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From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: turbos and other superchargers
Message-ID: <513@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 08:26:59 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 08:26:59 1986
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In article <511@imsvax.UUCP> ted@imsvax.UUCP writes:
>
>....  This is the
>one situation in which the turbocharger doesn't quite get it, due to the
>fact that it only comes on at (relatively) higher rpms, whereas the boast
>from the belt-driven supercharger is there from jump.  

Although I don't think we'll ever see even a remotely successful turbomotor
for drag-racing, the high-revs problem is slowly changing as a number of
automakers are developing movable `scrolls' to change the intake parameters
on their turbos.


(wow, mom, a one-sentence posting.  Oops, I just blew it)
-dave
-- 
David Hsu	Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department
<disclaimer>	University of Maryland,  College Park, MD 20742
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