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that is known as a sequential setup, when what we have is known as a parallel setup. On an inline 6 like the Supra, air is coming in one place to feed all the cylinders. On ours, air comes in from two places, and, though we have balance tubes and such to even things out, my understanding is that our engines basically run as two fairly separate 3-cylinder engines. One turbo feeds one bank of three; the other feeds the other side. When you look at it this way, it's probably easier to understand why we need two of the same turbos. In order to really pull this off on our engines, it seems to me you'd need either four turbos total - one big and one small on each side - which would be impossible to fit and still have the car look good, or you'd need to route the inflow of air together before it hits a sequential turbo setup, and that just doesn't seem feasible in our engine bays.
You don't have to live in a bubble just because someone else caught the flu. Make your decision on your ability to trust yourself. - NytWolf 15:49:05 12/17/06
I was previously a aviation mechanic and avionic technician and this car is harder to work on than Aircraft. - Hocuz77 03:04:56 02/28/06 |
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