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Turbos

We were just talking about this the other day, add in some ITB's and you would have a wild looking set up.

 

thats freaking nuts!!!! I wanna see some data!!!

 

i've seen this before. more for fun than actual usage. imagine tuning that? what a nightmare!

 

I've often wondered how much more you could get out of the motor by tuning each cylinder individually. I know AEM EMS offer individual cylinder fuel trim, but that's just a fixed offset. The ideal cylinder offset may vary with rpm, load, etc. You might need separate air/fuel and timing maps for each cylinder to do any good. I guess that means 4 EMS's. Plus separate MAP, IAT, TPS, and wideband O2 sensors for each cylinder. And maybe even separate EGT thermocouples to be safe. I can see a 24 channel data logging setup. And years on the dyno. Man, it's getting pretty involved.

 

no way thats so awesome

 

um...good luck with that.

 

It looks like it wont create enough boost in the long run.. like it may have no lag.. but will go down quickly..

 

One of those turbos would be perfect for my lawn mower!!

 

yea woudlnt they all fall off after like 4000 rpms?

 

that idea is ridiculous and won't work properly thats for sure. So each turbo is going to receive 1 exhaust pulse per crank revolution eh?

pulse, wait, wait, wait, pulse, wait, wait, wait, pulse, wait, wait, wait

yeah that sounds efficient.....

on our cars it might be able to start making boost at 9000rpm, but it wont be much boost and the charge will be hot as hell because I guarantee those tiny turbos are going to be overworked trying to keep up with airflow demand. It probably chokes off the engine rather than making power, haha

there's a reason this article is over 2 years old and we're not hearing much about it

there's also a reason why turbo setups usually go from twin turbo -> single turbo, its called efficiency.

that design, while cool looking, is full of fail