Carnage - Turbo Taxi Is Alive, and Making More Power!

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8 ай бұрын

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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@scottfromme4603 8 ай бұрын

So happy to see the Taxi back,going to wear my Turbo Taxi shirt today to celebrate!😊

@garrylawless6758 8 ай бұрын

More drama I would bet on as Ur dyno session usually are

@Devastator0 8 ай бұрын

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!

@AWAKEALIVELIVIN 8 ай бұрын

Same ere

@danozism 8 ай бұрын

Yep, it was Turbo Taxi that got me hooked on Carnage, all those years ago! "-)

@SHOCKcustoms 8 ай бұрын

Love this rig. Streeters are better to watch than drag monsters 😂

@VT97Calais 8 ай бұрын

As an owner of an ECOLPI XR6 ❤this direction you are heading with this car 🎉💯

@FKNSND 8 ай бұрын

Can’t believe it’s been that long. I loved this whole series on taxi.

@LV-FOURTWENTYSIX 8 ай бұрын

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.

@DodgyBrothersEngineering 8 ай бұрын

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.

@benpaganoni1849 8 ай бұрын

@@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

@DodgyBrothersEngineering 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@camandjaiden 8 ай бұрын

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!

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

We could try that.

@camandjaiden 8 ай бұрын

@@STREETMACHINETV Here's one of the full boost vids I saw on it..

@John-ok6sq 8 ай бұрын

The smile on Scotty's face.... he loves that car. And so do I.

@DodgyBrothersEngineering 8 ай бұрын

I think it is a bit of a love / hate relationship. Scotty has put in the hard work, but she refuses to put out.

@johnkirkilis34 8 ай бұрын

I missed Turbo Taxi, I'm glad to see Mr Taxi back in action. ❤

@LucaS-es7ud 8 ай бұрын

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.

@DodgyBrothersEngineering 8 ай бұрын

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.

@lancecooper4646 8 ай бұрын

Yeah totally agree & run the eco-lpi setup 👍

@stoneshrink 8 ай бұрын

love it, as an American who's only played with propane power - this is really interesting to continue watching.

@1969Risky 8 ай бұрын

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!

@palacefords 8 ай бұрын

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.

@Persistence74 8 ай бұрын

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!

@MrPhils1958 8 ай бұрын

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.

@billystergiopoulos8025 8 ай бұрын

Happy days are back❤watching from Thailand Scotty 🇹🇭 🎉tuk tuk

@greebo7857 8 ай бұрын

Naughty boy! UVP requires you remove the plates....😆 Good to see the crazy cab again.

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

I figured I'd leave them because of the LPG tags in case of an emergency

@nopadelik9286 8 ай бұрын

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 😁

@Scott-The-Great 8 ай бұрын

Ah, 13 "BOOST" is back, nice!

@jesus_built_my_hotrod 8 ай бұрын

so happy to see the taxi back again. been waiting ages for this.

@aussieausdeutschland4245 8 ай бұрын

Good to see the Taxi back on the ranks

@ReedyCreek28 8 ай бұрын

Family commitments? teaching the Misses how to weld on the MR2? ;)

@lukeclarke1068 8 ай бұрын

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.

@greghall8419 8 ай бұрын

Bloody awesome Scotty, so good to see turbo taxi back!

@gelousi 8 ай бұрын

Good to meet you today at hpr hope you had a great day!

@dizzyborden3618 8 ай бұрын

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.

@BigPhatPartyGuy 8 ай бұрын

Hope ya get it mate. Been a long time coming!

@kippen64 8 ай бұрын

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.

@jamesbaylis9438 8 ай бұрын

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. ❤❤

@zappy7393 8 ай бұрын

I saw it in the background in the last vid and was excited to see it...and now...here it is ladies and gentlemen!

@LRogan520 8 ай бұрын

The OG taxi nice to see a video on it. Still, that's good power already.

@mahcooharper9577 8 ай бұрын

Love the turbo taxi, can't wait to see it at Heathcote tomorrow!

@nickrynenberg4364 8 ай бұрын

Yaaay the turbo taxi is back! Nice to see you are back on it Scotty!

@jaybancroft2851 8 ай бұрын

Great to see it back in action

@runnersp1985 8 ай бұрын

Yes!!! We’ve missed this.

@colinmiles9390 8 ай бұрын

Taxi is sounding better than ever, be good to see the old girl back on the track 👊👍👌💪

@julianalderson3938 8 ай бұрын

Like the plan. Aint easy make horse with lpg. Thanks for tryin. Think keep my wagon as is.

@panelvanman7671 8 ай бұрын

there is a V8 LPG XF panel van that holds the Record at Lake Gairdner @ 172 MPH , somewhere around that

@dancoope256 8 ай бұрын

Good job Scotty, show us some 10’s mate!!

@rikturna 8 ай бұрын

What a bloody great attitude you have mate. Life creates a hurdle, you just go around it and crack on. Credit to you,

@lukeya1983 8 ай бұрын

I first started watching carnage = turbo taxi My number 1

@TechIOwn 8 ай бұрын

Carnage subscriber since episode one when you bought the taxi, hope you enjoyed your break 👍

@DodgyBrothersEngineering 8 ай бұрын

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.

