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• Naturally-aspirated engine
  ...urrent [[2000s]] era. However, most road-going diesel-engined vehicles use turbochargers, because naturally-aspirated diesels generally cannot offer suitable power: ...curb the excessive powers being developed by engines with superchargers or turbochargers.
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• Twin-turbo
  ...bocharger|turbocharged]] engine, usually larger than 2500 cc, on which two turbochargers compress the intake charge. There are two different twin turbo configurati ...own individual exhaust/turbo manifold, however on inline-type engines both turbochargers could be mounted to a single turbo manifold. Parallel twin turbos are usual
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• W engine
  ...tti produced the "[[Bugatti Veyron]]", with a W-16 engine, combined with 4 turbochargers, it produces 1001 bhp@6000 r.p.m, and it takes 64 valves to operate that 8.
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• Supercharger
  ...haft power of the engine, and in many applications are less efficient than turbochargers. In applications where engine response and [[power (physics)|power]] is mor ...tors Limited|Bentley]] in the 1920's. Since then superchargers (as well as turbochargers) have been widely applied to both racing and production cars, although thei
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• Turbo
  ...increasing the mass of [[oxygen]] entering the engine. A key advantage of turbochargers is that they offer a considerable increase in engine power with only a slig ...rasitic losses'' due to heat and exhaust backpressure from the turbine, so turbochargers are generally only about 80% efficient, at peak efficiency, because it take
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• Blowoff valve
  Society of Automotive Engineers. Turbochargers and Turbocharged Engines. Warrendale, PA, 1979. [[Category:Turbochargers]]
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• Snecma
  ...ano-Suiza]], [[Sochata]] and [[Bugatti]]. Bugatti's automobile background (turbochargers and engines) was valuable to Snecma. In a subsequent reorganisation all aer
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• Exhaust pipe
  ...re generally produced as [[aftermarket]] performance systems for cars with turbochargers. Some turbo-back (and header-back) systems replace stock catalytic converte
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• Turbocharger
  ...increasing the mass of [[oxygen]] entering the engine. A key advantage of turbochargers is that they offer a considerable increase in engine power with only a slig ...rasitic losses'' due to heat and exhaust backpressure from the turbine, so turbochargers are generally only about 80% efficient, at peak efficiency, because it take
  19 KB (3,049 words) - 12:22, 8 October 2009
• Maserati Barchetta
  ...ined V6, 4-ohc, 24-valve, electronic fuel injection, twin water-cooled IHI turbochargers
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• Ferrari 288 GTO
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• Maserati Shamal
  |Engine:||3.2-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine, 2 [[IHI]] watercooled turbochargers
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• Forced induction
  ...upercharger]]s. They differ mainly in the power source for the compressor. Turbochargers are driven by the exhaust gases of the engine, whereas superchargers are dr
  5 KB (791 words) - 08:19, 7 October 2009
• Ferrari 126 C
  ...overall. The engine was fitted with twin [[AG Kühnle, Kopp & Kausch|KKK]] turbochargers and produced around 600bhp in qualifying trim, detuned to 550bhp for the ra
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• Car tuning
  ...hile promising an increase in power output. Car tuners usually install new turbochargers, modify the car's engine cooling unit, and replace the air filters; but the
  8 KB (1,297 words) - 18:20, 26 April 2010
• Lancia LC2
  ...was destroked to 2.65 litres to increase fuel economy, while two KKK turbochargers were added for power. The specific engine displacement was chosen because
  11 KB (1,704 words) - 20:37, 3 November 2009
• Ferrari 488
  ...ed with two parallel ball-bearing [[Turbocharger#Twin-scroll|twin-scroll]] turbochargers supplied by [[IHI Corporation|IHI]]/[[Honeywell Turbo Technologies|Honeywel
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• Formula One engines
  Turbochargers were banned from the [[1989 Formula One season]], leaving only a naturally
  22 KB (3,308 words) - 12:51, 19 March 2009
• Motorcycle
  ...l destroy itself as well. However, due to the special motorcycle dynamics, turbochargers are rarely used on production bikes.
  38 KB (6,073 words) - 19:26, 6 July 2009
• Diesel engine
  [[Variable geometry turbochargers]] have flexible vanes, which move and let more air into the engine dependin
  33 KB (5,114 words) - 22:11, 23 September 2009

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