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- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: supercharged vehicle
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.013733.2289@nezsdc.icl.co.nz>
- From: derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Derek Tearne)
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 01:37:33 GMT
- References: <n097bt@ofa123.fidonet.org> <92258.010211QXF1@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand
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- In article <92258.010211QXF1@psuvm.psu.edu> <QXF1@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >In article <n097bt@ofa123.fidonet.org>, Larry.Mc.Donald@ofa123.fidonet.org says:
- >...
- [some details of chevy prototype tank driven supercharger deleted]
- >>... would be fed with the ***3000 psi*** ....
- >>... When the tank was depleted, the
- >>compressor would 'kick' back in and refill the tank. This gave about
- >>15 seconds of boost to the engine....
-
- >> Chevy extensively tested this system, had great luck with it,
- >>then buried it.
- >>
-
- >
- >I am not familiar with superchargers. But that 3000psi sure made me nervous. It
- >is about the pressure of those bottled gases that I deal everyday in my lab.
- >Something with this level of pressure should be handled very carefully. I
- >believe this tank will kill the driver like a bomb if the car crashes. Don't
- >forget the pressure inside the cyclinder is just about 200psi and four of them
- >will be enough to drive a several thousand pound car up to 85 mph.
-
- Perhaps these are the reasons this project was buried. A whole 15 seconds
- of boost probably didn't warrant such dangerous equipment. That coupled
- with what happens after 15 seconds - just as you have almost overtaken that
- really long truck and theres a car coming towards you at 70 miles an hour
- and - woah wheres the power gone... Blam - thousands of dollars of panel
- damage. Fortunately there is no air left in the tanks to explode!
-
- Might have drag racing applications but I don't think it sounds like the
- sort of thing most people would want in their cars.
-
-
- --
- Derek Tearne. -- derek@nezsdc.icl.co.nz -- Fujitsu/ICL New Zealand --
- Some of the more aware dinosaurs were worried about the environmental
- consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.
- "If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
-