Recent content by Calorus

Personally, I'm totaly narrow minded - I respect Toyota, from the perspective of being one of the last manufacturers in the general domain to give up on the Rear Drive format for real cars. I'd go with Honda or Ferrari if it were on the basis of pure romanticism, though. The thing about Toyota...

When I read this a part of me thinks - that's so narrow minded; there's such a big world out there. Problem is the rest of me thinks "F*ck, Yeah!"

As I see it, the only reason to choke the un-turbined bank would be to match the thermal loadings across the the engine, however, one of the main reasons for only connecting one bank to the turbine would likely be space and weight. Spool rate is only of importance in transient applications...

Would you actually needto to treat them as an engine, though? As long as there were no major heat differentials within any given bank, surely, only the cylinder would need to be balanced individually?

Kind of makes sense, I guess - although this would be difficult to replicat in a road application, because thetwo banks would need to betreated to all intents and purposes as to seperate 4 -pots on the same crank. Right down to the choice of internals. Not a rare issue, though it's quite like...

The suck through system is dead. There is NEVER a good reason to put fuel/air mix through a Compressor. And in the event that you have no choice you should note that this negates the use of an intercooler (air to air, or N20 to Air), as you're likely to fill it with condensed fuel vapour which...

After reading up about the engine on the Saker site, I fear it may be too single minded for a turbo conversion, I'd expect you to gain 50 BHP in relaible road trim at the most, but you 'll lose more than that in useable torque. As a result of three factors a) The beautiful Manifolds you're...