I love me a good turbo v8!!!
but we dont really have too many in my area.....all of them are supercharged or n/a.

 

so whats the thing we are suposed to notice?


Rob

 

Cant say, you guys need to figure it out. I think I'll make a post about it.

art

 

Does it have something to do with the car? Or just something in the picture?

Hmmm....I have no clue. Give us some hints!

 

It has to do with the car, in and around the motor.

 

That BOV is huge. Looks allmost like a wastegate...

 

We have a winner!!

 

because its not a BOV. it IS a wastegate. on the charge pipe!

 

now figure out why its there!

 

My sarcasm isn't obvious enough I guess...

 

Just a guess...
Because the pressure build up is so high that it needs a wastegate to relieve the pressure. A BOV can not handle and relieve the pressure fast enough, but the wastegate can.

Am i a winner?
-deepsi

 

haha my bad. good job though figuring it out

 

Thanks.
Now where's my damn prize?

 

i see three wastegates!

 

so why are there wastegate(s) on the charge pipes?

 

This is the only thing I could figure out about the WG on the charge pipe. As you can see these turbos are large enough to make a plane fly and require alot of spool. What they do is boost the turbo on the exhaust manifold to lets say 60+psi and use the WG on the charge pipe to regulate it to around 40psi. In this case they dont have to respool the turbo during a shift and no boost is lost.

They use a boost solenoid to controll this at different speeds.

 

40 psi WOW. thats pretty cool though.


Rob

 

Are those 4-5" downpipes that I see?? Massive...they look like sewer plumbing...

Ben

 

from looking at those pics it almost makes me want to go out and build a turbo mustang

 

Awwww....I was thinking that! I was like, how come there's a WG on the chargepipe? I just thought it was some kind of "Domestic" type BOV or something?! LOL!

Hmmm, spool 60psi, but use a WG on the chargepipe to regulate it at 40....now why didn't I think of that?! They must go thru turbos every other run?

 

 

nice pics art

 

Trust me, they use the same turbo all year.

 

You're a pretty smart fella , we were actually considering doing this on the race car, but since we can't get traction it really do much good. Plus, you can run the turbo past it's effieciency threshold and the air gets too hot. Not something you have to worry about when your turbo is as big as our motors.

 

Thats right, the only draw back I could think of was the heat. But when you use a large turbo like that at high boost levels you wouldnt see as much heat vs. a smaller turbo.

art