Saw some cool new goodies at PRI that I wanted to share with you guys.

New turbo speed gauge!


This thing is awesome, I am getting two for my car and running one on a supercharged car just to see what it does.

New Precision billet wheels and Turbos -




Precision was showing off there new center sections and new billet wheels. Looks very promising in the future, but only time will tell...They also had the new 90 and 114...new GT4271 also.


Anyone else see any new gadgets?

 

wow those look serious!

 

Whats needed to operate the compressor speed ? WOuld be nice if it gave an output to datalog too....for supercharger speed !!!

oh...and only 3 damn pics !!!!!!!!!!! we need more !!!

 

Owens Development has been using these for a while on the WRC rally cars they build.

it uses a magnetic sensor that is machined into the cover the control unit is adjusted to the number of blades being counted, then as the blades pass the sensor, energy is pulled from the oscillator. This energy drain is then converted to a digital pulse which can be fed to a display or data logger

 

Ive seen turbos with the hole driled in the cover for one before. But never actually used a speed sensor.
We fitted a GT30 based turbo to a Subaru, that had its cover modified for a speed sensor, as the turbo guys had used it for development work.

But something that would be affordable and usable for the general public would be excellent.

 

the whole owens setup is like $230 British Pounds

 

Stevie, it will output to an external datalogger or EMS.

 

Those billet wheels are pretty pimp.

 

Flashy! I wouldn't mind having a couple of those turbos.

 

It seemed like 25% of PRI was turbo-related

 

i want that turbo speed gauge so bad

 

I have a new 114 on the shelf. We putting in on Brian Green's car. He was running a Turbonetics 98mm, bought a Precision 106, then Precision sent me the 114.

It's fuggin pimp.

 

We have quite a few on order

 

dumb question but what exactly is that turbo speed gauge for, whats the purpose other than knowing the revolutions a turbo is spinning? Well i hope you know wut i mean, i would like to know cuz ive never seen that gauge be4...

 

Mainly used to monitor overspinning. Overspinning causes the shaft and asssembly to start to move in a gyroscopic motion which kills typically the backside thrust bearing and then ends up killing the comp wheel into the cover as well. This happens mostly on efficienct setups like a small cube engine with huge PR's and very little back pressure.

 

WRONG. you cant use a magnetic, ie. hall effect sensor on something that's not ferrous. The correct answer would be an optical pickup that counts ONE blade that is generally painted white. This is much less taxing on high speed counter modules. Infact, I don't even know of one that would be able to count individual blades at 160,000 rpm.

 

He otta fly with the 114 then...It ran really well at the lat FFW race on old radials i hear. Kenjo has the 114 figured out on his car so i figure it wont take Brian long either.

I hear T-Netics also now has bigger units but havent heard how big or what kind of results they have had yet.. Anyone know?

 

as it should have been!

 

Funny, maybe you would like to tell Owens Development that since i took it directly of there site,

http://www.owendevelopments.co.uk/pr....asp?prodId=21

 

Where are you getting that pricing from ??

They list it as £350+vat ( 17.5% ) on their website.

Obviously it would be £350+shipping for export, VAT shouldnt apply.
At todays exchange rate...you are talking close to US$700+postage