Old school ?!

[59ghia]

Fellow Zers

Gotta check out this ride on e-bay! I've been building engines for awile, ok, mostly VW's. So now that I've got a Z thing go'in on

I enjoy see'in how others have built their rides. So, is this old school or what! Stock mainfold, and a turbo drawin thru an SU!

Sorry no link, couldn't paste it in there Item #1834420797

[Zvoiture]

I am not a professional on such matters, but I always thought to use carbs and a turbo, you had to blow INTO the carb and 'box in' the carb to equalize pressure, etc..blah, blah, blah.... I did not think you were supposed to turbocharge the mixture. I guess it works? Any comments from the pros?

steve77

[Phacade]

WTF? That looks kinda strange. Again, I guess (???) it would work.

[Ivan]

hmm, turbo's usually make the compressed air temp 120-180 deg C and petrol explodes around 232-282 deg C.

I suppose a gap of 50 deg C is ok but I don't know what fuel-air mixture would do to a turbo though

[zorro]

Around 9yrs ago a friend of mine at the age of 17 did the very same thing. He used a 2" English SU of a Jaguar. It worked well up until around 6000rpm and them ran out of puff. Extended pipe work was run to the front spoiler on the passenger side to give a "ram air" effect.