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• Re: Engine Parts
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:11:22 -0800
  ...big bucks for a forged counterweighted crank...oh, and fabricate a turbocharger/intercooler combo. The latter is probably the most cost effective means of...
• Re: Exhaust Bushing Inner Weave Premature Failure
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:57:21 -0500
  ...Isn't the temperature of the exhaust coming out of the turbocharger lower > than the temperature of the exhaust coming in? After all, that...
• Re: Turbos
  Historical mailing list
  Sun, 14 Apr 1996 21:49:44 -0400
  ...The conversion is as follows: *Cosworth 7.2:1 low compression pistons *Garrett PB-03 turbocharger (specially built for this application and requires no...
• Re: "green" cars (NVC)
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Mon, 16 Feb 2004 22:52:40 -0600
  ...Since the exhaust stream lost less heat, the turbocharger operated more efficiently. There was also some benefit in more complete combustion, which reduced HC...
• On Conversion Engine Reliability
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Sun, 21 Apr 2002 20:11:57 EDT
  ...In late 1988 I started accumulating turbocharger, manifolds, adapters, etc. In July of 1989, I was ready to begin the turbocharger upgrade. Then In...
• Re: Running on Tap Water
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:33:31 -0700
  ...A turbocharger essentially compresses the air going into the engine in order to force more air than would be possible with the atmospheric pressure...
• Re: Increasing horsepower
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:39:26 +0100
  ...Scale down an engine or turbocharger till it is much smaller, and you will find that it effectively produces less and less effective power...
• Re: Unreal oil consumption on diesel Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Tue, 2 Sep 1997 02:39:27 UT
  ...I changed the turbocharger, thinking the impeller was drawing oil from the oil lubricated bearings and driving it into the motor. Oil consumption was...
• Re: AAZ overboost
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:07:20 -0500
  ...Jul 13, 2011, at 12:13 AM, Tom Hargrave wrote: > All turbochargers can over boost but boost is regulated by the waste > gate. > The...
• Re: Superchargers?
  Historical mailing list - pat
  Thu, 7 Jul 2011 08:41:45 -0400
  ...Superchargers? > > Anyone have any experience with superchargers on a VW? Turbochargers get > all the ink..everyone talks about Turbo Subies and Bostig transplants. > > In...
• Re: Friday subject - are we on the list just old farts?
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Sat, 15 Feb 2020 17:01:57 +0000
  ...Then added low pressure turbocharger with SAAB knock control to the Audi 80 engine. Then switched back to diesel with a 1.8L 1Z...
• Re: Running on Tap Water - attempt at de-confuscation
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Thu, 18 Jul 2002 16:55:04 +0100
  ...However by compressing the inlet air the turbocharger also heats it. Higher air temperatures lead to thinner >air and therefore an altered stoechiometric ratio...
• Re: Good Sam Club Road Assist
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Martin
  Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:04:16 -0700
  ...soaked, narrow and dangerously busy section of highway and lastly, the turbocharger in my truck quit between my house and workshop. In all cases...
• Re: to the td conversion people
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:10:22 EDT
  ...in the past in posts to the vanagon list on my turbocharger addition to the Audi 3A engine. I put together an intermediate sump...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 2 Mar 1996 17:44:12 -0600 (CST)
  ...Instead, it was a double, heavy chain drive with a 2800 cc Type I engine with a turbocharger. He said that he'd just...
• Re: VW Canada motors
  Historical mailing list - dneu
  Fri, 14 Jun 2002 08:22:35 -0700
  ...My thoughts when I bought my 85 westy was to design and market a turbocharger for the WBX. I also started on a web...
• Re: Unreal oil consumption on diesel Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - David Chasteen
  Tue, 2 Sep 1997 21:14:04 -0700
  ...I > changed the turbocharger, thinking the impeller was drawing > oil from the oil lubricated bearings and driving it into the motor. > Oil consumption was...
• Re: AAZ overboost
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:25:11 -0700
  ...Jul 13, 2011, at 12:13 AM, Tom Hargrave wrote: > >> All turbochargers can over boost but boost is regulated by the waste >> gate. >> The...
• Re: Why I love Mercedes Benz but would never own one of their cars
  Historical mailing list - Kent Christensen
  Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:00:41 -0600
  ...per power stroke (and cost at least $1K each) and a turbocharger with electrically controlled variable pitch blades. This in a vehicle that will...
• Re: On Conversion Engine Reliability
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Sun, 21 Apr 2002 19:18:38 -0700
  ...In late 1988 I started accumulating turbocharger, manifolds, adapters, etc. In July of 1989, I was ready to begin the turbocharger upgrade. Then In...
• Re: VW Canada motors
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:42:19 -0500
  ...I bought my 85 westy was to design and market a > turbocharger for the WBX. I also started on a web based parts > business...
• Comment on 2.1 WBx vs. 2.2 Sub vs. Tiico (was The problem with TIICO)
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Thu, 28 Mar 2002 12:07:59 EST
  ...The only successful version of this combination requires the use of a turbocharger. The TDi would be ideal, and a carefully detuned 1.8T...
