Quad turbo Camaro
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From: Dousman, WI
for 4 turbo's I'm not too overly impressed, only 25 pounds of boost, they can get that out of 1 turbo thats not even all that big, they could have saved themselves a bunch of time by just plopin a supercharger on top, 2100 respectible but I've seen much more out of regualr old doorslammers
Originally Posted by StreetKing
It was outlawed at all sanctioned races (NSCA, PRO etc) because everyone was crying about single or twin turbos and no one had ever written rules for a quad turbo. The motor/car was a huge disappointment. They were allowed to run at Orlando at the World Street Finals and only made one pass. It shook the tires real hard so they aborted the run, the second pass it dropped a valve. I dont think they ever tried it again with the quad turbos. I think they later on sold the motor to Mike Bowman in California, put twins on it and he had alot of succes with it.
Originally Posted by VerySlowTA
Very cool looking engine, especially the intake manifold. It seems like a huge waste though. Why would you use 4 turbos to make 25 lbs of boost? Just to say you did?
I'm impressed by the HP and Torque numbers, but dissapointed that they never got any full runs out of it. If you spent alll that money and time developing that thing I'm sure you'd spend the little bit of extra money to fix it to get at least one run out of it and see what all that work was worth.
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Originally Posted by Beaflag VonRathburg
While difficult to discern it seems the turbos are placed sequentially. This allows one turbo usually smaller to spool a larger turbo after the first one develops boost. This is the sort of turbo system found stock on twin turbo supras and RX7 s. It allows quicker boost response by spooling the smaller turbo for low end grunt then using the boost of the smaller turbo to spool the larger one for higher rpm power. When you're using large turbos like that camaro is it seems like it would work quite well.
I'm impressed by the HP and Torque numbers, but dissapointed that they never got any full runs out of it. If you spent alll that money and time developing that thing I'm sure you'd spend the little bit of extra money to fix it to get at least one run out of it and see what all that work was worth.
I'm impressed by the HP and Torque numbers, but dissapointed that they never got any full runs out of it. If you spent alll that money and time developing that thing I'm sure you'd spend the little bit of extra money to fix it to get at least one run out of it and see what all that work was worth.
Originally Posted by camaroextra
Are you serious? Those are parallel turbos, not sequential, if they were sequential, there would only be 1 down pipe on each side. each turbo is running off of 2 cylinders
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From: Wilkes Barre, Pa
Originally Posted by 7sechemi
for 4 turbo's I'm not too overly impressed, only 25 pounds of boost, they can get that out of 1 turbo thats not even all that big, they could have saved themselves a bunch of time by just plopin a supercharger on top, 2100 respectible but I've seen much more out of regualr old doorslammers
In any case.. Thats a whole lot of piping..
I love it.. 
