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dominicturbo

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On 2 stroke engine the turbo lag is`t take so long and important that the 4t engine. In a drag appliquation the time for boost appliquation be too long for use it ?
 

Ok, first of all, I am no turbo expert. Ive swapped a couple of them out on a dump truck, never tuned or designed a system or had to do more than bolt one on. I do hope to one day have a turbo Vmax 4 of my own design and so I spent a little time reading up on how things work. A turbo can be used sucessfully in drags as proven by quadzillaracer. A setup like that I imagine would easily be $10,000+. The majority of guys that use them for drags are using the aerocharger. http://www.aerocharger.com/53series.php These are still thousands of dollars and that is just the turbo unit. They are not a bolt on kit and require a lot of fab, tuning and testing. Aerochargers are a much more efficient form of turbo as they rob a little less hp from the engine at low rpm's and greatly reduce lag time (which is vital in drags). I have heard of evo takeoffs being used too but it seems to me that was mostly high speed run stuff. Nothing where low end is important. This page has some valuable info, once you get past the first 2 pages of guys claiming a 2 stroke cant be turbocharged. http://forums.hybridz.org/topic/49594-how-to-turbocharged-2-stroke/page-4
Hope this helped, I dont know your knowledge level on turbos so I hope I didnt just tell you a bunch of stuff you already knew. There are a lot of ways to do this and no 1 right answer. If I ever get to build one you guys will be the first to know. Good luck if you decide to give it a go. It is not easily done RIGHT but the Vmax4 takes very well to a turbo.

Chris
 
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