Thread: Remote Turbo's?

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

All of the above. Main problem is owners with high expectations, long pockets, and poor recall of advice and recommendations. Pressure charging engines not designed to be so, is a complex frustrating business. Spend enough time and money and progress can be made but not always to the expectations or needs of the owner. The gear was usually brought to me to fit or fix something bought or started by someone else. Most common are the owners who think bunging a blower or hairdryer on their 10yo supermarket trolley will make it into a supercar. Does not happen!!! For a street car, a blower that puffs max. 8psi over atmospheric will give good low speed torque without too many problems. If you want to get and use 16psi boost then expect big bills and problems. I am speaking of petrol engines.

That would be 8psi over the vacume of a lead foot, say .5 bar thats nearly 1\2 a KG at ISO or only 1\4 KG at 70Deg C.

But i agree with you, i would build Nos Kitts, simple maths. first question was how much more HP, second question was how long do you wish for it to Last.

But Cool always works, big turbos big boost = heat and heat doint work.
One converstion i saw on a sportsman Lotus Espri was the air intake was though a aircon driven cooler, if you do the maths it makes sence to a point

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

All of the above. Main problem is owners with high expectations, long pockets, and poor recall of advice and recommendations. Pressure charging engines not designed to be so, is a complex frustrating business. Spend enough time and money and progress can be made but not always to the expectations or needs of the owner. The gear was usually brought to me to fit or fix something bought or started by someone else. Most common are the owners who think bunging a blower or hairdryer on their 10yo supermarket trolley will make it into a supercar. Does not happen!!! For a street car, a blower that puffs max. 8psi over atmospheric will give good low speed torque without too many problems. If you want to get and use 16psi boost then expect big bills and problems. I am speaking of petrol engines.

In reality, if you put a turbo or blower on anything and give it a bit of boost, you will get a power increase regardless. Way back (8 years ago) when i was a wet behind the ears p plate deiver, i replaced my ac compressor with a toyota SC14 supercharger to my 300tdi defender ute. Fitted a 90m pulley and fed it through the turbo. Now before you say this would not work due to the blower being at lower boost than the turbo, It did pull 2nd gear cherpies with 33s, and was quicker with standard gearing and 38 inch tyres than my fathers stockie defender. All wrong in theory and all right in real life. It lasted 10000kms before i pulled it off the road to make it into a bushranger, but thats another story.

Andy