Hi,

I saw a race between 2 camaros on TV yesterday, they are from an F_Body Club here in Mexico, the objective of the race was to demonstrate if turbo or supercharger was better, in fact the program was so poor in technical information, but the one with the Turbo Camaro, mentioned he went to San Antonio Texas to get this Exhaust Turbo, installed in the Exhaust system and that it adds 50% of power to the 310 HP Stock. This with the turbo won the race.

HAve you heard about it?


Alex

By the way how do i add my sig pic to the posts?

Same way as adding a pic to your post. Only you have to go to your profile. Click on your name.
A new screen will pop up you'll see an option to edit profile. Scroll down till you see the section for signature then type in the same way you post a pic on the thread. Easy. For the Exhaust sounds more like he had a customizer tune the exhaust to match his power needs. There is quite a bit of science that goes into an exhaust system to get the best all around performance out of an engine.

I did it that way but only appears the link, not the pic like yours


Alex

type "[img]" before the link and "[/img]" after the link. But do it without the quotes.

A turbo charger does run off of the exhaust.
Might be just a regular turbo unit he's talking about.

well he talk about it almost as a pilot product, in fact he said that he was one of the first ones in use it, and could be one of the first ones in complain.
I think it was installed near bumper by the tips, but i don't know they were not so specific.

look this is what i told you about, i've never seen one of this.

http://www.camaro-transam.com/personales/aletz28/pers_aletz28.htm

Hmm that's different


I wonder if it's in the rear because there is no room for a turbo up front on the Fbody.

thats exactly what it looks like, he kept the stock hood cause a turbo on top of that motor would mean a new hood,right?. looks like a dam good sleeper to me.

you know FMC kept there stock hood on those V-8 powered T-Birds, i think it was 97 or 98, the years they came with V-6`s. to keep the stock hood because the V-8 was too tall was they had to shorten the F.I. plenums to fit, thats why that V-8 was a little lacking a power..JAT

So...a supercharger is for induction and a turbo for exhaust??

You're right Herc. I've seen it done on a Lincoln LS. There's nowhere else to put it. It obviously loses some performance by doing it, but it' still an upgrade.

a supercharger is a belt or gear driven compressor that force feeds the engine...a turbo uses the exhaust gas to spin a impeller that shares a common shaft with the turbine that compresses the intake tract...usually turbos reqire some rpms before they can deliver positive boost (this is where you hear the terms "turbo lag" or "spooling up" where as the belt drive of the supercharger gives instant throttle response because its being driven by the engine itself. The drag of the supercharger becomes higher with rpms...this is why drag racers opt for superchargers and sustained high rpm road race engines usually go with turbos.

so the supercharger allows to maintain MPG low right?, for example, my GT has the same MPG than a GTP, until they push the gas??

Alex

I've never seen a Turbo unit installed at the rear of the car.
I don't like the idea of having my air intake at the rear of the car, facing back. Wouldn't that cause the intake to not work at it's full potential? Kinda' drawing air out of the intake instead of forcing it in.

Another thing to add to this:

Turbo lag exists because it takes a certain amount of exhaust output to get the turbo spooled up. When you hear of Twin Turbo cars, often times it will be a small turbo that will spool up first to help with low end, and then a large turbo that will lag until higher rpm's kick it in.