Re: How do I get more power from a 12V engine

[Elliott Potter <epotter@abraxis.com>]

Let me add a little bit to this:
If you build them...
And don't charge an obscene amount for them...
*then* the Audi world will come.

There was a $2000 supercharger kit.
There's the $300 milling job for the throttle body.
There's the fabled TAP engine mods--available for every car but yours.
There's the fabled Vortrag engine mods--at last check, still working out
driveability issues.

If you can make a blower that:
a) doesn't cause weird ECU-related side-effects
b) doesn't blow up the transmission, head gaskets, or top end
c) doesn't cost more than its weight in gold
d) actually works *well*

*then* you'll have my business--and only after I've seen it work with my
own two eyes.  It's very hard to tune the 12v V6; it's got a high
compression ratio, weak head gaskets, 4 or 5 substantially different ECU
versions (that I know of...3 ECU's in the 90/Cabriolet, at least 3 in
the 100 series, one for the A4, 1 or 2 for the A6, ...)
...and very few cost-effective mods.  Though there are 4 (oh wait, now
5) Audi tuners with "pending" V6 mods...the only one that's ever made it
to production was the throttle body--so you can mail bits of your engine
halfway across the country to have a 10-minute $40 milling job done in 2
days for $300.

When you say you're "playing with" 10 turbines--have you put any of them
on an engine yet?  In a car?  Has the car been driven?  Redlined?  Or
does "playing" involve an old rag and a wrinkled picture of a
10-year-old car?

Let us know when it's done.
--
Elliott


Kevin D. Caldwell wrote:
> 
> Please refer to the previous post...you build em and the Audi world will
> come...
> 
> merlin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]
> On Behalf Of Roccet@aol.com
> Sent:   Friday, February 05, 1999 1:18 AM
> To:     nscbarry@bellsouth.net
> Cc:     'quattro@coimbra.ans.net'
> Subject:        Re: How do I get more power from a 12V engine
> 
> In a message dated 2/4/99 9:49:28 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> nscbarry@mail.msy.bellsouth.net writes:
> 
> << Design a blower, and you'll have us coming for them faster than you can
>  build 'em.
>   >>
> funny you say that because im doing just that. i have 10 turbines im playing
> with and have the ability to get 20k more yes 20 thousand. im currently in
> the
> process of getting the castings done (machining the first part for the mold
> needed) and bearings figured out . the turbines i have currently are 5
> inches
> in dia a bit bigger than i wanted but will do. i may have a line on 3 inch
> turbines ill find out for sure monday. the casing i machined first worked
> great but was
> a bit small unfortunately it was the biggest chunk of aluminum i had at the
> time.
> 
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