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Turbo and Superchargers
Turbo and superchargers are engine components that pump pressurized air into the engine via a compressor. Their function is to increase the power generated by the engine by providing it with increased air pressure inside the cylinders.
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Do turbocharger substitutes such as Turbonator SpiralMax and Tornado actually work?
Absolutely, positively, NO! They are gimmicks to rid you of your money. These devices have been around since the very beginning of the automobile.
AnswerThey are junk, but the placebo effect seems to be working for a lot of people. I feel that going with smaller rims and tires to give the appearance of moving faster, and causing speedometer to read higher would be better and cheaper long term (cheaper tires) . AnswerThe Tornado and Turbonator do not claim to be turbocharger substitutes. AnswerOK they don't! Why?, no matter what rpm they spin at, or what boost they claim to make, no. A vacuum cleaner in reverse will make a boost pressure of a couple PSI, will it make your car go faster? No!No electric device will produce enough CFM for even a small car engine to benefit, I Would bet money that these pieces of crap would restrict your air flow and make your car go slower!
If you want, you can give me the money and I will partially block of your intake and you will get the same result!
AnswerThese are not electric devices, they are non-moving bent blades that spin the air as it flows past the blades. As such, they can only provide a drag to the air flow and can not increase the volume of air flow. They can however, increase the velocity of the air (depending where they are used) and that can increase the "tumble" of the air which can affect combustion efficiency.Do they increase combustion efficiency? Not very likely unless they are used very close to intake valves of the engine and even then, the flow of air past the intake valves and into the combustion cylinder is already designed to maximize combustion. Yet, there is a possibility that at very specific engine rpms, the device could provide a small increase of power.
But the higher the air flow (at high rpms) the less likely that is because the drag on the air flow caused by the bent blades will likely reduce the total air flow and therefore reduce engine power. But from personal experience on a 2001 Mustang Cobra (4.6L 32 valve) that I once owned, I can say that the sound produced by these devices is noticeable both outside and inside the car at higher rpms and that sound could easily stimulate the driver and others who hear it and give a positive impression for the device.
I installed it just prior to and inside the opening to the intake manifold. I do not think the power increased at any rpm but it was obvious to anyone there (especially for me, the owner and driver since I knew the sound of the car very well before and now after the installation) that the sound was very impressive at higher rpms. In fact,
I added a second device under the open conical air filter (spaced about 12" upstream from the first device and put it in backwards so the air would spin in the opposite direction) and I really liked the sound. The person who bought the car later loved the unique (like a miniature Vortec centrifugal supercharger) sound too.
I doubt any added power was gained at any rpm and any loss of power (and there was likely some at the highest rpms) was small enough that I did not notice it.
AnswerYes, these products do work. I had 2 Spiralmax in the intake of my Acura Integra and i did see an increase in pick up at a higher rpm, I raced an Acura just like mine and we were dead even, i installed the units and we raced once again, I pulled him by two car lengths and kept going. However, I did not notice an increase in mileage because I had a heavy foot and was not too concerned since it is a 4 cylinder. I then installed one my 97 GT Mustang and since they roast the tires off the line I really saw an increase in pick up throughout and a HUGE difference in mileage, I was able to squeeze out and extra 50 miles to the tank and that was only because i did not want to push it and run out of gas. I highly recommend spiral max and Turbonator.How much turbos can you put in a car?
Turboes are sized for a certain air flow range (lbs/min,etc.) at a certain boost level
(PR - pressure ratio), selecting the turbo/turboes to use depends on the effiecency of the motor, size of the motor, rpm operating range, intercooled or not. Boost levels depend on: how strong is the motors' internals , compression ratio, type of fuel/fuel rating. Running twin or single usually comes down to space/money, V8's are easier to twin (and junkyard turboes off a turbo 4cyl. can make it cheaper). Inline 4 run singles and inline 6cyl can run either, singles are cheaper.
What does it mean if a car is 'normally aspirated'?
A car is "normally aspirated" if it has no mechanical means of increasing the amount of air taken in by the air intake system.
Turbocharged and Supercharged cars are examples of non-naturally aspirated vehicles. Turbocharged cars use an exhaust gas driven turbine to compress intake air and force it into the engine. Superchargers use a belt driven compressor to compress air and force it into the engine's intake. This is two different ways of achieving the same thing, more oxygen equals a better hotter faster burn of the fuel source, which increase the power of the engine.
A Ram Air Intake is considered a normal means of aspiraton. A Ram Air Intake is when you have a ducted intake system that has an opening facing the direction of forward velocity slightly increasing the air preasure into the enige.
Need oil change cause what car problems?
Can cause emissions to be worse and if left long enough it can cause additional wear.
There are turbo kits for many cars, there are also generic kits.
Each come with instructions.
To build your own kit:
- Order the recommended size from the manufacturer, or get one off a wreck of similar displacement.
- The computer will have to be re-programed and a different MAP sensor used.
- Start building mounts, oil feed and drain lines, exhaust and air intake pipes.
Big job if there is not a kit for your car
Do turbos overheat on a gas powered vehicle or supercharger?
