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When the hot air leaves the engine, it winds a turbine that in turn drives an air pump or compressor located at the engine’s front side. It pushes the air into the engine and allows a proper burn of the fuel. I suppose it’s a generation thing to some extent but when I think of classic car induction systems my mind wanders off to SU or Weber carburettors. Turbos still seem relatively modern since virtually every current car has one, but of course they’re not. Plenty of modern classics from the 1980s and a tiny minority from before that have them – take the Saab 99 Turbo that featured in this year’s Bull Market List, for example – but the good news is that sorting out a problem is usually more mechanical than electronic.

How does a turbo work in a car engine? It applies almost the same principle of a jet engine. It has two main parts – a turbine and a compressor. When one part spins, the other spins with it too because they are linked to each other. Exhaust gasses blast out of the engine when the fuel burns inside the combustion chamber. The gasses go down into a tube and wind the turbine, which rotates at significantly high speeds and causes the compressor (which is actually a turbine in reverse) to spin. This chain of action siphons more air into the engine cylinder, allowing burning more fuel and producing more power each second.A generic description of what happens is this. As engine load increases and the engine produces more power, the exhaust pressure increases at the same time. Since it passes through the hot side of the turbocharger, the turbine is driven faster, driving the compressor wheel on the cold side at the same revs, and that pressurises the intake system. The air gets hot when it’s compressed which isn’t good for combustion so it usually passes through an intercooler on the way to the engine’s inlet ports via a throttle body, or individual throttle bodies. Intercoolers are simply air-to-air heat exchangers, like a radiator but without the water. If it seems a bit complicated to understand how a turbo works, take the cue from the fact that an engine run by a mixture of fuel and air. When a turbocharger brings more air into the chamber, it gets mixed with more fuel, yielding more power as a result. It smuggles air by compressing it using the energy of the exhaust gasses coming out of the engine. A turbo engine. Source: Fast Car Different Types of Turbocharger? There’s one particular reason for this and that’s balance. The Garrett T3 fitted to cars like my Ford Sierra Cosworth will reach 110,000rpm and the only thing between its compressor and the engine is the intercooler. Catastrophic turbo failures resulting in fragments being swallowed by the engine don’t bear thinking about and a specialist will balance the assembly and rebuild the turbo to factory specifications. In the UK, Owen Developments is a well known purveyor of all things turbo and there’s also Bernie Wilky of Bernie’s Blowers fame who can be found on Facebook. Due to the burning of more fuel, the energy output will be bigger faster, and the engine will be able to send more power to the wheels.

Hopefully this article will be useful for you. If you have any car question, feel free to leave us a comment in the box below, we will answer it for you.Alfred J. Büchi (1879-1959) is the father of this incredible car part. He is an automotive engineer employed by the Gebrüder Sulzer Engine Company of Winterthur, Switzerland. Alfred created the turbocharger before World War I and published it in Germany in 1905. His contribution to the turbocharger is so great he kept improving designs for it until his death. What is the disadvantage of turbo engines? The turbocharger is a familiar term when you talk about race cars and high-performance sports vehicles. They are also not uncommon to find in larger diesel engines. A turbo is a device that can enhance the horsepower of an engine without adding to its weight. How does a turbo work and make that possible? And, what features have made them so popular? What Is a Turbocharger?

People from the 1980s are likely to be better acquainted with the word ‘turbo’ because it was applied to plenty of products at that time such as turbo skateboards, turbo razors, and many other things. But, this is not what has revolutionized the auto industry. If you are looking for the resolution to delete turbo lag, electric turbocharger is your main weapon. Assisting turbochargers where conventional turbo is not the best, electric turbocharger works by adding electric motors spinning the compressor of the turbo until the power from exhaust volume is high enough to start the turbocharger. And this is the most perfect turbochargers since it has the solutions for every problem of conventional turbochargers. How Does a Turbo Work? Just like the name, a second turbocharger is installed to the engine. By doing this, the second turbo allows higher power and wider RPM range. To be more specific, the smaller turbo works at low RPMs, while the large one for higher RPMs. As a result, twin-turbo is high in the complexity, and cost. Variable Geometry Turbocharger We’ll have a look at the detail of the sort of boost control systems you can expect to find in the next instalment but before that, what about the turbo itself? Basic turbochargers are fairly straightforward in that they comprise castings, nuts, bolts and studs to hold everything together, a spindle running in bearings through the turbo casings, with the turbine on the hot end and compressor wheel on the other. There could be nothing more to it than that or there may be a wastegate mechanism incorporated into the casing. Simple, yes, and the temptation to have it apart on the bench and fit some new bits is great, but this is one that’s best left to the experts with the right equipment. The Garrett T3 from a Sierra Cosworth. The hot air cools down when passing through the heat exchanger and enters the cylinder’s air intake.Another benefit of using turbochargers is that they enable the engine to yield more torque at the lower rev range, which gives a car an edge while driving around the city. The additional torque comes handy for easily pinching the gaps. Almost all the modern cars with diesel-run engines have turbochargers because diesel engines are tougher than petrol units and have simpler intakes. How Does a Turbocharger Work? (At a Glance) The exhaust gasses leave the car through the exhaust pipe. They waste less energy than an engine not having a turbocharger. The diesel-run cars mainly have a turbocharged engine. In addition, most automakers have one or two turbocharged models in their line of products. To name a few, Renault-Nissan has labeled their turbo-diesel as dCi and turbo-petrol as TCi, which are TDI and TSI for Volkswagen and TDCI and Ecoboost for Ford, respectively.