given that my ute is 11368 miles away, the thread was there to give me something to chew over. an antilag thread came up on msextra.com too, and i had a few things to say there. i'd be keen to try out basic anitlag in small doses as the engineering side of that is most simple (oversized pwmidle valve and nothing else), and someone that uses that style of antilag said that any form of it done through a pwm idle valve wont harm the turbo manifold ex valves at all. i tend to agree.
i strongly doubt that it can achieve what i want though. i full intend to add venturis into the manifold for hardcore antilag, and modify the ms2e source to control it in a useful way.
the supercharger setup is just so much work and setup time to not speed the car up and to make it more complicated and more front heavy, if you were to read back through my posts you'd see that i was dead set on doing a supercharger conversion, but somewhere i lost sight of it, possibly when i thought about what i could achieve with a cheap holset.
so in my mind, what i intend to do is this :
get some serious brakes and suspension mods and panel mods and what have you onto her, get her running right, get her certed and road legal, enjoy it for a summer, then upgrade the injectors to run more boost, play with antilag, possibly build a smaller turbo system just to try it because it would be relatively easy to do.
after i've had some fun with it and tracked it somewhat i have a secret but totally unexciting medium term plan for it, and then back to being what it is, the ultimate sleeper, with a
dune buggy occasionally on the back :-)
as for the 4age having more torque, no, course not, but add boost and it could, but not at the same boost level. i'd still take it no matter what. if it wasnt for rotating the wrong way, i reckon you'd find honda motors in a lot more places! (same number of wankers though).
summary, i intend to try boring als, serious als, a smaller turbo in that order. but all after getting it legal and tuning it, and finishing it properly, and playing with it a bunch :-)
fred.