So I designed a zero lag turbo charger

[lukeADE335i]

LOL... the time is right for it :D

Where's Trina?

[george graves]

Yearly bump. 2018 and no zero lag turbo.

[TobyB]

oh good god. this again?

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[LJ851]

Read through a few pages, got bored when I got to the engine driven alternator idea.

The supposed engine driven alternator idea was no doubt just to swap the belt drive on the front of the alternator to a gear drive on the back of the alternator, and fit the alternator into a casting on the block.

No manufacturer has done this because of heat & NVH. Gear drives for camshafts have been around for ever, and this would be a similar idea. If you've ever heard a race engine that has had the timing chain or belt swapped to a gear drive, they whine like crazy (think 100x worse than blower whine). Some experimented with nylon gears to try to reduce the whine, but this just made the gears less reliable than a timing chain so there was no point.

All International Harvester truck engines at least from the 50's through the 80's (including my Scout) had gear driven camshafts and they are silent and extremely durable.

[flyboyx]

thats from straight cut gears. there is technology out there to make them quiet. helical cut gears just like the ones in your differential. i think the reason it isn't done that way is because of unnecessary expense.

[lukeADE335i]

Read through a few pages, got bored when I got to the engine driven alternator idea.

The supposed engine driven alternator idea was no doubt just to swap the belt drive on the front of the alternator to a gear drive on the back of the alternator, and fit the alternator into a casting on the block.

No manufacturer has done this because of heat & NVH. Gear drives for camshafts have been around for ever, and this would be a similar idea. If you've ever heard a race engine that has had the timing chain or belt swapped to a gear drive, they whine like crazy (think 100x worse than blower whine). Some experimented with nylon gears to try to reduce the whine, but this just made the gears less reliable than a timing chain so there was no point.

[parkerbink]

Why couldn't I go on not seeing this train wreck?

Forgot I wished I had not seen this in 2012. I wish I had not seen it again!

lol

[flyboyx]

23 pages of gold. god bless r3v

[phreshkid]

Someone pls design a turbo kit for my 911. Zero lag is preferred. Obvi.

[2mAn]

New email stknrvrs@gmail.com

[MR E30 325is]

Lawl, saw the thread title and was immediately launched back to the past.

[akorcovelos]

I heard he changed gears and is designing a turbo setup for Tesla.

[george graves]

Damn, it's been another 2 years. We're all getting old waiting for this new tech.

[ahrensNW]

Plot twist: OP was a time traveler, but also such a gear head that he had his priorities all out of whack.

If he was a time traveler there would have been a turbo e30 with a revolutionary no lag system lol

[Exodus_2pt0]

Plot twist: OP was a time traveler, but also such a gear head that he had his priorities all out of whack.