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> OT: 90-100lbs of turbo boost!!
Rand
post Jan 27 2006, 01:39 PM
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Watching tractor pulls on ESPN2... The big alcohol-burning beasts are running three turbos, multistaged, pushing up to 100lbs of boost.
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post Jan 27 2006, 06:45 PM
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QUOTE (srbliss @ Jan 27 2006, 03:55 PM)
personally, I like the idea of the head and cylinder being one piece... That's gotta be a PITA to do a valve job.

Compressing the rings and slipping all the pistons in is probably tricky too.
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Rand   OT: 90-100lbs of turbo boost!!   Jan 27 2006, 01:39 PM
Aaron Cox   top fuel dragsters are running like 70-90 i heard ...   Jan 27 2006, 01:40 PM
alpha434   yeah. They just weld the heads on. You can do that...   Jan 27 2006, 01:48 PM
Aaron Cox   ...   Jan 27 2006, 01:50 PM
alpha434   get aluminum cylinders. Duh.   Jan 27 2006, 01:51 PM
Britain Smith   I wonder if Jake has ever tried that one? -Britai...   Jan 27 2006, 03:55 PM
Jake Raby   Nope... Just do like a Lycoming and THREAD the hea...   Jan 27 2006, 04:04 PM
stock93   Check out varible geometry turbos. Some of them ar...   Jan 27 2006, 04:20 PM
Aaron Cox   <...   Jan 27 2006, 04:44 PM
airsix   When you turbo a typeIV all the boost goes past th...   Jan 27 2006, 04:59 PM
Porcharu   <...   Jan 27 2006, 05:55 PM
airsix   <...   Jan 27 2006, 06:45 PM
r_towle   <...   Jan 27 2006, 09:12 PM


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