Carnage - Turbo Taxi Is Alive, and Making More Power!
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Turbo Taxi is back! The OG Carnage car is alive and well and in this episode of Carnage it's headed for the dyno to make more power than ever.
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So happy to see the Taxi back,going to wear my Turbo Taxi shirt today to celebrate!😊
More drama I would bet on as Ur dyno session usually are
Scotty, you legit have no idea how happy I am to see Turbo Taxi back! It's legit the car that brought me onto watching the channel and I love it. Can't wait to see what you do with it. Keep up the great work mate!
Same ere
Yep, it was Turbo Taxi that got me hooked on Carnage, all those years ago! "-)
As an owner of an ECOLPI XR6 ❤this direction you are heading with this car 🎉💯
Love this rig. Streeters are better to watch than drag monsters 😂
Looks like your up for a new set of windscreen smearers Scotty. I admire you dedication to LPG with this because if you went e85 it would be faster but not as unique.
Good work.
I looked into doing turbo LPG must be well over 30 years ago, and I think Scotty is running into the same problems I was facing, and that is getting enough gas in to make the power.
@@DodgyBrothersEngineering Same here !! years ago had a 350 in a Torana twin Gas Reseach throttle bodies
threw it all in the bin 750 holley much easier
@@benpaganoni1849 back when I was looking into it. The idea of injecting the gas was fairly new and the price was insane. There was only a fixed computer that couldn't be altered in anyway. Was about then I decided I was pushing it up hill. I did buy some Impco gear which I never wound up using.
Can’t believe it’s been that long. I loved this whole series on taxi.
The smile on Scotty's face.... he loves that car. And so do I.
I think it is a bit of a love / hate relationship. Scotty has put in the hard work, but she refuses to put out.
I've been looking at options for my lpg car (5L AU Wagon) and stumbled across someone who was running lpg 90% of the time, and then offsetting it with 98 at wot and high boost. You should try tuning some e86 into it at high loads and maintain the cheapness (and coolness) of lpg most of the time!
We could try that.
@@STREETMACHINETV Here's one of the full boost vids I saw on it..
I missed Turbo Taxi, I'm glad to see Mr Taxi back in action. ❤
love it, as an American who's only played with propane power - this is really interesting to continue watching.
A big appeal of this car has always been because it’s on LPG. Going E85 will just make this car another e85 barra = done to death and not unique.
Step up the LPG system from a vapour injection to liquid injection setup. Shouldn’t cost anymore than a E85 conversion and keep flying the LPG flag! LPG is cheap in VIC and still very available.
I am inclined to agree. LPG is what makes this project interesting, but also challenging. I don't know if there would be enough difference to justify stepping it up. Not sure I would bother with the E85, as you say it loses the essence of the project, just move on from it to something else.
Yeah totally agree & run the eco-lpi setup 👍
1:23 See Scotty wearing his Australian Stig outfit wearing Dunlop KT-26's. I know you're going to be in the new version of Top Gear Australia!
It was good to see the old Falcon taxi again. The younger kids these days would be asking what a taxi is!
Saw the old girl lurking in the background a few times during the V8 SuperLexcen build and thought this might be coming. Good to see the old girl back.
Yay, turbo taxi is back. It is nice to see the other cars and what not, but turbo taxi is, and always will be the OG of this channel. Lets be honest, when you stopped work on this and originally started the mx5, people collectively let out a sad 'aww'. Good to see you havent given up on the BBQ fuel, and gone absolutely as far as you can with it before switching over e85.
Happy days are back❤watching from Thailand Scotty 🇹🇭 🎉tuk tuk
Naughty boy! UVP requires you remove the plates....😆
Good to see the crazy cab again.
I figured I'd leave them because of the LPG tags in case of an emergency
Hi I'm from Canada and I love the Ford Falcon (Barra) you have in Australia, it's a shame we didn't have this brand in Canada!
Good to see the Taxi back on the ranks
so happy to see the taxi back again. been waiting ages for this.
The Grand Daddy of all Cars, is back out and about. I'm hoping the Weekend was a great one, full of pass after pass. ❤❤
Yay, back to normal .. i just love to see you chasing pbs and squeezing more and more out of all the engines at the dyno 😁
Ah, 13 "BOOST" is back, nice!
The OG taxi nice to see a video on it. Still, that's good power already.
Family commitments? teaching the Misses how to weld on the MR2? ;)
Taxi is sounding better than ever, be good to see the old girl back on the track 👊👍👌💪
Yes!!! We’ve missed this.
I also own a Melbourne ex-taxi that I named Vault. So I am super pleased to see Turbo Taxi. I'm not done with LPG yet but will be one day. So am super keen to watch the conversion of Turbo Taxi off LPG. It's a pain to get a good mechanic when your car is on LPG.
Hey Scotty...............How about you put on a BIGGER Turbo........(It is after all ....Turbo Taxi). Awesome to see this project back on the Workbench. Cheers.
When I seen this pop up earlier I thought it was a old video. I enjoyed this build and I’m excited to see its future.
