370z and Turbonique

510z · 09-16-2009, 09:36 PM

Turbonique

can you imagine having a rocket powered supercharger under the hood of your car

510z · 09-16-2009, 09:39 PM

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The engines proposed by Turbonique Inc. were turbine driven engines. These were, seen from the perspective of our 21st century, quite rudimentary. They consisted basically of a carefully designed circular chamber (snail housing) where a rocket type burner was ignited and the thrust of the burned gases was used to make a turbine spin at high revs. This movement was converted into a more useable power source by means of a reduction gear. The turbine reached speeds of 92,000 rpm. The reduction gear brought this movement to a more useable 5750 rpm speed with astonishing high torque output. The micro-turbo engines were really powerful !

It must be stressed, on the passage, that the Turbonique applications had, in general, a very short running time span: the thrust engines could run for one or two minutes, the superchargers for a little longer period (up to about 10 minutes) and the microturbo engines not much more than that.

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09-16-2009, 09:36 PM	#1 (permalink)
510z Enthusiast Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Phoenix Posts: 328 Drives: 09 370z Blue M6 Rep Power: 18	Turbonique can you imagine having a rocket powered supercharger under the hood of your car