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Norbie Forums Junkie Location: Brisbane Registered: May 2002	Re: Turbo in a bottle? Wed, 29 January 2003 11:22 Hmmm. Getting enough compressed air into the exhaust to actually make a difference to spool-up would require an air tank bigger than the car. A nice idea, but not very practical. FWIW, some guy in the US experimented with something similar on his drag car in the 80's (I think). Top fuel drag cars have massive superchargers which require upwards of 1000hp to turn, so his idea was to let a huge tank of compressed air do the job instead. To cut a long story short, the engine was much more powerful with no supercharger to drive, but this was offset by the extra weight of the air tank and the car was slower overall. Apparently the tank was so big they had to fill it up overnight to do a single run down the quarter mile! [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Turbo in a bottle?	_ELiTeHaYDeN_	Tue, 28 January 2003 20:42
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	Rala	Tue, 28 January 2003 21:25
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	inferno	Tue, 28 January 2003 22:40
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	Norbie	Tue, 28 January 2003 22:58
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	M.W.P.	Wed, 29 January 2003 06:42
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	_ELiTeHaYDeN_	Wed, 29 January 2003 07:25
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	Norbie	Wed, 29 January 2003 11:22
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	_ELiTeHaYDeN_	Wed, 29 January 2003 11:33
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	Norbie	Wed, 29 January 2003 13:43
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	M.W.P.	Wed, 29 January 2003 16:17
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	_ELiTeHaYDeN_	Wed, 29 January 2003 20:36
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	Norbie	Wed, 29 January 2003 23:46
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	_ELiTeHaYDeN_	Thu, 30 January 2003 05:23
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	jase	Thu, 30 January 2003 05:52
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	_ELiTeHaYDeN_	Thu, 30 January 2003 06:40
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	turbokid	Thu, 30 January 2003 05:41
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	Norbie	Thu, 30 January 2003 06:41
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	_ELiTeHaYDeN_	Thu, 30 January 2003 06:49
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	Norbie	Fri, 31 January 2003 00:21
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	mrshin	Thu, 30 January 2003 10:18
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	SupraPete	Thu, 30 January 2003 10:46
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	feral4mr2	Thu, 30 January 2003 23:10
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	SupraPete	Fri, 31 January 2003 00:58
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	feral4mr2	Fri, 31 January 2003 01:05
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	SupraPete	Fri, 31 January 2003 01:14
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	feral4mr2	Fri, 31 January 2003 02:07
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	mx83toy	Fri, 31 January 2003 03:25
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	Norbie	Fri, 31 January 2003 01:34
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	crostek	Fri, 31 January 2003 01:55
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	SupraPete	Fri, 31 January 2003 02:31
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	1jzmx83	Fri, 31 January 2003 02:56
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	Norbie	Fri, 31 January 2003 03:06
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	1jzmx83	Fri, 31 January 2003 03:25
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	Norbie	Fri, 31 January 2003 04:53
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	GIN51E	Fri, 31 January 2003 11:57
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	1ndecent	Fri, 31 January 2003 18:51
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	GIN51E	Sun, 02 February 2003 09:57
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	mrshin	Sun, 02 February 2003 11:13
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	Norbie	Sun, 02 February 2003 13:52
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	_ELiTeHaYDeN_	Sun, 02 February 2003 14:31
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	feral4mr2	Sun, 02 February 2003 23:02
	Re: Turbo in a bottle?	GIN51E	Tue, 04 February 2003 08:17

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