I first started watching carnage = turbo taxi
My number 1
I wish you would have converted it to a JTG liquid gas system. Inject as a liquid gas which expands and tries to freeze the intake mix and 105 octane gas.. i have that setup on my xr6t and its way more powerful than on 98
I saw it in the background in the last vid and was excited to see it...and now...here it is ladies and gentlemen!
Good to meet you today at hpr hope you had a great day!
Good job Scotty, show us some 10’s mate!!
there is a V8 LPG XF panel van that holds the Record at Lake Gairdner @ 172 MPH , somewhere around that
Bloody awesome Scotty, so good to see turbo taxi back!
The turbo-taxi isn't the prettiest car in the carnage garage, but it sounds amazing. Love turbo-taxi
Yes!!! I'm so glad the TT is back, but please leave it LPG that's the whole point of it being a taxi, and it makes it unique. no one gives a toss anymore about an e85 setup that's been done to death
LPG makes it unique but we are at it's absolute limits and we're sick of throwing engines at it.
The beloved Taxi ❤
I don't wanna hear talk of E85.. sacrilege!!!
If you want Turbo Taxi to run right you need to puke in the back seat and give it a slight smell of BO! 😂
Good to see it back on the channel, it’s like seeing Leroy on Cletus channel!
Cheers Pat
nice this is a crowd favourite
Carnage subscriber since episode one when you bought the taxi, hope you enjoyed your break 👍
Yaaay the turbo taxi is back! Nice to see you are back on it Scotty!
Nice to see turbo taxi back out again. Yes it has been a long time since it fired in anger. Fingers crossed for a 10, I think it owes you a 10 by now. Don't know why but I thought you were going to say that you put a new turbo on it. Did you leave off needing a bigger turbo? Been so long I can't remember.
Yes! Let's Gooo!!!
Woooot wooot wooot
1300 booooooost hell ya
Great to see it back in action
What a bloody great attitude you have mate.
Life creates a hurdle, you just go around it and crack on.
Credit to you,
BBQ gas eh...... :-) The propane butane mix in Auto LPG is another unknown you may be battling with.
Does is make a real difference? I used to run an EB with an Intec and I swore that 100% Propane autogas from Supagas Dandy made a difference, Be curious to hear what Jason has to say about that. Nice to see TurboTaxi at the Rank again!
LPG is predominantly mix of propane and butane , propane has a higher octane rating than butane, and butane has more BTUs ( stored energy) than LPG , LPG has about 104 octane depending on the ratio of gases used.
Unless you're running into the lack of octane at 104, then you'll produce more power running on LPG than propane due to its higher BTU value.
@@craigritchie1933 LOL this much I am aware of thanks.
Its the MIX thats the unknown and it used to change and was fairly dirty depending on where you bought it running the old converter mixer setup.
Running Propane on the old system with an intec led to move punch across the board and nearly 20% better economy with rural driving especially towing.
Its the Ford Australia Developed system though that im curious about running Propane as its a smarter system.
@tony66au
The LTG LPG system I run in my Manual VY LS1 has a pre tank inline filter . This is done because it has an internal tank fuel pump and small orifices in the gas injectors. Supposedly, the filter needs regular changing however the gas kit has been on my car for 14+ years and the filter has only been changed once in that time, and it looked completely clean to the eye.
Running on LPG, the car regularly burns around 10 lph on long trips , 15 .5 lph pulling a race car on a tandem trailer at 100kph and 13.5/15.5lph driving around a rural town.
I see no measureable change of fuel usage or power with this system.
It doesn't run a separate LPG ecu as it runs directly off the factory pcm. It's been specifically tuned with my EFI Live cable to perform best on LPG.
Time for a weight loss program.
For the FG Falcon that is. PUMPMPRICE WAS $0.81.9? that is still cheap, I'm. Sydney most remaining LPG servos have LPG at $1.00.9
Also this is your garage build engine so it should be able to finally crack the 10second pass finally, but please don't go E85 just yet, keep the Taxi LPG get rego for it and use it as a the Carnage daily driver for the Wheels Media staff since fuel is still cheap in Melbourne.
Like the plan. Aint easy make horse with lpg. Thanks for tryin. Think keep my wagon as is.
YES, the taxi!!
Love the turbo taxi, can't wait to see it at Heathcote tomorrow!
WOooo ! HOOOO !!! love taxi and first !!!!
Hope ya get it mate. Been a long time coming!
0.65 lambda, hot damn that’s rich.
Was making good power before it went that rich too.
Can't believe it's four years.
I saw an El Camino in America years ago with a big block Chevy and blower on LPG, but I don’t think it was in the 8’s, I don’t think the chassis was up to it
TURBO TAXIS BACK!!!!
Stoked the taxi is back ❤
The two greatest words in the english language Scotty....... "Bigger Turbo!!!"🤣👍🍻 Is there a big Heathcote meet on this weekend saw a few trailer queens on the monash yesterday morning??
Yeah, there's a meeting this weekend.
It has been getting harder and harder to find servos with LPG here in the West, it's a pity because it's a good fuel that we have our own reserves of.
It's ridiculous, isn't it?
