesnt matter if your driving at 75 mph at 8000 rpms.. Your not pressing the gas down very much so your turbo isnt going to be creating boost.. A boosted car under normal driving conditions will be just the same as a NA car..

 

If you're sitting at 4,000 RPM just "cruising", you're not creating any load on the engine so the turbo is just "cruising" as well.

 

Well thats good news then

I think I'm a little bit confused about how turbos actually work.
/me runs off to find info on the mechanics of turbos

 

check out http://www.howthingswork.com, they have a pretty cool write up on it.

 

here is the actual link,

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/turbo.htm

 

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This is a great site that I learned alot from when I was learning my turbo setup.. Also search on there for fuel injection..

 

Awesome link. Thanks