TT aed by Hugh Macinnes Turbo Design — Sizing & Matching — Installation Details Controls — Carburetion — Intercooling — Water Injection Street & Race Cars — Boats — MotorcyclesTURBOCHARGERS by Hugh MacinnesTABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. . * ‘Supercharging & Turbocharging Turbosharger Design Choosing the Engine Choosing the Turbocharger Carburetion & Fue! Injection Ignition 8 Exhaust Systems Lubrication Contras Intercooling Marine Engines TwoStroke Engines... High-Altitude Turbocharging Installations Do's Don'ts & Maybe's . Tractor Pulling « Maintenance. co Kits & Where to Buy Them Exhaust Emissions Water Injection Motortyclas Turbotharging the Indy Engine Appeniiix 2 Gloksary Symbols Y Tables Altitude Chart ‘Turbocharger Failure Analysis Acknowledgements Compressor Selection Chart Horsepower Increase Chart Manufacturers & Distributors Kit Makers & Installers. 108 110 119 128 132 136 192 157 160 163 168 168 169 170 172 173 4 178, 115 188 192 “Hurry Round Hondo” jet boat is Gale Banks Engineering's racing test bed. Engine in hhull is same as the one on the cover of this book. Boat holds A.P.B.A. “K” Class (un- limited) Jet Boat 1600 meter course record: 112.5 MPH for 5 miles. Boat also won 1975 Jet Boat Nationals. Stock bore & stroke 454 CID Chevrolet big-bloek produced 1,067 tbs. ft. torque at 8,300 RPM; 1,687 HP at 28 Ibs. boost with straight alcohol Engine equipment includes Carillo rods, forged pistons with 1.094-inch Chrysler "Nascar pins, Iskenderian roller eamshatt and rocker arms, O-ringed block and heads, polished combustion chambers, stock ports, 7/16. ‘chargers and the 2.3/8 inch wastegate are AiResearch units, Banks’ shop di printing and assembly and supplied the stainless-steel exhaust system featu ich pushrods. TEO-691 turbo. the blue- 13 O-rings ‘on cast stainless header flanges and expansion bellows to prevent stress cracking, No intercooler was used in this configuration. Bost photo by Al Bond, Editor & publisher Bill Fisher Cover design: Josh Young [Bok design & assembly: Naney Fisher ‘Text & caption typography: Lou Duerr, Marcia Redding Figures: William Pine, Erwin Acuntius Cover photo: Photomation Photography: Hugh Macinnes, Bill Fisher, Howard Fisher, others ISBN: 0.912656-49-2 Library of Congress Catalog Gard No. 76.6002 H.P. Book No. 49) © 1976 Printed in USA, 6:76 H.P. Books, P.O. Box 5367 ‘Tucson, AZ 85703 602/888.2150 ‘An independent publication-not asso: ciated with AiResearch Industrial Divi sion of Garrett Corporation, Fiiay Industries, Inc. Schwitzer Corporation, Roto-Master, or any other wrbocharger ‘manufacturer or installer, or kit builder NOTICE: The information contained in this book is true and complete to the best of our knowledge. All of the recommends: tions on turbocharger sizing, matching, in stallation and use are made without any guarantees on the part of the authors oF H. P. Books. Because design matters, engineering changes and methods of appli cation are beyond our control, the author ‘and publisher disclaim any liability in. curred in connection with the use of this data or specific details