<VV> Turbo Question

[Bill Elliott]

Basically, it was complicated AND very limited in boost. Since it was bolted onto a high compression engine, it needed water ijection to keep detonation at 
bay. And then it needed another circuit to even more severely limit boost if there was no fluid for the injection. In all, it did not add significant performasnce 
(only made like 215hp while the 4bbl version was already near 200hp...not bad for 215ci's) and added driveability and reliability issues. Not to mention 
having to add water (or alcohol inte the winter)

The reason for the Corvair unit's success was it's simplicity, with boost limted by the muffler and carb.... but at least the Corvair engine was dropped into 
compression to make the engine able to live under more significant boost... and was able to realize a 40% power increase.

Bill

On Thu, 19 May 2005 14:30:07 EDT, RoboMan91324 at aol.com wrote:

>Hi Joel,

>Just out of curiosity, what was wrong with the Olds turbo system?

>Doc
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>In a message dated 5/19/2005 11:14:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>virtualvairs-request at corvair.org writes:

>> Message: 5
>> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:58:45 -0700
>> From: Western Canada CORSA <westerncanadacorsa at shaw.ca>
>> Subject: RE: <VV> Turbo Question
>> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
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>> It was the first SUCCESSFUL production turbo.  The Olds Jetfire came off the 
>> line about a month earlier, but was a dismal failure, with GM eventually 
>> offering the replace the troublesome turbo with a V8.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Joel
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