:::RHMT::: Real Home Made Turbo
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: robus on March 29, 2009, 05:29:04 AM
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I wouldn't mind driving one of these. ;)
http://autospeed.com/A_107764/cms/article.html (http://autospeed.com/A_107764/cms/article.html)
The warm, compressed air from the turbo passes through mandrel plumbing into an ex-Mitsubishi air-to-air intercooler sitting in front of the radiator. It's here we saw a gadget that had us totally floored. The trick system uses a wastegate actuator, an arrangement of levers and some simple pneumatic components. The assembly is bolted to the front numberplate. Whenever the engine's on boost, the plate slides down about 8cm allowing air to pass freely through the intercooler core! But we were intrigued with the notion of making the plate disappear whenever the car came on boost......
Colin also took a different route when it comes to blow-off valves; he hasn't got one. Instead, there's a large diameter butterfly at the mouth of the compressor inlet that opens and closes as the engine throttle butterfly moves. Careful adjustment has enabled boost to rise instantly after gear changes.
Wanting something different, Colin installed a gas induction system that is ideally suited to the turbo application. Here in Oz, our fuel ratings are quite poor when compared to some countries, so he opted for LP gas which has a minimum octane rating of around 100RON no matter what the source.
Because the car runs on LP gas 100% of the time, all the original fuel lines, filler and tank have been discarded to shed some weight.
Spark is delivered using a re-graphed dizzy which has 10 degrees centrifugal advance and 14 degrees initial advance (plus vacuum). The otherwise standard ignition also uses a Mallory high-energy coil for a guaranteed spark.
I think it's pretty cool. I'm now reading up on Turbo+ LPG ...
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Clicked on the link and the first thing I seen was HEMI. Without looking it up how many people on this sight actually know what makes a hemi a HEMI?
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Hemispherical head chambers I gues? I don't know much about it really.
Looking forward to anyone that tried propane+turbo though
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Plug location, Chamber shape... And Hemi isn't a Chrysler thing...
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Ford had the 429 Boss, Jon Kaase is bringin it back, fucking awesome
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propane is for BBQ's, not cars >:(
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propane is for BBQ's, not cars >:(
Charcoal is for BBQ's.
Yes I am a hypocrite and have a propane BBQ.
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i got both
and did you know you can buy a lpg civic from the dealership like since last year
just no one will work on them
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i got both
and did you know you can buy a lpg civic from the dealership like since last year
just no one will work on them
Civic GX yeah and you can get filling station hock-up at your house if you already have gas to your house.
Last summer you would find most of the GXs in Utah b/c the lpg was super cheap there.
GXs where selling way over the MSRP b/c of the demand when gasoline was at above 3.00 usd/gal.
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yep, the filling station would take almost as long as a plug in electric hybrid due to the whole compression deal
still is pretty tite if you ask me
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Jags had em...