Antilag for drifting?

Any idea on if there is additional wear on the turbo when running setups like the SAS/EGR ALS?

One of the hot topics over here in our competition is the disparity between turbo 4/6 and V8. To help, nitrous has been brought up as a cost effective way to help the turbo guys gain more response. It's a little up in the air as there's nothing stopping the V8 guys throwing it on their setups. But a well setup ALS on a turbo car would seem a better option, especially as we run sections with large off-throttle decelerating entries. There's nothing stopping the turbo guys as far as i know, just needs a bit more knowledge on it I think.
 
Yes, but less than throttle bypass, and even that's not as damaging as millions of people on the internet with literally zero experience of anti-lag like to tell everyone.

The setup, the mapping of it, is more important for reliability than what kind of setup it is.
Noise doesn't equal effectiveness or reliability.

Nitrous is ridiculously effective mind, not as drivable as a proper ALS system, but for what it is, it's awesome.
Friend of mine, on a little 2ltr turbo, lowered the boost threshold over 500rpm, gained 220bhp in the midrange (the car was 670bhp before the nitrous though!), and 50bhp up top, from a little 25bhp shot of nitrous.
 
Interesting. One of the cars in our team is RB26 powered so will have a yarn to the driver about it. There are enough workshops with experience in rallying here to get it done and setup properly if nitrous doesn't get approved for this coming season.

In saying that, nitrous makes more sense. With the hotter temperatures with the season in the summer, anything that reduces intake temps nets big improvements on overall numbers and response.
 
Surprised this thread is still going. Must say I've seen a lot of Antilag in the past year or so since Team Cartu Drifting showed up in Austria with it. Their car has been going through different issues , but still keeping the antilag. There's also an E30 in Bulgaria using an agressive setup now, a guy in Romania blew the engine on his RWD Drift Spec Audi Quattro recently because of it, I've also seen Baggsy using it over in the UK, and also a 2JZ powered E92 in Slovakia. It's cool, it's probably good, but surely it has side-effects on the engine/turbo (I'm no expert in mechanics so this is just a guess)
 
Pretty sure Baggy's one isn't proper anti-lag.

Don't know about the rest, but pops and bangs and telling someone you have anti-lag don't make it anti-lag.
 
Has been running proper ALS in my s14 for more than 2 years now on the same turbo without any actual issues, other than finding good quality exhauts manifold. LC, ALS and no broken rocker arms, nothing. And I use the car for rally, so there is a lot more abuse (or atleast a lot longer) than in drifting. It all comes down to proper application and very professional tuning... I think most anti-lag systems you see on drift cars are for the show only, they just sound way off and weird.


 
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