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Old 05-29-2008, 10:14 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by LostCause View Post

If you want to drive something with the turbo, send the energy back into the engine. You'll need a slip clutch, sprag clutch, and reduction gears. It has been done since WWII to great effect. Improving the efficiency at the top of the chain will yield more results than improving efficiency somewhere along the middle.



- LostCause
If I'm assuming correctly here, you mean (simplified) to actually use the turbo to spin a pulley attached to the crank pulley?

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