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keln
Is that possible to try and find a shop that could do something as to make the automatic have a "semi-automatic" gate?

It would make driving expierence so fun...
SKperformance
How much money do you have?
keln
From what you said above guess it not even worth it? what would it cost 5k or more?
Graham
[quote name='keln' post='369452' date='Apr 27 2009, 01:36 PM']From what you said above guess it not even worth it? what would it cost 5k or more?[/quote]

For $5k you can get a bolt-on supercharger and forget all about the laggy turbo w/ wastegate setup...

Bolt-on intake-manifold-style supercharger:
[url="http://www.planetsoarer.com/part3/index.htm"]http://www.planetsoarer.com/part3/index.htm[/url]

Other updates including various turbo setups (more common)
[url="http://www.planetsoarer.com/oldupdates.htm"]http://www.planetsoarer.com/oldupdates.htm[/url]
Graham
[quote name='Graham' post='369485' date='Apr 27 2009, 05:58 PM'][quote name='keln' post='369452' date='Apr 27 2009, 01:36 PM']From what you said above guess it not even worth it? what would it cost 5k or more?[/quote]

For $5k you can get a bolt-on supercharger and forget all about the laggy turbo w/ wastegate setup...

Bolt-on intake-manifold-style supercharger:
[url="http://www.planetsoarer.com/part3/index.htm"]http://www.planetsoarer.com/part3/index.htm[/url]

Other updates including various turbo setups (more common)
[url="http://www.planetsoarer.com/oldupdates.htm"]http://www.planetsoarer.com/oldupdates.htm[/url]
[/quote]

Sorry I was thinking of this supercharger. If you surf around it is available for about $5k and doesn't require the welding of the big pig shown in the previous link.

[url="http://www.planetsoarer.com/superchargeJmRoal/JimRoal.htm"]http://www.planetsoarer.com/superchargeJmRoal/JimRoal.htm[/url]
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