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#27769, "RE: Homemade jet engine using a turbocharger." In response to Reply # 2
there's a ton of turbo-turned-jet videos on youtube. they sound pretty cool.
Question (probably for Corbin or some other technogenious) - if you injected fuel into the downpipe after the turbo, does this make an afterburner type of effect? I bet that would sound cool before you blew up.
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#27776, "RE: Homemade jet engine using a turbocharger." In response to Reply # 3
Originally posted by ez there's a ton of turbo-turned-jet videos on youtube. they sound pretty cool. Question (probably for Corbin or some other technogenious) - if you injected fuel into the downpipe after the turbo, does this make an afterburner type of effect? I bet that would sound cool before you blew up.
If you inject fuel into the exhaust manifold before the turbo, it's called anti-lag, and it sounds like sex. Manifolds don't like it too much....
#27777, "RE: Homemade jet engine using a turbocharger." In response to Reply # 3
Originally posted by ez Question (probably for Corbin or some other technogenious) - if you injected fuel into the downpipe after the turbo, does this make an afterburner type of effect?
Yes, that is an afterburner. It looks like he has one on that video, unless that's just a thermocouple for monitoring the exhaust gas, which I doubt.
#27779, "RE: Homemade jet engine using a turbocharger." In response to Reply # 5
Originally posted by noboost
Originally posted by ez Question (probably for Corbin or some other technogenious) - if you injected fuel into the downpipe after the turbo, does this make an afterburner type of effect?
Yes, that is an afterburner. It looks like he has one on that video, unless that's just a thermocouple for monitoring the exhaust gas, which I doubt. /not a technogenious, I just like fire.
No, it's F&F nonsense
It's amazing how simple these things really are, just unfortunate that you can't produce more shaft horsepower out of something that small.
That radial jet looks pretty intersteing. I have to admit that I'd love to build one of these but would have absolutly nothing to do with it after it was built.
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#27785, "RE: Homemade jet engine using a turbocharger." In response to Reply # 6 Oct-04-07 02:04 PM by noboost
Originally posted by Keith2172 No, it's F&F nonsense
On a car, its nonsense. On a radial jet, which I assume is what Ez was referring to, it is an afterburner.
The reason it's nonsense on a car is because the ingested oxygen has already been used pretty completely in the engine. A jet exhaust has a lot of oxygen left over, so burning it by dumping fuel into the exhaust produces extra thrust without spinning the turbine any faster.
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