Let's use drinking soup as an example.
When a car drove forward normally, air flowed through the intake at the front and along the pipes into the engine, much like scooping up the soup in front of you with a ceramic soup spoon from home.
Increasing the speed stat produced an immediate improvement equivalent to replacing an ordinary eating spoon with a chef's ladle, or a gourd dipper used for scooping water.
With the same amount of soup available, you could drink it far more efficiently.
A turbo, meanwhile, was like bringing over a pump and forcing soup into your mouth under pressure.
When Shen Qi heard that the intake pipe had burst, he wasn't surprised.
The game item [Compatible Turbo] was more complicated to tune than other components, so back then, they had only added branches to the intake and exhaust pipes that could connect to a turbo. It hadn't cost much.
A burst intake pipe was understandable. Shen Qi could simply go without [Compatible Turbo] for the next two races; the branch added to the intake pipe didn't add much weight.
A busted exhaust pipe was another matter.
You could do without extra air coming in, but you couldn't stop expelling exhaust.
If the exhaust pipe cracked, leaking exhaust would spray into the car's interior. Waste gases were one thing, but sometimes compressed gas with energy that hadn't been fully consumed would also be expelled.
With unstable Type Energy accumulating while the car was being driven hard, it might just blow itself up.
"There's an even more serious problem."
Little Sheep had already been raised on the lift, exposing its entire undercarriage.
Huzang tapped the hood with a silver spoon. There seemed to be signs of an energy leak inside.
In a gasoline-powered car, this would be the