Designed, driven and maintained properly, a turbo will not overheat. Cooling is provided by oil pressure primarily. As long as that is not interrupted the turbo will be fine. The materials in a turbo, like a jet engine, are selected for their ability to operate at high temperatures (perhaps 1300 degrees f).
Lack of oil, especially when the engine is cold (thick, slow moving oil) or during heat soak after shut down (when the turbo continues spinning for awhile) can cause a bearing/seal failure. Many turbos are now water cooled and/or have timed electric oil pumps (maintains oil pressure for 2 minutes after shutdown) to help with these issues.
Turbos combined with a supercharger are very rare, costly and difficult to engineer. They are typically configured so the supercharger handles low RPM power enhancement and at some higher the turbo provides the boost. This configuration provides no unique cooling requirements.
How much does a turbo kit cost?
It depends on the type of turbo your getting most of them cost around 1 grand to 2 grand
97 Pontiac Firebird with a 3800 series II supercharger?
the dont make one you can get one made though but it has to be custom made from scratch and it is specialy made to fit the car and its going to cost alot
Can you use a blow off valve on a car without having a turbo?
you can get a fake sounding blow off valve, other wise bov's are used for force induction application.
How does a twin scroll turbocharger work?
Twin scroll turbine housing. The TST housing derives its name from the geometry of the exhaust gas inlet into the turbine. Two different-sized scrolls are generally used, a primary and a secondary. Typically, the primary is open for low-speed operation, and both for high-speed use. This creates the ability of the TST to be a small A/R housing at low speeds and a large A/R at higher speeds. TST designs are of merit in that they offer a better combination of low-speed response and high-end power. It would be difficult to configure the unit to control boost by effectively varying A/R. A wastegate is therefore still necessary to control boost pressure. Simplicity of the twin scroll turbine housing is its big selling point. [Source- "Maximum Boost" by Corky Bell] in my opinion ,predoinantly twin scroll housing is used n diesel turbocharging systems on the engines having more than 4 cylinders to reduce pulsasation of these engines . Additonaly , output of some cyliders will go one scroll and remaining in other to cut down pulsastations janmajay
Can you put a supercharger and twin turbos on a 2008 Z06 Corvette?
Yes, you can put a supercharger and twin turbos on a 2008 ZO6 Corvette..
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Empty the trunk, blow upthe tyres to the correct poundage. On modern cars get the chip mapped. There are 3 or 4 settings that can be dialled in to increase the performance with no parts changes necessary.
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Adding a supercharger will boost your car, But replacing the air filter is good for the budget, Polishing your cars pistons might also help.
Answer:Easy. New parts, upgrades, performance pats. If its a Chevy the best place to go is Edelbrock. You can make a car go faster by installing nice performance parts like turbo, nitrox, exhaust, transmission and suspension Or just buy a really fast car and you don't have to make it go faster!!! Answer:Use a turbocharger, or change the suspension system to lower the center of gravity.You can try many things to make your car faster, here are a few suggestions, have your engine serviced and tuned, remove excess weight, fit turbo charger or a nitrous oxide kit, even a good clean and polish will help (you never see a dirty F1 racing car!
Can you put a blow off valve on non-turbo 98' eclipse?
No, you cant put a blow off on a non turbo eclipse. i have a turbo eclipse gsx. My car you can but yours you cant. You have to have a turbo to have a blow off
What do you wantIt sounds like you just don't know what you want. A blow off or ( wastegate )relief valve is part of a turbocharger and releases pressure built up by the unit.If you want to shoot vapor in the air from your hood to look cool you want a Nitrous Oxide purge valve, in which case you need a nitrous system.
Turbocharged engines have a wastegate that opens to vent excess pressure to prevent the engine from receiving too much boost. A sudden overcharge of boost will lean the engine out and cause damage.
Hot rodders like to replace the stock ones with aftermarket units that deliver higher peak performance, and in the case of the uneducated hot rodder, instant aluminum scrap. Cars that whistle like a party favor may sound cool to you at a stoplight but I would not suggest buying one as a used transportation vehicle. If the maximum air flow is not controlled and compensated for by the injection computer then that engines' days are numbered.
The blow off valve is a secondary safety device after the wastegate and before the throttle plate to allow the turbo to continue to spin when the throttle plate is suddenly closed causing a back up of extremely high pressure air that normally would stop the turbo compressor cold. When the throttle plate is opened again there is a delay in getting the turbo back up to speed and producing boost. this valve vents that high pressure hammer and prevents it from slamming back into the turbo compressor.
Can you put a turbo charger on Chrysler 300?
a turbo can be put virtually anything. the problem is, you cant just put on a turbo & expect it to work, for long anyhow. to start, the internals (compression) has to be re-done in order to keep up with the increased horsepower.
What is the difference from a supercharger and a turbo?
A supercharger is belt driven and a turbocharger is exhaust driven
How do you make a 125cc bike faster?
