Re: turbo theories Part ???

[esw5@postoffice2.mail.cornell.edu (Ernest Wong)]

[from Rod Wiggins]

[stuff deleted about Pikes Peak car]

>  This seems like a good solution for street applications. An air tank
>could be mounted in the trunk which could be easily refilled at any
>service station. A solenoid could be used from a nitrous oxide kit which
>woul be triggered from a closed-throttle switch. The only problem would
>be perhaps a confused reading at the 02 sensor and possible problems with
>the cat. But I'm not sure how the additional air would affect these. The
>compressed air would probably help cool the turbo a little. Its surely
>easier on the turbo than would the little "backfires" caused by injecting
>fuel. Done correctly it would shurely be more effective than bypass valve.
>
Don't air expanding when going from high to low pressure cool the
surrounding environment. Example: letting air out of tire cools one's
finger and the valve.
My thermodynamics is very rusty so I can be waaay off base. But this set-up
would help cool the turbo vanes by the cool air injection and the expansion
of the air itself.
my 2 cents.

Ernest Wong
email: esw5@cornell.edu