• Re: AAZ overboost
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:02:16 -0700
  ...Jul 13, 2011, at 12:13 AM, Tom Hargrave wrote: >> >>> All turbochargers can over boost but boost is regulated by the waste >>> gate. >>> The...
• Sleeve valve engines - off subject
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:16:13 +0100
  ...It was 90 degree V-12, single sleeve valve engine, the turbocharger receiving 36,000 exhaust pulses per minute! Note that by their nature...
• Re: Purchase price is just the down payment
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 21 Oct 2012 06:48:27 -0400
  ...1) Should be upstream of the turbocharger, since that will introduce load-dependent temperature drops as the turbo extracts energy from the gas stream...
• Re: Sleeve valve engines - off subject
  Historical mailing list - Helen Fahy
  Fri, 19 Jul 2002 07:45:27 -0400
  ...It was 90 degree > V-12, single sleeve valve engine, the turbocharger receiving 36,000 exhaust > pulses per minute! Note that by their nature...
• A Comment on TDi Engine rpm vs. Longevity and Economy
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:24:45 EST
  ...For the 1Z/AHU with traditional wastegated turbocharger, the numbers are: 203@2100, 220@3000, 222@3500, 235@4000 and 250@4500. For the...
• Diesel 4 speed vs. 5 speed (was RE: "windage tray" and other I4 conversion comments) LONG!!!
  Historical mailing list - Michael Snow
  Mon, 8 Jan 2001 21:27:35 -0800
  ...a threaded hole on the side of the pan for the turbocharger oil return line on TD vans. The air intake system uses a...
• Expert Comment on the Turbo Oil Drain Delimma
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:24:22 EDT
  ...As those of you with a modicum of interest will recall, I'm grappling with the issue of how to connect the turbocharger return...
• Re: A Comment on TDi Engine rpm vs. Longevity and Economy
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:39:31 -0500
  ...For the 1Z/AHU with traditional wastegated turbocharger, the numbers are: 203@2100, 220@3000, 222@3500, 235@4000 and 250@4500. For the...
• On the Subject of Turbo's, Oil Pans and Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:49:08 EDT
  I have been following the discussion about the location of the turbocharger oil return line in vanagon installations for some time but have been...
• Re: Bostig Turbo update-long, sorry this is exciting for me
  Historical mailing list - David Clarkson
  Wed, 5 Jan 2011 21:10:37 EST
  ...I wonder about the evolution of the turbocharger. In the old days you would have been happy to have gotten 30-40,000 miles...
• Turbo question Water Jacket Seal failure
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Tue, 3 Sep 2002 08:31:20 -0700
  ...The other item was I saw an image from a listmember in Japan's website of a turbocharger on a Vanagon engine at one...
• Re: vanagon Digest - 24 Feb 2008 - Special issue (#2008-238)
  Historical mailing list - sam mccarthy
  Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:24:11 -0800
  ...For the 1Z/AHU with traditional wastegated turbocharger, the numbers are: 203@2100, 220@3000, 222@3500, 235@4000 and 250@4500. For the...
• Re: Fuel ponderings
  Historical mailing list - Marc Sayer
  Tue, 1 Nov 2005 11:39:55 -0800
  ...A Turbocharger does reclaim some of the waste heat and sound energy in the exhaust, but not a whole lot. In a highly efficient...
• Re: VW inline four-bangers
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:24:34 -0500
  ...carbs, downdraft carbs, pressure carbs, pressure injection carbs, internal superchargers, external turbochargers, fuel injection systems. But I have never really worked much on automotive...
• Re: Sleeve valve engines - off subject
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:22:31 +0100
  ...It was 90 > degree > > V-12, single sleeve valve engine, the turbocharger receiving 36,000 > exhaust > > pulses per minute! Note that by their nature...
• Re: Why I love Mercedes Benz but would never own one of their cars
  Historical mailing list - Zeitgeist
  Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:02:19 -0700
  ...per power stroke (and cost at least $1K each) and a turbocharger with > electrically controlled variable pitch blades. This in a vehicle that will...
• Re: Superchargers?
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 7 Jul 2011 11:51:48 -0700
  ...Superchargers? >> >> Anyone have any experience with superchargers on a VW? Turbochargers >> get >> all the ink..everyone talks about Turbo Subies and Bostig transplants. >> >> In...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon - Ford Focus Engine alternative
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:04:21 -0500
  ...We've bolted on a turbocharger, but the engine is stock, and quite capable of the power levels we're targetting. How long will...
• A new Adventure on the way to the Audi 2.0 Turbo - or pulling gears
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Sat, 7 Jul 2001 00:32:31 EDT
  ...This means LH-Jetronic ECU and fuel injection and the Saab APC knock-based control of turbocharger boost pressure and Saab ignition. As part...
