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jjuutinen
Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 180
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 09:55 Post subject: Location of carburettor |
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I was just rereading GrahamĀ“s R-2800 book and in the VDT section he mentions that use of pure turbocharging (i.e. no mech stage) would have required direct injection. I assume this is to mean that carburettor does not work if placed on the pressure side of the supercharger. However, Russian/Soviet engines like Mikulin AM and Klimov VK (Klimov had 6 diaphragm carbs) series had their carburettors on pressure, not suction side. Any idea on pros and cons of such location? |
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szielinski
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Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 94 Location: Canberra, Australia
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2004 23:34 Post subject: |
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Blow-through carbs are quite possible with supercharging, mechanical or otherwise, and this has been done with many automotive applications. It's just that it IS harder, as any operations/functions based on pressure have to be referenced properly. Eg if you had a Holley carb on your blow-through turbo set-up, you would need to make sure the "power-valve" had the atmospheric side of the valve referenced to the boost pressure, not atmospheric pressure - else it would probably never see a low enough pressure difference to open. This goes for every single possible leak point. Would you like fuel leaking through the throttle blade bushes in a plane you're flying in ? Carbs set-up in this way often seem to have large amounts of external plumbing to prevent such pressure leakage.
Now, compare the cost of modifying a large expensive aero carb to 'blow-through' operation compared to having a DI system that 'does it all' - with mass airflow etc.
Add to this the complexity of a carburettor system that has to cope with varying start-up mixtures and turbo-lag at low rpm and the DI system probably would be heavier - but simpler to implement.
Also, does the chapter specifically mention the 2800 with respect to VDT, or does it potentially refer to a larger engine such as 4360 that may have greater mixture problems without an axial mechanical supercharger ?
The bottom line ?
Make everything as simple as possible - but not simpler. Just like Einstein said. |
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gwhite
Joined: 13 Jul 2003 Posts: 58
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2004 15:07 Post subject: |
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The reason direct fuel injection would be required for a purely turbo'd appliciton is for mixture distribution. |
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