Anti Lag... Legal or Illegal

Beta Ray Bill

is it legal to have an anti lag system on a road going turbo charged car?

Yay or Nay

FYI for those of you that do not know how it works.
basically fuel is detonated in the exhaust manifold to spool up the turbo quicker.

A by product from this is a few loud pops and bangs from the exhaust and the occasional spark.

I would imagine it is Illegal. (Definitely frowned upon)

John-Holmes

Illegal in the north as far as I know lad.

grahambo

grahambo wrote: »

is it legal to have an anti lag system on a road going turbo charged car?

Yay or Nay

FYI for those of you that do not know how it works.
basically fuel is detonated in the exhaust manifold to spool up the turbo quicker.

A by product from this is a few loud pops and bangs from the exhaust and the occasional spark.

I would imagine it is Illegal. (Definitely frowned upon)

A lot of modified cars will bang and flame from the exhaust anyway as they are usually set up to over fuel a bit for safety. So I dont see how it would be found out legal or not.

A friend of mine never had any hassle and his exhaust pops seriously loud and also flames at times.

JimmyCrackCorn!

Anti lag is legal.

Im sure its illegal though to drive around with it on as the law states that the noise must be reasonable. With anti lag noise is in no way reasonable.

Turbo cars will bang and pop if there dumping fuel into the exhaust and it gets hot enough but it wont happen all the time when you lift.

TBH i cant see anyone using anti-lag on a road car for long as the turbo will cook itself very quickly. Rally cars have specially designed shafts and even they warp.

zilog_jones

I heard an Altezza yesterday which had anti-lag (either that or it was seriously bolloxed) - very handy for going to the Credit Union!

JimmyCrackCorn!

zilog_jones wrote: »

I heard an Altezza yesterday which had anti-lag (either that or it was seriously bolloxed) - very handy for going to the Credit Union!

Either its broke now or itll cook itself soon. Either way itll end up buggered

Turbos arnt designed for 1000degc+

Beta Ray Bill

JimmyCrackCorn! wrote: »

Either its broke now or itll cook itself soon. Either way itll end up buggered

Turbos arnt designed for 1000degc+

are altezzas turbo charged?

grahambo

grahambo wrote: »

are altezzas turbo charged?

No, unless its an after market turbo which is unlikely.

zilog_jones

It looked like it had an intercooler and some other fancy crap, so had either a turbo kit or a 2JZ-GTE swap

JimmyCrackCorn!

Harold Massive Plant wrote: »

No, unless its an after market turbo which is unlikely.

Quite likely iv see two in ireland. (off topic)

Blitz and greddy do off the shelf kits

Mycroft H

JimmyCrackCorn! wrote: »

Either its broke now or itll cook itself soon. Either way itll end up buggered

Turbos arnt designed for 1000degc+

plus you look like an utter prat

Yakult

^How bad.

Theirs quiet a few turbo altezzas around, starting to get alot more popular recently. Anyway, afaik its legal so.