@@STREETMACHINETV sure is mate, best of luck squeezing more horsepower out of the taxi and also looking forward to updates on the ute!
Ol' Yeller is back
Yee-Ha! Glad to see it back.
This car got me into this channel I’ve missed it but the other projects have been great
Made my day🥰
What's green and for hire?
A taxi cabbage.
Keep up the good work Scotty.
Soo glad there's barra content again
Hard to tell if you're kidding or not
@@STREETMACHINETV I'm serious!
@@danielcudicio4100 cool, some people hate Barra's for some reason
@STREETMACHINETV how could you hate an Aussie icon like the barra. Love them, soo reliable and super easy to work on. Keep up the good work mate 👍
Speaking of AU Falcon and LPG / petrol, how is that Series I Forte you bought roughly a year ago going?
It's my daily
You bloody ripper! Uber who!
We have missed the turbo taxi
Why I didn't get this notification I have everything clicked on
The limitation here is going to be the issue of more fuel means heat with LPG and of course with more boost there is more heat. Can see the lower lambda numbers making more power but she's gotta be running on the edge. I'd be stressing at anything below 0.75-ish lambda.
The way around more heat is to do what Ford did with liquid phase injection (LPI) which allowed Ford to actually up the compression ratio on the 4.0L i6.
Of course how that would work with turbo charging is another issue.
Scotty is right when he said that Does with the EcoLpi engine went back to standard size conrods so that rules out using those green top 4.0L i6 engines flfor cheap thrills performance engines, but the LPI fuel can be used on this current set up.
The issue is does STREET MACHINE want to invest $$$ into doing that?
Which is why the vapour injection system stays in place.
That said I'm confident that Turbo Taxi will hit 10's down the 1/4 this time round as tjis is a Scotty garage build that has better internals than a clapped out taxi green too that they have been using, this engine was supposed to go into the MX5 and we know the story as to what happened there.
Let's go turbo 🚕
Oh man, so many viewers have been patently waiting for turbo taxi. I noticed it was by the roller door in the last video.
It's a shame the rego lapsed. Does that mean she's a trailer queen from now on? Or pull the gas in favour of e85 then re rego?
There are fewer of them out there now but you could swap to a tank that is in date for the reg, then do the recertification
BIGGER TURBO😃
Great to see Turbo Taxi back in the game Scotty! Also, what actually happens if you call 13 BOOST? :-)
Dunno, but we should have set something up
@@STREETMACHINETV Haha that could be interesting!
The only car to make drag challenge, the cheapest to run 'fuel wise' and survive hitting a gumtree.
Yes I remember Scotty fixing the taxi after that little misadventure, just a love tap.
Those 'yang chen sow' tyres probably didn't help.
Hopefully we can see this rig at Summernats.
Still my favourite build on the channel.
Absolutely my favourite car out of the ones that you guys do Turbo Taxi
Maybe 100 shorter nitrous, just to get you into the tens
Nitrous will just kill it
@@STREETMACHINETV
Can’t have that more carnage would not be what your looking for
All the beast for the next run
Always enjoy your channel
Hey Scotty.... promise us you’ll where a turbin on ya head when you do the 10s pass
That would be racist, and not what we are about
Hello old friend.
LPG in WA (where it comes from) $1.35 p/l, go figure…
Honey WAKE UP!!! The Turbo Taxi is BACK!?!?! 😳🤡🙏🙌🏼👍🏻💪🏼
Hooray😂
This jason guy is like the stig no one ever can see him
He doesn't like the camera
Mate you forgot to mention the stack you had, plus any car any drag car, would not do the times on melbourne roads i dont care what anyone says, even with drag radials, the surface of melbourne roads are shit and no grip, but well done Scotty for everything you have done to date with the cars you have worked on.🚗🚗✌👌😀👍
We don't race on the roads, so it doesn't matter does it?
@@STREETMACHINETVagree 100%, just mentioning how bad the roads are etc?
Put the MX5 engine in it🚕
We just sold that engine
WTF@@STREETMACHINETV
Needs the turbo from the mx-5? Or was that on loan?
Servos sell "AUTOMIX" go fill up at elgas and get actual LPG with out being diluted with butane, LPG is 110ron automix is less
Not just Snags you have ran into... George of the Jungle Hit the tree on the way to Sydney. if i Rember correctly
On the way to Portland from Swan Hill
Are you running Vapour Injector's or LPi
Vapour
👍👍👍
👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥
ok Friday vlog whooop whooop and well the 10 sec 1/4 lucky ya not ponokio lol ittttssss grown lol
I'd be interested to know what your man has to say about "LIQUID " Injected LPG.
From my experience, injecting vapour LPG will produce less power than 98 octane petrol. However, if you inject LPG at the back of the intake values, you'll make more power than running on 98 octane petrol. It likely you would have already achieved tour goals with liquid injection.
My near stock LS1 made 25 more rwks's on liquid LPG .
Would you have gone faster , guess well never know 😊
12 second to a 10 second quarter... just add 0.65 into the rear differential gear?
Doesn't work like that
Who ever owns that velocity blue xr6 needs to sell it to me