Turbo Tricks

[Robert Harris]

Are these the same people that stuck a 750 hp to 1000 hp rocket turbine into 
ford 9 inch rear ends and promptly got banned by every race track in the 
universe as unfair to megabuck dragsters.  Remember seeing them for a while as 
a kid and then they went away.

If the first ingredient ain't Habanero, then the rest don't matter.
Other Obsessions: Ferro-Equinary , 1972 "Killer Whale" Mustang
Currently Interred in the Peoples Democratic Republic of California - Stalag 
Montclair
Robert Harris <bob at bobthecomputerguy.com>


-----Original Message-----
From:	Peter Lindberg [SMTP:plindb1 at gl.umbc.edu]
Sent:	Thursday, September 25, 1997 11:40 AM
To:	diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
Subject:	Re: Turbo Tricks

>>
Along similar lines there are a couple of books on how to make a working
model jet engine (turbine) and one shows briefly about a small
combustion
chamber (similar to the model jet) between the exhaust and turbo and
injecting
fuel in and getting boost at idle. Wouldn't that be interesting!! (if
your're turboed)

Dean.
<<

About 25 years ago a company called Turbonique made small rocket/jet
engines for race cars.  One of their products was a "self-powered
supercharger" -- It looked just like a large turbo, but with a
rocket/jet combustion chamber where the exhaust input would be.  I'll
leave it up to the imagination as to how much boost and extra horsepower
the thing produced. . . (and of course, lag would be nonexistant)