Ford has 3 (Fusion, Focus, Escape), Honda has 2, Toyota has 2, Chevy tried (I think they gave up), Chrysler is still trying to understand how overhead cams work, and I think the big three German brands may have a few in the mix, somewhere.

Teslas platform was built to accommodate the larger batteries. vehicles converted to accept electric platforms loose space.

Its possible, but you would need (again more complications) an electronically controlled direction valve that could prevent the turbo from feeding all the air into the engine if more air is needed in the tank (as the tank would have to take priority). Add in the fact that some current turbo engines are running as low…

That's all dependent on how long it needs to run before the tank has enough psi to safely start the motor. A starter may need to run for 1-10 seconds, where as a compressor, depending on tank size and psi, may need to run for as long a few minutes (although one would reasonably expect no longer than a minute).

Fail more often than an unknown compressor in an untested environment?

I am not saying its a bad idea. in fact I love the idea. I also love playing devils advocate and looking at all aspects.

The air would still have to be stored in a reserve tank to provide a continuous flow and rate. Also, in using a turbo for this, you would loose the ability to use a turbo as FI for the engine (which is huge as many engines are now running a turbo for higher gains on lower displacement engines).

I grew up in a Ford family and I do love my Fords. But My Wrangler has been great and as I dont need a truck for much other than playing in the desert, if Jeep made a Wrangler based truck I might literally die of excitement.

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As with anything, its all about what you're familiar with. If you understand a carb, its easy, especially if you have issues with FI and start getting into impedance, and duty cycle, or worse, diagnosing why your injector wont fire only to find out its a signal issue with your throttle body, or that your cam angle…

But a fuel injector alone will not work without the software, other electronics. The carb will work as long as the jets are clean and the engine kicks over.

Again, the point is, replacing a relatively simple system with more components / points of failure only complicates things. I realize there are ways to do it, just needs to be will thought out and tested.

That depends if I installed it and didnt realize a nut slipped down into the gearing or not...

YES!!!

But once you start getting into the power band, adding high boost to the high compression, diesels get VERY hot very fast.

Depends on the valve set up. A V8 with 4 valves per cylinder has 32 valves. at 4000 rpm, each valve will open and close at minimum, 500 times per minute. that means supplying a precise amount of air for a specific amount of time. This could make compressor requirements rather specific.

But it is not a constant. You can under provide at low rpms, causing engine problems with a setup like this, and over provide at high rpms, resulting in massive losses in efficiency.

Using the engines natural vacuum to draw fuel through and into the engine is more complicated than a series of electronics using inputs from multiple sensors through a complex algorithm to send out varying electrical wave lengths to a device with an electronic controlled valve to tell it when and how long to open said…

Nope, Never owned or driven a turbo car. Except the 3kGT VR4 I built, and my 9-3 turbo, oh and my Diesel, then there's the DSM...

Annoyance with modern electronics. HIGH. lol. But I also own a DSM so there's that. and a properly built engine with modern techniques running a carb, while not fuel efficient, can be quite powerful.