Discussion: Brake Boosting

Fine it helps. Technically. :stuck_out_tongue:

But seriously, most of you guys roll racing don’t need to do it. Spend the time tuning the car. Save your trannies. Just my opinion, but nobody listens to me anyway :shrug:

i’ll wait to get my car back on the road, then i’ll try it out…and post something useful on here…

While I fully agree about building your car, tuning your car to accomplish this task (or compensate for it) brake boosting will always help. It will always give you an edge, in some cases more significant than others. Replacing your turbo with a better designed turbo, and properly tuning it will help it spool faster, however there will always be a delay, the delay will just vary depending on your setup…

edit: and i also understand your position on this thread because the basis is pretty much ā€œis it worth it to brake boostā€ but that question is loaded. Is it worth it?:

Yes: if you value winning thee race more than the potential cost of replacing parts :stuck_out_tongue:

BTW - Brake boosting is a way around the wastegate… no turbo, unless its useless, will be able to spool instantly.

Brake boosting = only done in races that you need an extra edge

I brakeboosted a couple times and I felt as though my car wanted to blow up.

Or, maybe it is just because it’s a DSM…

but it felt like worse than normal lol

I wouldn’t recommend bb’ing a lot on a big turbo lol

lol… your brakes/clutch would not like 15psi of constant boost… especially if your doing ~40mph… heat soak… along with other issues would make it troublesome.

that’ll be…never

:eekdance:

im ready for another discussion…apparently i graduated from speeder jr. to speeder!
bring em on and ill give really good input
^^ not likely

Did you just post how your car was back on the road? :shrug:

yea, broke it the next day.

no, it was out for a week, and now he has fuel pump problems… but he bought a new fuel pump… and now its broke? Not that I care, cause I’m still faster :stuck_out_tongue:

lol wow…i love it…

first off, what is K Cuv talking about? how it is not likely that it’ll be on the road…

people really dont know what they’re talking about…Jack came the closest…

it was/is on the road, was fun for a day or two, then then 15 year old, 94k miles NA fuel pump started to act up…something i totally anticipated, which is why i ordered a newer TT fuel pump the day i got it on the road…i just didn’t think i would need it that quick, having read on several Z32 forums that the NA pump is good for up to 10 or 11 psi…so i shoulda gotten away with it for a while, but no…it started to go right away, so until the new one arrives, which was sposed to be today, but USPS sucks balls and it’s going to be late…but anyway, until it arrives, i am CHOOSING not to drive the car…i can get it started and drive it around, but why risk any further damage when i dont absolutely need it for daily driving?

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

If You have to make that choice… :slight_smile:

my 14 yr old fuel pump still works… even after 125,000 miles…

at least this thread made it basically to page three before going off topic :bloated:

Back to brake boosting…

brake boosting is over. What else is there to discuss? It got to the point where we had finished arguing that it was effective in every turbo application… and that it was harmful no matter how well built your POS was.

yes but yours was made for twin turbo cars…mine was not…

ok…NOW back to brake boosting…

Good point. Discussion over :slight_smile: