<VV> COOLING FANS - outside the box - Way outside

[Bill Elliott]

I had both a Turbonique turbo/supercharger and a rocket engine. Those of 
you at the Chicago convention a few years ago may have seen them 
displayed in the swap meet. The engines were used on little rocket 
powered go-carts.... scary stuff. The Turbonique catalog I had showed 
pictures (and testimony) for the rear-axle mounted items like Seth talks 
about... reportedly the "stealth" way to add about 100hp or more while 
looking dead stock under the hood.

 Turbonique also made a Corvair-specific supercharger. The guy that 
bought my collection had one in his collection.... he think it's was one 
of possibly 3 produced.

I never had the guts to even fire off one of mine...

Bill

Tony Underwood wrote:

> At 04:46 PM 8/5/2007, ScottyGrover at aol.com wrote:
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>> anybody old enough to remember the "Turbonique" direct drive  engine. 
>> It used
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>> small gas turbine, as I recall, to direct drive  the rear wheels. The 
>> nice
>> thing  about an auxiliary drive for cooling  the motor is that it is
>> (generally
>> speaking) unrestricted by  sanctioning bodies. How about a small gas 
>> turbine
>> driving the  cooling fan on the motor? With some kind of gear 
>> reduction to
>> keep
>> the speed of the fan down to a reasonable RPM. - Seth  Emerson
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>> Seth,
>> An interesting idea; can anyone tell us why it would or would not  work.
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> Not sure about Turbonique engines but Turbonique *Did* make a variety 
> of superchargers Back When.
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> Check this one out.
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> http://www.the-rocketman.com/images/tech/gallery5/PAGE-60-TOP-TURBONIQUE.jpg 
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