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« on: 10 January 2008, 13:07:12 »
what is it ? :-[
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Re: overboost
« Reply #1 on: 10 January 2008, 13:10:07 »
Excessive air pressure in the inlet of a turbocharged or supercharged engine, due to failure of the control mechanism (usually a wastegate on a Turbo, which allows exhaust gases to bypass the turbine stage).

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Re: overboost
« Reply #2 on: 10 January 2008, 22:25:13 »
SWMBO's Focus has an overboost function built into the control system which is activated when the accelerator is hard to the floor. Designed to assist when overtaking etc semingly but in this case it must be about burnt out ;D.

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Re: overboost
« Reply #3 on: 10 January 2008, 23:25:46 »
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SWMBO's Focus has an overboost function built into the control system which is activated when the accelerator is hard to the floor. Designed to assist when overtaking etc semingly but in this case it must be about burnt out ;D.

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Yeh, I know what you are talking about, Mel Gibson had one of these fitted to his car in Mad Max 1...  ;D
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Re: overboost
« Reply #4 on: 11 January 2008, 14:11:53 »
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SWMBO's Focus has an overboost function built into the control system which is activated when the accelerator is hard to the floor. Designed to assist when overtaking etc semingly but in this case it must be about burnt out ;D.

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Yeh, I know what you are talking about, Mel Gibson had one of these fitted to his car in Mad Max 1...  ;D

Nah that was a supercharger which was probably about the same size as the Focus engine. ;D
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Re: overboost
« Reply #5 on: 11 January 2008, 14:33:45 »
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SWMBO's Focus has an overboost function built into the control system which is activated when the accelerator is hard to the floor. Designed to assist when overtaking etc semingly but in this case it must be about burnt out ;D.

Steve

Yeh, I know what you are talking about, Mel Gibson had one of these fitted to his car in Mad Max 1...  ;D

Nah that was a supercharger which was probably about the same size as the Focus engine. ;D

I thought it was the nitrous shot......I know it span the super charger up as well.
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Re: overboost
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Re: overboost
« Reply #7 on: 11 January 2008, 21:34:13 »
Apparently it was based on an 1973 Ford Falcon XB GT Coupe....
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