Buddy built a centrifugal supercharger from a turbo
05-04-2010, 05:43 AM
#1
Buddy built a centrifugal supercharger from a turbo My buddy just finished his Senior Engineering Project. He used a turbocharger off of some big diesel engine (tractor) I believe and turned it into a supercharger. He has spent all school year on the project so far, including many many after school hours and weekends. He cast his own housing out of aluminum and built / machined everything for it. Unfortunately the dyno was an old *** analog torque dyno that was faulty. The load cells or something need restored so he never did get an accurate reading of HP.
Please post comments on his youtube video as I know he would appreciate it as he is not a member on here.
Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7E9B67DD70
Please post comments on his youtube video as I know he would appreciate it as he is not a member on here.
Enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7E9B67DD70
05-04-2010, 06:23 AM
#3
Can you relay this to your friend that built this for me as I could not post it on youtube link, or paste this into a comment on youtube? Thanks for sharing this with us very nice project.
This is for your friend:
I saw this on LS1tech.com and you are truly going to do great things in your life! Awesome project and I take the foundry work to heart as my Great grand father and Grand father were both master pattern makers in a foundry. Then my father and I have been porting aluminum heads and intakes for over 16 years for me and over 25 years for pops. You can see I appreciate this kind of work and you are doing what most only dream of. Give your buddies that helped you and your self a huge pat on the back!
Josh
This is for your friend:
I saw this on LS1tech.com and you are truly going to do great things in your life! Awesome project and I take the foundry work to heart as my Great grand father and Grand father were both master pattern makers in a foundry. Then my father and I have been porting aluminum heads and intakes for over 16 years for me and over 25 years for pops. You can see I appreciate this kind of work and you are doing what most only dream of. Give your buddies that helped you and your self a huge pat on the back!
Josh
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05-04-2010, 03:59 PM
#9
Thanks for the comments guys I will relay the messages. He said he has around 300 hours into it. He isn't going to put it on anything, just that 350 on the schools engine dyno. He's always been into building cool things, he had a 1960's chevy pickup he put a 350 in and installed a turbo kit on it with his own pressurized methanol injection. He also took a snowmobile engine in high school and threw it in a little buggy chassis he built. You guys should see the 1960's Falcon GT drag car he's been building, pretty badass. He's built the full cage, fabricated the back half, and cut the whole firewall and front end off to build a tubular front end. He's helped do a ton of work on my car too!
05-04-2010, 08:18 PM
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Man that would be the funnest senior design project ever. I'm going into my fourth year of Mechanical Engineering at the Milwaukee school of Engineering and We have to fund our own senior design projects if we decide to do our own. I haven't decided what I am going to do yet but that would be effin awesome. I will probably do the project Formula SAE car. Great post
05-05-2010, 11:21 AM
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Man that would be the funnest senior design project ever. I'm going into my fourth year of Mechanical Engineering at the Milwaukee school of Engineering and We have to fund our own senior design projects if we decide to do our own. I haven't decided what I am going to do yet but that would be effin awesome. I will probably do the project Formula SAE car. Great post
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