air starvation at high lateral force

[avriette]

Curious thing happened today. We indulged in a bit of, uh, touge on Akina this morning. Starting at fifty, and running up through the top of third, there was no problem at all. By the time we got to the top of fourth, the car was really at the limit of its ability to stay planted. My faithful co-pilot turned to me and said "does that sound mean we've lost traction?" So, if you can imagine, we're near the top of fourth, which is what, 100mph? A little more? Going uphill, although there was 3/4 of a tank, so I don't think it's a fuel starvation problem. At any rate, the little beep that says "You've got boost!" was not beeping. I looked up at the boost gauge, and it was reading close to 1 bar, but couldn't quite make it. When the road leveled out, boost came right back up to peak.

I can't imagine that it was air starvation, but I also can't think of an alternative. Haven't ever heard of this sort of thing before. Car was at WOT, so there shouldn't have been a problem feeding the turbo, and the rising boost when the car leveled out seems to confirm that. The only difference between the two conditions is the serious lateral pull. Well, and the incline of the car.

Ideas?

[cheshirecat]

I'm going to have ask a few friends about this one.....

[zaxrex]

Yeah, that sounds really strange.

I would have thought that you would be able to get boost sooner going up hill when the load was increased. Strange.

You got balls going that fast in FFC.

[avriette]

You got balls going that fast in FFC.

FFC? Fairfax? I don't live in Fairfax. And besides, Akina is in Gunma.

[zaxrex]

I thought you were doing this IRL, not Innitial D style and invoking the name as to not implicate yourself.

[avriette]

I thought you were doing this IRL, not Initial D style and invoking the name as to not implicate yourself.

There's an Akina in Fairfax? I'm referring to the Mount Akina in Gunma prefecture, between the villages of Clarendon and Georgetown. That's the translated name of the villages, actually. The Kanji is "走り屋" (Clarendon) and "ゼロヨン" (Georgetown). That's why I deliberately used the word "touge" (峠).

I've mentioned Akina before.

[snaab]

I thought you were doing this IRL, not Initial D style and invoking the name as to not implicate yourself.

There's an Akina in Fairfax? I'm referring to the Mount Akina in Gunma prefecture, between the villages of Clarendon and Georgetown. That's the translated name of the villages, actually. The Kanji is "???" (Clarendon) and "????" (Georgetown). That's why I deliberately used the word "touge" (?).

I've mentioned Akina before.

?????????Clarendon?Georgetown????????????
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EDIT: I posted without previewing. How the heck did you get the boards to post in Japanese? Mine jumbled the writing, as you can see.

[avriette]

?????????Clarendon?Georgetown????????????
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EDIT: I posted without previewing. How the heck did you get the boards to post in Japanese? Mine jumbled the writing, as you can see.

Unicode.

[snaab]

?????????Clarendon?Georgetown????????????
????????????????

EDIT: I posted without previewing. How the heck did you get the boards to post in Japanese? Mine jumbled the writing, as you can see.

Unicode.

It's still not working for me, even with Unicode. Oh well, it's not Japanese is the lingua franca here anyway.

[Sabre]

Sounds like your headlight fluid is running low.....

Honestly, I always am able to build boost better when going up hill (since I'm under load). Not sure what happened with you guys :/