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Re: Turbo and motor photos

To: Glen Byrns <grbyrns@ucdavis.edu>, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Turbo and motor photos
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 16:01:48 -0500
Organization: Avaya Communication
References: <000501c08b9e$4e900990$7364640a@internal.vgl.ucdavis.edu> <3A784895.14AF9852@avaya.com>
"William M. Gilroy" wrote:
> 
> I have a question, most turbos I have seen compress the air and send
> it into a box on the air cleaner side of the carb.  Your setup looks
> like the turbos output goes directly into the intake manifold.  How
> does this work?  I would expect that the compressed gases would be
> forced into the cylinder, which is what you want, and pushed out
> the carb, which is not what you want.   What am I missing?
> 
> One other thing, what kind of turbo and what was the source?
> 
> Gilroy

Never mind.  I took a second look at ALL the pictures and I see that
the carb is mounted directly on the intake of the turbo. I had thought
that both the carb and the turbo were mounted on the intake manifold.
I see now why this works.  Headset problem.

Gilroy

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