RE: No A2 ur-q's at MH99

["Bruce Bell" <bbell04@ibm.net>]

Yes, Ned showed me one of these when I visited him last spring. The exhaust
manifold essentially becomes a combustion chamber when you are off boost
keeping the turbo spinning and creating an exhaust that scorches anything
that gets within 50 feet.

I sent Ned pictures, perhaps he would post them on his web site.

Bruce

>     When I asked them they did, even on the IMSA/GTO car!!
> The 87 S1 has
> what looked like a stock sized wastegate (from a 5kt) mounted
> before the IC
> (which was HUUUUGE!)  as a blow off valve.  What was really
> neat was that
> instead of blowing off excess boost back into the intake
> before the turbo, it
> dumped it out through a sortof a header into the top of the
> exhaust header,
> back into the exhaust.  I belive it was a K33 turbo in there
> too, with a huge
> 3.5 or 4" downpipe.  The earlier S1 had the dual injector
> manifold also.
> Anything specific you were wondering about?, let me know...
> Javad Shadzi
> 88 80Q
>