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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mcglsr2" data-source="post: 1328123" data-attributes="member: 15705">Here's the thing with that - I'm not sure people are really hating on him for doing it, think of it more as probing for the reasons.  After all, most people put turbos under the hood for good reason.  And no, that reason isn't to be like all the other sheep.  There are solid reasons grounded in thermodynamics and physics.  If we are talking about something subjective, like the color of a car, and he wants to sticker bomb the shit out of it to do something different, well then alright, all the "hate" doesn't make any sense.  But when he bucks a common way of turbo charging a car, he's going to get questions asked.  All the better if he can answer those questions - and if his answer is simply "because I wanted to" then alright, no one can say anything to that.  It's his car.  But doing what he did raises a lot of (valid) concerns and questions, thus the perceived hate I guess.To go out of one's way to just be different, more times than not is cool and totally okay; but to do that on something that doesn't necessarily make sense will garner questions.  Not saying he did anything wrong, just what is probably causing folks to ask stuff.  Either way, it's his car, it's all good, whatever he wants to do.Edit: Thinking more on this, I honestly wonder if he didn't drop the turbos in the engine bay, run like 6 psi, and end up making about the same amount of power without needing meth.  Remember, boost is simply back pressure - just because one runs more boost doesn't mean that more power couldn't be made with *lower* boost on a better flowing system.  In fact, that's one of the first things one notices when upgrading the system flow (whether it be the heads, better flowing intercooler, piping, whatever) - the same power is all of a sudden had at a lower boost level.  And I'm willing to bet a dollar that all that piping he has going back and forth is causing some back pressure.</blockquote>