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Originally Posted by JETZcorp
I would be curious to know how much horsepower a turbo generates at the turbine shaft.
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This is a tricky question. The turbo is generating shaft hp, but, it is using that hp to stuff more air into the intake. If something else is done with that power, the engine will have a substantially reduced power output, which means that turbo won't spin as hard.
The bottom line here is that spinning a turbo to do anything other than stuff air into the intake is kind of dumb. Perhaps taking a small amount of the power off and further reducing the exhaust restriction to compensate may make some sense, but, I kind of doubt it.