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+--- Thread: Turbo Charging or Supercharging? (/showthread.php?tid=48)
- Knight - 30 Nov 2006
I would prefer a turbo D, superchargers do weight quite a bit but also because they're belt driven it takes away between 5-10hp just to make the supercharger work even with the increased power which isn't alot but every little counts lol
- Knight - 30 Nov 2006
I heard some cars today like Maclaren and Merc' are experimenting with fitting a supercharger and a turbo, removing the turbo-lag at standing starts with the supercharger and then romving the decreased hp with the turbo once running.
- stunned_monkey - 30 Nov 2006
That has been done before but it's expensive, and very complex - you may as well just fit a bigger engine!
- Knight - 01 Dec 2006
Very true but besides the Rolls Royce V16 you can't get much bigger than a Merc' V12, I think there should be more R&D in rotary engines I'd like to see a Rotary 6 or some thing like it that would be cool in a D
- stunned_monkey - 01 Dec 2006
Yeah right, just *slightly* too long I reckon.... The DeLorean engine bay is very short. The chevvy conversions I've seen, and the Rover V8 all involve cutting into the rear closing plate so some of the engine ends up inside the rear fascia. Ditto Marc's Nissan engine although he moved the gearbox back too.
- Guinney1971 - 01 Dec 2006
a rotary engine in a D has already been done in the USA - there was a gorgeous black painted D that had had it done.
It was sold a couple of years ago afaik.
Claire
- bozzzydmc - 01 Dec 2006
Great minds and all that.... ive just posted this in the Lotus thread :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw8d48RY ... ed&search=
- stunned_monkey - 01 Dec 2006
That's "only" a triple rotor. And actually the largest production rotary to date.
- Knight - 05 Dec 2006
Quote:Yeah right, just *slightly* too long I reckon.... The DeLorean engine bay is very short. The chevvy conversions I've seen, and the Rover V8 all involve cutting into the rear closing plate so some of the engine ends up inside the rear fascia. Ditto Marc's Nissan engine although he moved the gearbox back too.
Very true, may just squeaze a rotary 4? if one exsisted. And yeah the rotary delorean is pretty cool, I'm sure I heard from some one a while back (think it was Claire at the Knebworth BBC filming in '04) that he nearly ran some one over in it once?