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Old 10-06-2009, 06:36 PM   #20 (permalink)
basslover911
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Of course you could SKIP all of this and simply place a turbine in the exhaust (turbo) attached to an alternator.

But then your not really using the wasted exhaust heat but rather the normal (not-wasted) exhaust velocity and that WILL add way more back pressure... Unless a turbo also uses heat to spin it? (although it might, I think its main source of energy is the velocity of the exhaust)
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