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Subject Turbos are rated in hp because:
     
Posted by therinL on January 30, 2003 at 2:01 AM
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In Reply To one quick question. posted by Z. on January 30, 2003 at 12:42 AM
     
Message The turbos themselves have the ability to produce some amount of airflow at some pressure. The amount of power you can get out of some set of turbos will be differnt for each car. So to make it easy on everyone, they rate turbos for specific cars at some hp level so we know about what kind of power what turbos can make....

Example:
TD05H-16Gs for 300ZX: Max power in the 600HP area...
TD05H-16G for DSM: Max power in about the 350HP range...

If you want to know intrinsics about a turbo, look for cfm ratings at some psi:
Turbo and Rated cfm @ 15psi:
9b - 275
14b - 430
"small" 16G - 520
20G - 650

Later
Josh

     
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