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Old Aug 2, 2008 | 11:48 PM
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thiers a electric turbo/supercharger made by mimo. it will go on the end of any short ram or cold air intake. it looks like a plastic turbo with a fiter comming off of it its around 300 dollars and they claim it will produce 15 to 25 hp. they also said that with a cold air intake it will produce 2 psi !! with 250cfm? with a current draw of only 2.2 amps. just google mimo electric turbo and tell me what you think!!!! i have a 08 tc with injen cold air intake and weapon r 4-2-1 headers and im looking to just go with bolt ons for right now. anouher thing they said is that if you install you dont have to upgrade any internals but im sure it would throw a cell !!! lol
Old Aug 2, 2008 | 11:56 PM
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oh yeah you know what.....

FAIL.

that thing is garbage.
Old Aug 2, 2008 | 11:57 PM
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This can't be a serious thread...
Old Aug 3, 2008 | 12:20 AM
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im not selling the thing or saying how great it is and of course it not a REAL turbo but for the people that dont have 4 grand to drop on a turbo it might be a quik cheap 20 hp
Old Aug 3, 2008 | 12:29 AM
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Old Aug 3, 2008 | 12:30 AM
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buy a leaf blower, stick the output end into your intake. same thing but better $$$ to power ratio. thats actually been dyno proven to make hp.
Old Aug 3, 2008 | 12:37 AM
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lol i knew i was gonna get all kinds of poop for posting that but it is kinda funny has anyone ever tried one of thies things???? lol
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Originally Posted by Angry_Celi_Guy
buy a leaf blower, stick the output end into your intake. same thing but better $$$ to power ratio. thats actually been dyno proven to make hp.
i saw that vid..........funny crap
its even funnier that it actually worked
Old Aug 3, 2008 | 01:26 AM
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It might do a little something for ya. Probably not 25hp. But really, for $350+, save 150$ and get an s-pipe.... proven power gains. The s-pipe is the most restrictive part of the exhaust, outside of the cat. Before I went boosted, I thought the s-pipe was the best bang for buck. Espicially if your on a budget.
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ROFL
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it works!!!!!!! we linked 20 of them.. i got a boat battery in the trunk but i got over 500 hp!!!!!!
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i have a injen cold air intake and a weapon r 4-2-1 with s pipe i just wanted to see what peaople thought or had to say im not thinking about buying it im just looking around for more bot ons i cant shell out 4 or 5 grand on a turbo thats done correctly with all the interals and fuel emang and dynos
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lol $300 for that POS , save that money and get a exhaust or something worth spending on.
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Not worth the money....save up and get a real turbo.
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