@frankhauptle2744 Ай бұрын

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

@steverepko5499 8 ай бұрын

Stoked the taxi is back ❤

@kangawallafox85 8 ай бұрын

This car got me into this channel I’ve missed it but the other projects have been great

@TURBOTRISTO 8 ай бұрын

nice this is a crowd favourite

@PaddyBoy644 8 ай бұрын

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

@rigsey6003 8 ай бұрын

The turbo-taxi isn't the prettiest car in the carnage garage, but it sounds amazing. Love turbo-taxi

@LeftIsBest001 Ай бұрын

The beloved Taxi ❤ I don't wanna hear talk of E85.. sacrilege!!!

@351tgv 8 ай бұрын

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.

@tony66au 8 ай бұрын

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!

@craigritchie1933 8 ай бұрын

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.

@tony66au 8 ай бұрын

@@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.

@craigritchie1933 8 ай бұрын

@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.

@mitchgoated3887 8 ай бұрын

Made my day🥰

@MrMdub87 8 ай бұрын

Yes! Let's Gooo!!!

@xozindustries7451 8 ай бұрын

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

@Doc_in_the_carpet_truck 8 ай бұрын

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??

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, there's a meeting this weekend.

@mangomcpoo475 8 ай бұрын

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

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

LPG makes it unique but we are at it's absolute limits and we're sick of throwing engines at it.

@VLdose-cc9do 8 ай бұрын

Hopefully we can see this rig at Summernats.

@Kneedragon1962 8 ай бұрын

Yee-Ha! Glad to see it back.

@jenibond 8 ай бұрын

WOooo ! HOOOO !!! love taxi and first !!!!

@wobblysauce 8 ай бұрын

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

@nukenuked5749 8 ай бұрын

Woooot wooot wooot 1300 booooooost hell ya

@bunning63 8 ай бұрын

Can't believe it's four years.

@MrSamcro1976 8 ай бұрын

Let's go turbo 🚕

@andygeorge6065 8 ай бұрын

YES, the taxi!!

@alexmann3309 8 ай бұрын

0.65 lambda, hot damn that’s rich. Was making good power before it went that rich too.

@kenny1034 8 ай бұрын

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.

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

It's ridiculous, isn't it?

@kenny1034 8 ай бұрын

@@STREETMACHINETV sure is mate, best of luck squeezing more horsepower out of the taxi and also looking forward to updates on the ute!

@351tgv 8 ай бұрын

Speaking of AU Falcon and LPG / petrol, how is that Series I Forte you bought roughly a year ago going?

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

It's my daily

@danielh_ 8 ай бұрын

TURBO TAXIS BACK!!!!

@i976scirocco3 8 ай бұрын

Ol' Yeller is back

@michaelblair4744 8 ай бұрын

What's green and for hire? A taxi cabbage. Keep up the good work Scotty.

@michaelb5330 8 ай бұрын

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

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

Nitrous will just kill it

@michaelb5330 8 ай бұрын

@@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

@danielcudicio4100 8 ай бұрын

Soo glad there's barra content again

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

Hard to tell if you're kidding or not

@danielcudicio4100 8 ай бұрын

@@STREETMACHINETV I'm serious!

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

@@danielcudicio4100 cool, some people hate Barra's for some reason

@danielcudicio4100 8 ай бұрын

@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 👍

@astrawally8448 8 ай бұрын

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.

@351tgv 8 ай бұрын

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.

@danozism 8 ай бұрын

Great to see Turbo Taxi back in the game Scotty! Also, what actually happens if you call 13 BOOST? :-)

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

Dunno, but we should have set something up

@danozism 8 ай бұрын

@@STREETMACHINETV Haha that could be interesting!

@Low760 8 ай бұрын

Needs the turbo from the mx-5? Or was that on loan?

@mattkeeble1984 8 ай бұрын

Still my favourite build on the channel.

@mikey380sx 8 ай бұрын

You bloody ripper! Uber who!

@ibitconsulting4988 8 ай бұрын

Hooray😂

@johnwalters6025 8 ай бұрын

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?

@lkolo222 8 ай бұрын

We have missed the turbo taxi

@A.R.C.77 8 ай бұрын

Why I didn't get this notification I have everything clicked on

@hespie1 8 ай бұрын

BIGGER TURBO😃

@7071t6 8 ай бұрын

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.🚗🚗✌👌😀👍

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

We don't race on the roads, so it doesn't matter does it?

@7071t6 8 ай бұрын

@@STREETMACHINETVagree 100%, just mentioning how bad the roads are etc?

@dinosshed 8 ай бұрын

The only car to make drag challenge, the cheapest to run 'fuel wise' and survive hitting a gumtree.

@TechIOwn 8 ай бұрын

Yes I remember Scotty fixing the taxi after that little misadventure, just a love tap.

@dinosshed 8 ай бұрын

Those 'yang chen sow' tyres probably didn't help.

@chefcamsey1375 8 ай бұрын

👍👍👍🔥🔥🔥

@MrZillaman73 8 ай бұрын

Are you running Vapour Injector's or LPi

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

Vapour

@warrenscarlett9302 8 ай бұрын

👍👍👍

@cze33e 8 ай бұрын

Hello old friend.

@geoffmcwiggan2814 8 ай бұрын

Hey Scotty.... promise us you’ll where a turbin on ya head when you do the 10s pass

@STREETMACHINETV 8 ай бұрын

That would be racist, and not what we are about

@veganstein276 8 ай бұрын

Australia horribly dropped the ball on auto LPG, imagine if it kept momentum in the aftermarket with better ecus and hardware ... we'd have super hi-po combos on 90cents a litre

@craigritchie1933 8 ай бұрын

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 😊