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Re: Blower Ratio

To: Dave Dahlgren <ddahlgren@snet.net>
Subject: Re: Blower Ratio
From: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:01:11 -0700
Thanks for the "Real Story" Dave.

Some of the Turbo concepts and theory's I read about 30 years ago are now
in Turbos, including production automotive turbos.
Modern materials doing the  impossible.

Bryan

Dave Dahlgren wrote:
> Those cars did not have anti-lag. Almost all of that vintage just had sloppy
> fuel control as they were too linear in the RPM curves.. trust me on that I
> have worked on a bunch of them. When you put modern electronics o them give
> them a proper tune-up they are faster with no flame at all. Funny a lot of
> the vintage guys insist I reinstall the flames, so the car looks
> historically correct. The extra fuel on it's own will not do the anti-lag
> stuff and the modern turbos for road race really don't need it.
> Dave




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