No turbo charger per se.
They used to do this in the older days for instant power gains to carbed engines. i wont go into detail on how to do this just yet. if i even do decide to talk about it much.
So you're saying adding this boost gauge will give an engine more power? Sort of like adding a speedometer adds more speed. Cool.
I think (well.. I fear...) I know what he talks about...
if so, that's one brainfart of an idea I've not seen for quite some time...
next up: hho injection
Allow me to explain (what I think he thinks he'll try)
commonly referred to as compressed air boost.
basically a scuba tank that is set up to pressurize the intake;
A ball valve for the scuba tank, a butterfly valve to shut down the air intake (when needed)
And, if set up for refilling, a small compressor picking up crankrotation to refill the scuba tank..
a viable (still dumb imho) solution for turbo/supercharged engines to have an additional boost-source to fill in low-rpm potholes.
An utterly stupid idea for non charged engines for more than one reason.
here's a few of them:
you will have to reduce compression in order to maintain reliability of the engine during boost-phase.
you shouldn't reduce compression in order to maintain a decent amount of power during normal aspiration phase.
obviously you cannot have both.
during normal aspiration the engine will power the compressor (at least for a while) to compress air into the tank
that'll draw lots of power you'd rather have at your axle.
but say you're filling the tank at red lights only (*cough*)
Since you cannot add a blow off valve (that'll simply drain the tank to the great outdoors)
you'll have to rely on the tank valve, which will have to be reset according to the remaining tank pressure in order to keep the boost level at least somewhat linear.
tricky to achieve electronically, nearly impossible to achieve manually...
And after all, you run you kart with an airbomb sitting right next to your head, blowing into an engine -that will NOT be set up correctly to withstand the sudden increase in air pressure without eventually blowing the head gasket, or worse bending the conrod-
sitting right at your spine... which one's penetrating your squishy body parts first remains to be seen.
So, someone's nominated for the upcoming Darwin Awards.
'sid
PS He might think of something else... but frankly I doubt it.
that you aren't capable of finding.....
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