| Ford Fiesta ST: First drive in peppy new 1.6L turbo6/27/2014 4:41:48 PM |
| It's one thing taking a look at the new Ford Fiesta ST. It's another thing entirely to lob it round the Goodwood Hillclimb circuit at this year's Festival of Speed. Which is exactly what we did, and what a thrill this 1.6-litre turbo-charged beast is to behold.We had checked out the ST on the Ford stand at the show earlier in the day. It's all elegant lines and, in this case, the glowing "race re... |
| 2014 Porsche Macan Turbo6/27/2014 4:39:55 PM |
| You’ve heard none of the hue and cry that accompanied the launch of the Cayenne. No Chicken Little “Porsche’s sky if falling” doomsday prophecies lamenting the diluting of the storied brand. Nor even the questioning of marketability that accompanies every model that threatens to stretch any brand. Indeed, the anoraks that decried the arrival of Porsche’s first SUV ba... |
| Turbo News- lastest news of turbocharger industry6/27/2014 4:31:09 PM |
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| Boosting Your Knowledge of Turbocharging6/26/2014 9:55:14 PM |
| A short 15 years after Orville and Wilbur made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk, General Electric entered the annals of aviation history. In 1918, GE strapped an exhaust-driven turbocharger to a Liberty engine and carted it to the top of Pike's Peak, CO — elevation 14,000 feet. There, in the crystalline air of the majestic Rockies, they successfully boosted this 350 hp Liberty engine to a rema... |
| What is a turbocharger?6/26/2014 9:54:39 PM |
| In its simplest form a turbocharger is an exhaust driven centrifugal compressor that feeds your engine with more air than it can normally ingest allowing a greater amount of power to be produced than the same engine normally aspirated. Since all internal combustion engines rely on oxygen to burn their fuel, feeding more air, or oxygen, by the use of a turbocharger, more power can be produced. In ... |
| What is a waste gate?6/26/2014 9:53:57 PM |
| What is a waste gate?On most turbocharger systems you will find a very important part commonly referred to as a waste gate. Since the turbocharger relies on the engines exhaust to drive the turbine, at some point there will be an excess of airflow energy available, so the need to control that flow to the turbo and subsequently, the boost pressure being produced, is the job of the waste gate. The ... |
| What is a compressor bypass valve?6/26/2014 9:53:10 PM |
| What is a compressor bypass valve?Since a turbocharger’s drive energy is provided by the exhaust gases and its operational speed is dictated by engine load, a turbocharger has a very dynamic operating speed range. When you are sitting still in traffic with your car at idle speed, the turbocharger is spinning at about 1/8th of it total capability. Once you start to accelerate by opening the ... |