• Re: I4 Happenings in turbovans land
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:23:34 -0400
  ...of the 3A exhaust manifold as it aligned nicely with the turbocharger inlet. Vibration disappeared with the use of the SAAB hydraulic motor mounts...
• 16" Translation
  Historical mailing list - Tom Forhan
  26 Apr 1995 16:53:16 EST
  ...VW did, according to its own information, give the Golf power plant a turbocharger before putting it in the bus. This is supposed to...
• Diesel and Gasoline facts (long)
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn
  Tue, 26 May 1998 10:43:33 -0700
  ...Because the combustion process is "softer" a Diesel can stand much more pressure and therefore compression is often enhanced by a turbocharger which uses...
• Re: Why I love Mercedes Benz but would never own one of their cars
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sat, 15 Jun 2013 03:10:29 -0500
  ...per power stroke (and cost at least $1K each) and a > turbocharger with electrically controlled variable pitch blades. This > in a vehicle that will...
• Turbos, exhaust manifolds and engine mounts
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:13:18 EDT
  ...For diesel engines using the original VW/KKK or Garret turbochargers, the quantum TD manifold will fit with an airflow quenching inlet tube (rubber...
• Re: Why I love Mercedes Benz but would never own one of their cars
  Historical mailing list - David M
  Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:09:19 -0700
  ...per power stroke (and cost at least $1K each) and a > turbocharger with > > electrically controlled variable pitch blades.� > This in a vehicle that will...
• engine conversion experiences (long)
  Historical mailing list - Bj�rn
  Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:49:05 -0800
  ...The TDI has usually 90 hp and can be modified through chip tuning and a variable vane turbocharger to about 115 hp. The increased...
• Re: Hydrogen help for the Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:23:34 -0800
  ...The most common use of water injection today is in vehicles with aftermarket forced induction systems, such as turbochargers or superchargers. Such engines are...
• Re: An Engine Conversion Begins-Mixed Emotions! - 3A Comment
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Tue, 17 Sep 2013 12:19:48 -0400
  ...How strong? I developed a turbocharger and pressurized the engine to 4 psi and it pulled like a sled dog with no problems. Until...
• Re: Hydrogen help for the Vanagons
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 30 Jan 2011 23:24:17 -0600
  ...The most common > use of water injection today is in vehicles with aftermarket forced > induction systems, such as turbochargers or superchargers. Such > engines are...
• Re: Superchargers? - Low Pressure Turbo!
  Historical mailing list - Frank Grunthaner
  Fri, 8 Jul 2011 02:44:17 -0400
  ...Superchargers? Anyone have any experience with superchargers on a VW? Turbochargers get all the ink..everyone talks about Turbo Subies and Bostig transplants. In...
• Re: Why I love Mercedes Benz but would never own one of their cars
  Historical mailing list - Tom Hargrave
  Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:39:51 -0500
  ...per power stroke (and cost at least $1K each) and a > turbocharger with > > electrically controlled variable pitch blades. > This in a vehicle that will...
• Re: Bostig Turbo update-long, sorry this is exciting for me
  Historical mailing list - Daryl Christensen
  Wed, 5 Jan 2011 19:13:16 -0800
  ...I wonder about the evolution of the turbocharger. In the old days you would have been happy to have gotten 30-40,000 miles...
• some tool suppliers (long) ...
  Historical mailing list - Joel Walker
  Fri, 21 Jun 96 08:48:30 CDT
  ...gasoline injector cleaner and flow 4710 Allmond Avenue bench, automotive turbochargers, Louisville, KY 40209 diesel injection equipment (502) 361-1181 (502) 364-3200 FAX...
• Re: Superchargers? - Low Pressure Turbo!
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Fri, 8 Jul 2011 00:19:00 -0700
  ...Superchargers? Anyone have any experience with superchargers on a VW? Turbochargers get all the ink..everyone talks about Turbo Subies and Bostig transplants. In...
• Re: Bostig Turbo update-long, sorry this is exciting for me
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Thu, 6 Jan 2011 12:49:51 -0800
  ...I wonder about the > evolution of > the turbocharger. In the old days you would have been happy to have gotten > 30-40,000 miles...
• Re: French Syncro Club
  Historical mailing list - Philippe Oudot
  Wed, 11 Dec 1996 21:58:39 +0100
  ...Fuel pump and turbocharger pressures are of course increased. Until now, it works fine. Oettinger does other conversions like a 2.5 liters with...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon - Ford Focus Engine alternative
  Historical mailing list - David Marshall
  Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:09:15 -0800
  ...We've bolted on a turbocharger, but > the engine is stock, and quite capable of the power levels we're > targetting. > > How long will...
• Re: Superchargers? - Low Pressure Turbo!
  Historical mailing list - Jake de Villiers
  Fri, 8 Jul 2011 08:13:17 -0700
  ...Superchargers? > > Anyone have any experience with superchargers on a VW? Turbochargers get > all the ink..everyone talks about Turbo Subies and Bostig transplants. > > In...