Quad Turbo Kit

[normality78]

http://www.owendevelopments.co.uk/news/story.asp?NEWSID=24

21 January 2006
This is the first known quad turbocharger installation ever to be built for a four cylinder engine as a research and development project by Owen Developments.

The project was to evaluate how small the manufacture of a turbocharger would have to be in order to produce sufficient speed not only to achieve atmospheric pressure but additional boost for each of the four cylinders.

This project illustrates the design and manufacturing capabilities of Owen Developments in this highly specialised field and is a good example of where future high performance engines may ultimately end up.

 

[Izso]

holy mother of god! sweet!

 

[si|verfish]

Daammmnn!!!

Individual throttles for each cylinder bank, and now, 1 turbocharger for each cylinder bank.

 

[evo3]

WOW!!!! 99 monster.... toyota 4A 20V use quad throttle ...now got quad turbo..wah lau....

 

[tajulsans]

great info..

 

[andy_lka]

great + useful, who knows mayb someone is going to do this project by his own here? hahaha

 

[phat7]

imho the only reason why you'd go this way is fir low end torque and responsiveness. but in real world application could you even begin to imagine the headache of tuning,servicing and trouble shoot. the number of solenoids, lenghts of vacuum hoses and individual wg flapper arms to configure would be a mechanics worst nightmare.

for research purpose, i suppose the study would encompass emissions as well as power gradient accrossthe band which will be interesting.

 

[ekinomae]

so can put 4 BOVs?? Sweet.....can put SSQV, Blitz, Greddy Type R and R2D2 in one engine and see how the sound would be. The orchestra of BOVs!! hehehehe!

 

[prozac]

The design looks kinda impractical. The whole idea of more than 1 turbo is to have one turbo handle low rpms and the other turbo(s) at higher rpms. Besides...isn't 1 turbo sufficient to feed boost pressure to all 4 banks?

 

[si|verfish]

The big-small turbo setup is because you want big power but you want to deal with the lag. Something Porsche completely thrown out the window thanks to their variable geometry turbo setup in the new 911 Turbo, which is wank inducingly awesome.

Anyway, having 4 smallish turbos, each one feeding its own cylinder, has got to have some benefits. Small turbo, no lag. Each turbo sufficiently big enough to feed enough boost. I think it sounds like a great idea. Just like the idea of having individual throttles instead of one big one. Build the turbos strong and durable enough (ceramic? titanium? whatever), put in enough processing power to run Google, and you have one kick-ass turbo setup.

 

[ehaab]

WOW...that just looks..awesome...

 

[DewA_LavaU]

shuld be fast than bugatti veyron.it also use 4 turbo.oh god!!hehehe :_:

 

[si|verfish]

Did you have to ruin this discussion with a post like that?

 

[ehaab]

ahhahaa...