Anti-lag devices, pros and cons?

[lrickert at covad.net]

The bolts of flame shooting out the exhaust and multiple backfires every time
you liftoff are enough to keep this off the street. It would rather reduce the
stealth factor of driving an Audi :)

Although it is great for rally cars with one piece super heavy duty exhaust
systems (no cat for sure and probably not even a muffler) With the correct
controller it could be switched off I suppose, but no street "legal" exhaust
system is going to take the abuse.

Dumping extra fuel into the exhaust system is not going to do much for mileage
either, on race cars this doesn?t matter much, in Belgium when gas costs four
times what it does here in the US, it would add up fast. (I paid $1.12 a gallon
the other day!)

Anti-lag would be damn cool, but considering your right foot Mihnea, I can't see
lag being too much of a problem. I think these systems are more necessary for
the early super high power turbo cars (group B that the like) and other really
big laggy turbos. Going to a ball bearing turbo would be a much more practical
way to reduce lag.

It is good to hear the car is running again.

Luke


10/22/02 6:28:34, Mihnea Cotet <c_mihnea at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Title says it all, what are the pros and cons
>(especially the cons) for anti-lag systems?>