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TBP (or Turbo Boost Phenomenon to the Saab newbies) is an essential feature of Saab ownership. For those who have not experienced this amazing wonder, the best way to imagine it is to hire a dvd of the classic 80's documentaries "Knight Rider".
"Turbo Boost KITT" you have to exclaim! Without prior warning you find yourself losing consciousness due to the blood draining from your brain. The phenomenal acceleration pushes you past all the other traffic on the road, and soon the Saab aerodynamics take over and you are airborne, flying above the gridlock, hanging onto the steering wheel for grim death as your feet trail horizontally behind you somewhere near the rear parcel shelf, rapidly filling not only with blood, but also with the grey matter from your brain which has migrated there through the sheer force exerted by the dormant Swedish viking fury living under your right foot.
"FI FAN!!" you exclaim... the natural Swedish curse automatically loaded to your brain via the car's wifi bluetooth C-Bus network when you start the car....
With luck you will have lost consciousness by this point, but for the Saab passionerad - used to the g-forces involved - it is a mentally torturous trip into the fringe of the netherworld and back in store. Fire and brimstone, ghosts and goblins, images of the the Governator swimming in a ladle of molten steel................
Fortunately you will not see any of this, as your sight is completely blurred by the ovalising of your eyeballs. Complete loss of bodily function is an unfortunate and regular consequence of TBP, so you best get well acquainted with your local pharmacist or nursing home.
The often bemoaned failure of the DIC is your only friend in this situation, slowing you to below the speed of light and bringing the goings on around you back within the realms of quantum physics - and you wondered why they designed something so relatively prone to failure... tsk tsk... oh ye of little faith...
Sorry... humour on the Saabnet seems something too sparsely applied. I couldn't resist. :-)
Truth is, with a low pressure turbo 9-5 V6, if you can feel the turbo coming on something has gone wrong. It is an invisible friend, its pressurinsation boosting the volumetric efficiency of your engine at low rpm and providing an effortless surge of torque almost from idle.
Cheers
Steve
posted by 59.167.5...
, Mon, 6 Feb 2006 06:45:07
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