Turbo header tuning

[Clarence Wood]

  Clive, have thought that pre-turbo tuning would help but everyone I have spoken to has claimed minimal benefits.  Would really like to hear more on the subject. 

At 11:03 AM 1/4/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>> Header tuning is done to help scavenge the cylinder and ensure a clean fresh
>> charge.  Turbo charging does the same thing by increasing the pressure at
>> the intake side.  The turbine on the exhaust side represents a restriction.
>> If it didn't the turbine wouldn't turn!  As such, no tuning of the exhaust
>> is going to help move the gases through the pipes any faster or better.  You
>> could make the turbine less restrictive but this is tuning the turbo to
>> higher rpms with more lag time on the bottom end.
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>totally wrong
>because turbo exhausts are operating under higher pressures
>they are even more responsive to exhaust tuning than NA cars
>properly designed headers befroe a turbo cna make massive power gains
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>Clive 
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