Turbo Lag

[cdy2179]

How do you guys feel about the turbo lag? I have a Cat6 on it and the throttle response is improved but when you get on it the the RPMs jump up almost instantly but it takes at times a full second or two to actually build boost and hit. When it hits it's a ton of power but the dang lag is not small.

This is with a custom mode I use 100 percent of the time with the transmission in Sport mode. It's annoying to want to pass someone, hit the gas, the rpms go up but you have to play the waiting game before it actually really moves to pass. The 2020 limited I had with a hemi had throttle lag but it moved as soon as the rpms went up. I'm not used to having to wait for turbos but it seems excessive.

 

[Dcchris311]

Yeah, there's going to be some lag. It's only 3 cylinders feeding each turbo that also happen to be a single scroll. Now if it was 6 cylinders feeding a larger twin scroll turbo, then you'd be spooling up in the mid 1k rpm range.

Honestly I don't mind it, im not trying to hit certain 0-60 times, I just down shift and hit it.

 

[Lsujker]

This is my first turbo vehicle. The lag is odd and takes to time to get use to but really under boosted still feels peppy. Not sports carsy though. I’m still adjusting.

So to relate, had a regular cab classic express before this. That truck with the intake diverter did the same. Wake up above 4,500 at speeds. The 5.7 was much more chill at low rpm’s. Between the two, can’t tell much of a difference with power unless pulling from a dig in where RHO hits harder. I do like the turbo wine and burp at full throttle to shift!

 

[Myers1981]

How do you guys feel about the turbo lag? I have a Cat6 on it and the throttle response is improved but when you get on it the the RPMs jump up almost instantly but it takes at times a full second or two to actually build boost and hit. When it hits it's a ton of power but the dang lag is not small.

Even in sport and baja mode?

 

[cdy2179]

Yeah, there's going to be some lag. It's only 3 cylinders feeding each turbo that also happen to be a single scroll. Now if it was 6 cylinders feeding a larger twin scroll turbo, then you'd be spooling up in the mid 1k rpm range.

Honestly I don't mind it, im not trying to hit certain 0-60 times, I just down shift and hit it.

I don't care about the 0-60 times as much but when you want to hit it quick to pass etc you hit it and then the waiting game begins before i really moves. It's more of a drivability thing.

 

[cdy2179]

Even in sport and baja mode?

Sport and baja seem to just change shift points., turn off auto stop and maybe remove a little throttle lag but that may be in my head. I have a custom mode setup with transmission in sport so really that's what I drive in 100 percent of the time so yeah. Baja shift so high it's not really a mode I want to drive in. You can be going down a subdivision road at 30 and it's screaming