I don't think he's driving it this year. A turbo inherently quiets exhausts down (a little), so if you have two similar unmuffled cars, one with a turbo, one without, the turbo car will be quieter.
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I'm glad you posted this, because I don't know either and thought I was the only one.
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:cornut: (to me) It appears to be a turbo charger connected to the exhaust pipe of a MINI. I thought that this far from the exhaust manifold that the turbo would be useless and just cause excessive back pressure and none to speak of intake pressure. But then I'm not a trained performance gear head. I could also be totally wrong.
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Same question I had Nate, but if it is a T/C system you are are going to have boost limitations due to the S/C bottleneck, so to speak, so taking that into consideration with the right turbo you sould be able to compensate for the loss and possibly all that travel will actually cool the air even that much more?
Hell I don't know, I'm basiclly just spit-ballin' here. :lol:
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If doing a Twin Charge, mounting it in the rear would also get it away from the heat and tight confines of the engine compartment.....
Just spit balling here too....
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It is indeed a rear mounted turbo.
For those who are going to the dragon, It'll be there Friday and Saturday. The basic setup is a slightly larger-than-stock supercharger pulley (not smaller, like most people have), Tied to a race header and custom exhaust which spins the turbine in the rear. From the compressor side of the turbo, there is a charge pipe that sisters to the exhaust moving the compressed charged forward to the intake. By putting the turbo in the rear, we can package a much larger scroll, and separate the heat that it produces from the engine bay. The relatively long charge pipe would normally contribute to turbo lag, but that's what the supercharger is for. We're still playing with pulley sizes to reduce lag. Needless to say, the car scoots.
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