Rear mounted turbo's

[Vultch]

On my other beast (a BMW) I am always looking for ways to improve her performance but this idea seems....interesting...
see pic

http://forums.roadfly.com/forums/bmw...8942873-1.html

[surfenstein]

jesus on a bike can you imagine the amount of lag on them turbos.

[Vultch]

Yes ..the lag thing did cross my mind, bad enough on a Surf, but on a performance car.....

[KERRSURF]

Probably sound nice though.

[surfenstein]

it is a very nice piece of engineering though.i wonder how they have got oil to them????? some sort of separate pump system???? its certainly giving me ideas. even if you can roll a fag and smoke it before the boost comes in.

[KERRSURF]

Looks like oil pipes going in, the shiny ones, fed by a pump and seperate tank perhaps?

[BUSHWHACKER]

The lag should be less on a 'V' engine, due to the scaveging affect of the out-of-sequence cylinders.

[surfenstein]

The lag should be less on a 'V' engine, due to the scaveging affect of the out-of-sequence cylinders.

good point vince and they are quite small turbos looking at them so they should spool up quite quickly too.

[Apache]

Hmmmm...

OK, so picture this. You're blasting along one sunny sunday in January with your turbos glowing merrily at 800 degrees after a good hard thrash, and you go through a 6" deep icy puddle...

Kaboom! Go your castings.

[gwh200]

arn't these cars that are only taken out after extreme consultation with the met office !!