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Old 08-22-2008, 10:49 AM   #11 (permalink)
Vince-HX
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In my former life as an aircraft mechanic, our airplanes used what is called an Air Cyle Machine. Look on Wikipedia for an explanation. Basically it uses high temp - high pressure bleed air from the turbine engine compressor and cools it and then allows it to expand, which results in a cooling effect. Maybe you could do a similar thing with a turbocharger and an intercooler and then allow the expansion.

Sounds like a lot of work!

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Two turbo's and three intercoolers, yeah that a bit of work

really neat idea though

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looking forward to seeing what kind of uber-sipper slinks out of the full race skunkworks.
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