Could a guy install a remote starter and use it in place of an overpriced turbo timer? Most remore starters will run for 15 minutes before automatically shutting down and you can buy them for $100 or less, plus you'd get the goodies like remote trunk and door locks as well as alarm outputs. Most remote starters are intended for automatics but it's easy enough to get past the clutch override switch, you'd just have to make sure you used your parking brake and left the tranny out of gear, which shouldn't be a problem since you'd have to do so when running an ordinary turbotimer. What do you think?

You can pick up a turbo timer for 90 bucks same as or less then your remote starter. Plus with the turbo timer you can set the length of time your car runs to the way you drive it, you can have several settings.

Nice, where can a guy buy one that cheap? I thought they were several hundred upward of $300.

I think you were thinking of boost controllers they cost alot more than a turbo timer. I am getting the Blitz unit FATT DC (http://www.blitz-na.com/NA_ProductsFATTDC.html). Small compact remote unit looks sweet too. BUt you can check out others like greddy, apexi , ect. I am pretty sure they all retail for around 100 bucks.

Or build your own for around $20.

or you could buy a stopwatch for $3 at K-Mart, and wait in your car to turb it off. :p

heh- "build your own?"- says Lamar while scratching head.
explain or describe please.

If you don't care about what it looks like, a simple 8 pin 555 timer IC (about $0.35), some resistors and capacitors (another $0.70), buttons, case ($2.00) and a relay ($3.50) would build yourself a turbo timer.

Press the button and the engine will remain on until the 555 times out.


If you want to get fancy, use a $1.00 microcontroller and program all the various delays you want, add a transistor and relay and you're done.


(I haven't looked on the web but I'm sure that someone has already done this, put the plans on the web, and probably even given part numbers of what to get and order from a mail order electronics house. If you can't find one in a week, drop me a note and I'll design one.)

not to be an asshole or nothing, but if you have dropped the money into a turbo kit, just spend about 1% or so of what you already invested and buy a friggin turbo timer or at least get creative and build one. 15 minutes is way overkill also. also bypassing the clutch switch on a 5 speed is not a real bright idea. i'm sure you all know, but if you have your car in gear and you happen to push the button, your car fires up and takes off. i can already hear the lawsuits. plus a turbo timer kinda protects itself. if you hook the decent ones up right, they won't time shit if your don't have the ebrake on, and if you are timing your car, walk away and some jackass gets in your car thinking he got an easy one, as soon as he drops the ebrake your car dies. if you are up to snuff on your expensive turbo car, you also have an alarm, and as soon as the car shuts off when the jackass drops the ebrake handle, the alarm is armed. so you either have jackass sitting in your car wondering what the hell happened so you can rip him out of the car and pulverize him, or your door is wide open, but your car is still there. :)

Is there a way to use a turbo timer and your alarm system at the same time without your alarm going off due to vibration?

example:

After hard night of driving you decide to go to the bar. You want to have your car running to build up oil pressure but you don't want anyone getting in your car and stealing all you stuff. What would you do?

Alex
95 200sx SE-R Turbo

You could very easily use a relay operated by the turbo timer that would kill power to your shock sensor while it is running and your pin switches would still protect the car. Once the timer timed out, the relay would lose power and close the circuit on the shock sensor power so that it would turn on. You'd have to test it though to make sure that powering up the shock sensor that late didn't trigger the alarm, and if you have current sensing, it would be very likely that when the shock sensor powered up it would trigger the alarm's current sensing, but I'm not sure if the alarm senses current chages within it's own system or how exactly that works.

Why not just buy a turbo timer? I probably will or if it is something that a novice electronics person can build then I'll do that, but my project has already gone $1000 over my initial budget, so I'm looking to cut corners where it might make a significant dollar difference but won't effect performance.

I have the HKS type1 but like I said my car has been broken into once and I don't want it to happen again. Have you ever done this before? I am not that much of a electro person so your help would be great. Thanks

Alex

there are some alarms out there now that you can add a turbo timer to them to add some fuel in the fire. totally programmed with the alarm so when the timer goes off, your alarm is armed :)

PIC Turbo timer Plus (http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Track/7284/picproject1.html)

Here it is for about 150 bucks you could build this.

Unless you already have the supplies for making a PCB
and A programer for Programing a PIC microcontoller.

then it should only cost you about 75 bucks and it really trick.

If anyone is interested in building this let me know and maybe we could build it together to save some of the cost of the PCB and Programer.