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  1. Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!tedebear
  3. From: tedebear@leland.Stanford.EDU (Theodore Chen)
  4. Subject: Re: Supercharged vehicles
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep12.175527.5079@leland.Stanford.EDU>
  6. Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
  7. Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
  8. References: <1992Sep8.161221.28786@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1992Sep09.220337.4671@lobo.rmhs.colorado.edu> <BuDG3L.E52@acsu.buffalo.edu>
  9. Distribution: rec.autos, rec.autos.tech, rec.autos.sport
  10. Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 17:55:27 GMT
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  13. In article <BuDG3L.E52@acsu.buffalo.edu> v058l789@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Ethan A Bowerman) writes:
  14. >In article <1992Sep09.220337.4671@lobo.rmhs.colorado.edu>, seanr@lobo.rmhs.colorado.edu (Sean Reifschneider) writes...
  15. >>Would an electronic clutch work for this?
  16. >
  17. >    Yes, an electronic clutch would work- but it would be prohibitivly
  18. >expensive.  You can't have JUST a clutch- the clearances within the 
  19. >supercharger are not adequate for much air/fuel mixture flow.  You would need
  20. >a seperate intake path for when the 'charger isn't running.  
  21.  
  22. didn't the late MR2 supercharged have an electronic clutch
  23. for the supercharger?
  24. -teddy
  25.