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- From: danapple@vicor.com
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Supercharged vehicles
- Message-ID: <9209101817.AA07771@wotke.vicor.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 18:17:43 GMT
- References: <1992Sep09.220337.4671@lobo.rmhs.colorado.edu>
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- > seanr@lobo.rmhs.colorado.edu (Sean Reifschneider) writes:
- > In article <1992Sep8.161221.28786@athena.cs.uga.edu> dug@athena.cs.uga.edu (D
- > ouglas Brown) writes:
-
- > Since a Turbo runs off of the exhaust, it's esentially running off of waste
- > energy.
-
- Not entirely true. That pressure is created by the pistons pushing
- the exhaust gasses out of the cylinders. So having more backpressure
- is going to cause more resistance to the motion of the pistons on the
- exhaust stroke.
-
- Unless, of course, the turbo runs off the *heat* of the exhaust. Does
- it?
-
- > I always
- > thought they should use a clutch on it so that when you don't want it on,
- > it isn't. Otjust have the clutch engage when the throttle is open a
- > cartain percent...
-
- > Would an electronic clutch work for this?
-
- Max, as in Mad Max, had a clutch on his supercharger. The first
- generation MR2 used a magnet clutch to allow the drive to choose
- whether the supercharger was in use or not. I *assume* this magnet
- clutch was just a heavier duty version of an A/C compressor clutch.
-
- (Yes, fiction and fact flow together in mind to form a continuum of
- experiences.)
-
- > Sean
-
- Daniel I. Applebaum | danapple@vicor.com | 1986 Celica Supra "NVR DNF"
- "When the car is airborne nothing works, the brakes don't work,
- steering doesn't work, the gas pedal doesn't work, nothing works !!"
- --- Gerry Brinkman "Principles of Rallying" #2
-