[Diy_efi] 10hp injected turbo

[Lee M. Lemoine]

Also worthy of mention, here in the states the Geo Metro had a clone, the
Firefly in canada... which had a turbo 3 cylinder available (1 liter gas
motor)...  Just figured i'd toss that in there.

--LL

On 1/29/06, Ernest Buckler <ebuckler at icehouse.net> wrote:
>
> >   There are very small turbos primarily for 2 and 3 cylinder diesel
> engines.
> > I have seen them in my Field Service travels.  The smallest one I saw
> was
> on
> > a Japanese engine on a water pumping unit.  From the external appearance
> the
> > compressor inlet was about 1 inch. It was a while back and I don't have
> any
> > details. I bet that engine couldn't have been more than 30 HP.
> >   Have you asked on the Junk Yard Turbo discussion group?
> > jyturbo at yahoogroups.com They are all about homebrew turbo and
> supercharged
> > setups.
>
> Small turbos - go to Briggs & Stratton site, they are presently marketing
> a
> turbo diesel 3 cyl. engine making, you guessed it, 30 hp.   Meanwhile I'll
> try to remember to measure one from a CX 500 TC, thats  500cc or 30.5
> cu.in.; I think the hot wheel is around 60 mm in diameter.  Pretty small.
> These over-square engines have 4 valve heads, turn 8000 to 10,000 rpm,
> make
> 65 to 90 hp.
>
> Ernie
>
> _______________________________________________
> Diy_efi mailing list
> Diy_efi at diy-efi.org
> http://lists.diy-efi.org/mailman/listinfo/diy_efi
>



--
Sincerely,

Lee M. Lemoine
http://www.turbochargedsoul.com/
http://www.snefools.org/
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.diy-efi.org/pipermail/diy_efi/attachments/20060129/ddd9333b/attachment.html