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Why I like Volvos


Chris Wilson

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Revs to about 7500, not a lot, some rev to 10,000, but they are race ones. The noise is just the turbo, they sound really loud in a dyno cell. Only thing I don't like is the way the ancillary drive belt flaps about, it needs an idler pulley, the harmonics damage whatever it's driving. It's things like that you can see, alter and fix so easily on an engine dyno.

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I'm winding you lot up, it's actually something very trick, it's a twin charged engine, it runs a supercharger for off idle boost, and a turbo to fill in the top end, there's a pic of the installed engine at http://gatesgarth.com/volvo_dyno/volvo_twincharged.jpg I had another video showing the s/charger install better, but I can't find it. The square box is the valve to stop the SC bleeding air across the turbo until tyhe turbo is making enough boost to exceed the S/C output. I did have a link to the guys who built this fabulous things web site, but as usual I can't find that now.

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