I'm doing a technical paper/presentation on something that's technical, worldwide significance and engineering background. I chose Turbochargers and Turbo Systems...

I plan to talk about the history starting with aviation, production cars and eventually competition cars. My purpose is to show how Turbos help improve efficiency of modern combustion engines.

I'd then get into design details of each part (WG, BOV, I/C) and hopefully break each one down with a cutaway picture or graphic of some sort. I'd also get into the different kinds of intercoolers and the pros/cons of each. Also about types of turbos such as ball bearing, Dual BB etc... oil cooled or water cooled or both.

To help explain a turbo system I think I'm going to talk about to get power from an engine you need high compression (correct, right?) so with a NA motor you use elevated pistons to achieve that compression ratio. With a turbo you do the same thing, without internal modifications correct?

I'd then talk about turbo lag and reliability and advantages/disadvantages of turbos and why you should use one.

So far all I have is a Wikipedia page and I need at least 5 sources. I mainly need a website with good cutaways that show something like hot gas entering and then the blue side inducing and compressing. I assumed you guys would be great to ask for help

thanks in advance
-John

 

stuff like that

 

I think Aphotic (I think thats the member I'm thinking of) is a on campus suspension teacher and made one of his students write a whole paper on turbo's or something haha. He might know of some info for you

 

Cool pic

 

those are some examples of pics I have so far. The vortech will be used in the pro/con section to show alternatives to turbos

 

know tons of **** on it now. let me see if i can get a web site out of the book the kid was using and post it up for you. one minute

 

here is sites that it gave me (when i looked the book up online)
hope they work for you

http://www.rtec.ch/turbo_basics.html
http://www.jhdiesel.com/turbochart.htm
http://www.acarplace.com/cars/turbochargers.html

i'm to lazy to scan 50+ pages of hand writting stuff. but these are references from the book

 

you made that poor kid write 50 pages on it!?!? Hahaha

 

http://www.turbobygarrett.com/turbob...ch_center.html

directly from a turbo manufacturer.

 

it was a chapter on SC/turbos

10 page outline on supercharger section
10 page outline on turbo section
write all defintions (like 60 of them)
write all questions and answers at the review for each section (like 5-6 questions for each review. 12 review sections)
write 4 page essay describing what a SC does, how it works, whats the benifits of it, pro's and cons.
write 4 page essay describing what a turbo does, how it works, whats the benifits, pro's and cons.

1 page report on both, free writing on what you would like to have if you had a corvett....NOT A CADDILAC.