"would it go faster if i put a bigger cog on the back wheel"
no, you need a smaller "cog" or sprocket on the back wheel to up the speed, but your still only looking at a 3% gain in top end speed. try a larger sprocket on the front eg. if you have a 15 tooth sprocket change it for a 16 or 17 tooth. this should give you up to about 10 to 15% gain at most.
if you want a bit more then you'll need to look in to rejetting the carb, free flow airfilter, change the cdi for a race or unrestricted cdi, and a free flowing exhaust to help it all on it's way. but remember that even after all these mods your still only looking at a small top end gain, after all it's still a 125cc. if your looking to bring the speed up even more than you need to find a good big bore kit, but that's a lot of work and not one i'd recomened a novice to install.
The "Mythbusters" on the discovery channel says absolutly not. Also the "Speed Channel" says they not only don't work, they could potentially damage your engine if it fails.
How do you turbo a carbureted engine?
Same as an EFI motor except the jetting needs to be adjusted. A company Muscle mustang/Fast fords uses is carburetor solutions. see link below.
Where inject hho before or after turbo on diesel engine?
HHO is BS.
An HHO generator produces a perfect stochiometric mixture of H2 and O2 gas. (If you read anywhere that their HHO system produces "H1" gas, run. Very fast. H1 exists for the half a femtosecond it takes a hydrogen atom to find and bond with another hydrogen atom.) And it requires more energy to pry water apart than you'll ever get by burning it. That energy comes, of course, from the engine in your truck. Yes, I know..."the HHO system puts more air into the cylinder." Yeah, yeah, yeah...even if you were venting the hydrogen into the air that oxygen won't do anything for you because diesels run extremely lean anyway. You can double the amount of diesel being pumped into the cylinder and still not use up all the air...we know that because one of the most popular engines made today has ratings from 400 to 565 hp and all they change to increase the hp is the injector bodies.
If you want more power from your diesel engine, first change the muffler. It will cost you between $1500 and $3000 to install an HHO system that won't actually do anything for you; for $300 you can put a very high-flow muffler on your truck that'll add 50 hp by reducing back pressure.
If you still want more hp, you can reprogram the ECU.
If you've got an old truck with a mechanical engine, after you change the muffler you can add a propane injection system. This works very well, and you can go two ways: you can inject propane to increase hp with the same amount of diesel burned, or you can keep the same hp and replace some of the diesel with propane - which lets you operate less expensively because propane's cheaper than diesel. Some guys are also running nitrous oxide, but you can usually get the same result (nitrous adds more O2 to the cylinder) by adjusting your turbo.
There is one good application for HHO. Jewelers fuel their torches with it because they don't have to store flammable gases on the premises.
Does a BOV functions on a supercharger?
Yes, a Blow Off Valve can function on a supercharger. Basically a BOV is a surge valve. It prevents the excess air from going back into the supercharger once the throttle body closes. Most superchargers will come with a by pass valve which is almost identical to a BOV. They both are used to vent the excess air out of the discharge tube so you do not get compressor surge.
They are not 'basically' the same... they function differently.
You should NEVER use a BLOW off Valve on any supercharger, only use a surge valve. There is a difference, look it up. One is normally closed except when there is vacuum on the manifold at which point its open. Blow off valves will slowly damage any centrifugal and should only be used on a turbo system....
Call procharger if you like.
Terms are usually mis-used... simiar purpose but different approach.
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You CAN use a blow off valve on a supercharger. Its all in how your system is set up to handle a BOV and how your BOV is set up(spring pressure) to handle the supercharger. Procharger was the place that told me to switch to a Blow off valve.
There are technically two types of "turbo coolers".
1. A radiator device to reduce the temperature of the compressed intake air after it's left the Turbo housing and before it reaches the engine. This is an Intercooler. Air heats up when compressed (look up the Ideal Gas Law) but cool air is denser thus carries more oxygen per unit volume. Since the fuel air mixture for combustion is tied to oxygen availability more oxygen per unit volume is desired. The Intercooler reduces the intake air temperature thus boosting combustion efficiency and reducing side effects like pre-ignition.
2. An automatic device to shut the turbocharged engine off after it has idled for several minutes. This allows the turbo housing to slowly drop in temperature from an active state to the lowest running state prior to shutdown. These devices are simply called a "turbo timer". Allowing the turbo to cool slowly extends the life of the turbo by reducing thermal stress. With some turbocharged engines such as in light aircraft this idle cooldown is mandatory.
Does a turbocharged engine require premuim fuel?
Turbo cars MUST have high octane fuel unless they are tuned for low octane. Your vehicle's service manual will tell you what fuel to put in. My manual says I must run 91 octane, and in parts of New Mexico, I could only get 90 octane off the highway. My car ran like hell because of it....
What does stage 1234 mean in the case of a turbo?
The terms "Stage 1" -"Stage 4" are an indication of the performance of the turbo. "Stage 1" turbos may be turbos that will improve engine power while most every thing on the car is stock or minimally upgraded. As you move up in the stages you need more support equipment to maintain the durability and performance. such as a "Stage 3" may/will require larger Aftermarket inter coolers, intake, exhaust, ignition mapping, and many things I've forgotten. Its generally not a good idea to put larger turbos on cars not ready to handle them as the will either burn themselves out or kill your motor.
