"Rear" Turbo

[fastpakr]

You'd also only get high boost at higher road speeds. Forget low speed acceleration because the driveshaft wouldn't be turning fast enough.

 

[Original_Ranger84]

The running it off the drive was a joke guys... lol I didn't say it was smart i just said thats the only way it would really work under the car...

 

[Frank The Tank]

Twin turbo's cure the lag issue. You pretty much have instant boost.

My friends truck just turned 850 hp with no spray running twins. He's building an engine just for the purpose of breaking a thousand next month. he sled pulls. Twins are awesome!!!! btw, I would run up to 70psi, with a 66mm inlet, He's turning more, Nothing sounds as awesome as two massive turbos.

Several years back a man turbo'd a roots blower on a cummins engine....... very interesting, not as effective as twins but def. cool.

I'm thinking that if exhaust was a through frame mount system, then it would tuck the turbo up enough that it wouldn't have clearence issues, and if you can "tub" a car or truck for tires, you could "tub" a car or truck for turbo's.

Frank

 

[86 slo-vo]

rear mount turbo's are far from optimum...turbo's run off of the expanding gas from the exhaust..not just the exhaust air or howevere you want to say it

as for centrifugal superchargers go... i wouldnt exactly call them a belt driven trubo, they dont have much in common pretty much everything from the front scroll back is different

turbo is where its at when it comes to power adders nothing is more efficient.

 

[bcost882]

with an open downpipe my buddys subaru sounded like a semi spoolin up it is all depending on the exhaust. the engine sounded diffrent but the turbo had the exact same whistle. it was eerie.

 

[heptofite]

as for the turbo/super debate.

a tubo is actually a "turbosupercharger" because it's a turbine driven supercharger versus a belt driven one.

so, it wouldn't be called a belt driven turbo, because the only thing that makes a turbo a turbo is the method of drive: the turbine sitting in the exhaust stream.

 

[nate09]

No.............. it's a belt driven turbo.

a supercharger is belt driven and sits on top of the intake........ a belt driven turbo can be put anywhere it has access to the belt drive, it looks just like a turbo but cut in half.

Frank

you were thinking of a roots style supercharger

as for the turbo/super debate.

a tubo is actually a "turbosupercharger" because it's a turbine driven supercharger versus a belt driven one.

so, it wouldn't be called a belt driven turbo, because the only thing that makes a turbo a turbo is the method of drive: the turbine sitting in the exhaust stream.

NHRA's website describes a supercharger as "A crank-driven air/fuel-mixture compressor, also called a blower." where as a turbo charger is "An exhaust-driven intake air compressor."