A friend of mine and I flew thru there once. I was like "We're going in full throttle." And he was like "At that speed will you be able to pull out in time?" And then I was like "It'll be just like Beggar's Canyon back home." We made it.
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Honda is very risk-averse with performance models. They didn't even bother with a next-gen S2000, an unarguable success.
The big one is the number of clicks it takes to read any conversation.
This new Kinja fucking blows.
Those 345's are cute, meet the 355's (stock) on my Viper. AMERICA!
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.
Yes a turbo uses exhaust gasses to compress air, but exhaust gasses are not compressed air...
Depends, Are you driving a Dodge???
Yes but the point being, pertaining to the original question, if you were to compare the hypothetical losses of rotational mass and direction change from a camshaft (of any style) to the losses of a compressors rotational mass, the compressor (hypothetically) would be more.
Yes and no. It comes around to reliability and maintenance. If the air compressor is much less reliable than a timing belt or chain, is it really an improvement?
Understood fully, and I am in no way saying that the losses from a compressor outweigh the gains from this system. I am thinking more in terms of other losses (look at loss of space from batteries in electric cars). What if the compressor is designed to run on electricity rather than engine rotation (if your pump is…
Explain how exhaust could be used as a source for compressed air?
That is truly dependent on air requirements. And no, a compressor of virtually any size will have more rotational mass than a camshaft.
But how often does a camshaft fail? by replacing a single mechanical piece with a system of compressor(s), tanks, and hoses you add more possible points of failure. That is the point I was attempting to make.
As with every new technology created to replace something of simple mechanics, all I have to say is K.I.S.S. (keep it simple stupid).
What else is amazing is that it can run in a number of modes. They can run it as a two stroke at lower revs, which effectively improves power delivery to make 3,000 RPM feel like 6,000. It can run the Miller Cycle, which sounds complicated but improves both power and efficiency. Mazda did it in the Millennia S. It can…
a good part but the best part is an American PUSH ROD V8 beating some german over-engineered W16.
If it don't say Guiness World Record, it don't matter
Well, there's always Bonneville..