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Old 11-06-2014, 01:22 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by yomny View Post
So just speculative talk here, so if there's no plumbing coming from the exhaust gases then the concept of recycling waste exhaust to produce new power would be gone. There would be no turbochargers/supercharger just an electric air compressor. I know this isn't the exact case, but i associate supercharger as belt driven and turbochargers as exhaust driven. No point to my post, just adding to the discussion. I dont know if this is good or bad for us but i think its similar to the electric/combustion powered super cars.. they're great on paper and on the road but there's this certain "eehh" to the idea to us purists.. oh well the future is here.
Yup, just like I'm all "eehh" about electric cars replacing internal combustion engines, but it's going that way all the same!
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