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Old 02-26-2021, 01:09 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kach22i View Post
If you like it, must mean you understand it.

Please explain it to me, what am I looking at?
I think the confusion is that the the ejector Tatra has no cooling fans. They replaced the cooling fans in their low-dual stock position with the two ejector tubes around the star shaped exhaust outlets. The high speed exhaust entering the ejector draws air in the base of the ejector. The fans aren't involved.

If you look at this image, you an see the blocking plates around the ejector exits where the slightly larger fans once were, and the ununsed pulley that drove them:



They supposedly gained ~20hp by eliminating the fan drag, but it was loud, and I assume it didn't work as well at low speed/idle so it wasn't something used outside of race cars.
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