Electrical Supercharger / Turbo Anti-lag

[George M. Dailey]

Inject water in the exhaust manifold, it'll flash to steam and yeild instant
boost. Make sure it vaporizes before it hits the turbo blades.

GMD

At 02:36 PM 5/9/97 -0000, you wrote:
>How about an electronic anti-lag?
>
>Compressor, get about 15psi happening, and a little tank, big solenoid,
release it into the exhaust manifold.  Would that work?
>
>How does the anti-lag work on the Mitsubishi EVO4's?
>
>geoff
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	avos at cochlear.com.au [SMTP:avos at cochlear.com.au]
>Sent:	Friday, May 09, 1997 7:11 PM
>To:	diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
>Subject:	Re: Electrical Supercharger
>
>     
>     In the interest of efficiency though, the turbo is still the way to go 
>     since kinetic/thermal energy in the exhaust is essentially free 
>     anyway. Perhaps the problem of lag in turbos may be solved by 
>     producing a turbo that has an electrical propulsion when not enough 
>     exhaust gases are being produced. This would be efficient, as at low 
>     revs the engine does not consume as much gas, so the electrical 
>     propulsion could be relatively low power, but at higher revs when 
>     higher intake flows are required, the exhaust propulsion will be up to 
>     the task.
>     
>
>
>
George M. Dailey
gmd at tecinfo.com