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Old 09-21-2010, 01:48 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by seanm@stillen View Post
The electric fans, are not a good idea. Most of the time they are not designed for a harsh environment like a engine compartment. They may move "some" air, but an engine moves a very good volume of air, and we could do the math, but at a point, the fan becomes a restriction to flow.

Super- turbo charger? The actual early name for a turbocharger is a superturbocharger.

From Wikipedia - "Early manufacturers of turbochargers referred to them as "turbosuperchargers". A supercharger is an air compressor used for forced induction of an engine. Logically then, adding a turbine to turn the supercharger would yield a "turbosupercharger". However, the term was soon shortened to "turbocharger". This is now a source of confusion, as the term "turbosupercharged" is sometimes used to refer to an engine that uses both a crankshaft-driven supercharger and an exhaust-driven turbocharger, often referred to as twincharging."

Now, twin charging. Its been done. Its interesting. Expensive and complicated. They are interesting design exercises , but honestly not worth all the hassles.

I was in the US Navy for 6 years, and I worked on control systems for Detroit Diesels. 16V149T. Those are 16 cylinder in a V configuration , 149 cubic inches per cylinder , turbo charged. Actually they were twin supercharged, and quad turbocharged. Two superchargers feeding each supercharger. 2 stroke, noisy, nasty thing that Detroit. It did make about 1700 hp, and turned right on about 1800 rpms to make 1000 kW of power. They work, they are common, but complicated.

The electric ones, GARBAGE. PLEASE do not buy one of those. I have a buddy that actually tried to put one of those on his old '88 civic.. destroyed his engine. Something broke on start-up, went right into the engine and destroyed it.

@Sean- 7 years, still active, Navy. Those diesels are somethin else. I'd like to see an LM2500 powered Camaro, haha.
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