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Subject: Electric Turbo/Ersatz TR
From: "Chris Lillja" <Chris_Lillja@pupress.princeton.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 12:17:17 EST5EDT
Organization: Princeton University Press
... one electric turbo, coming up...

http://www.turbodyne.com/

90 amps intermittent operation with electric bypass valves. Used mostly on city 
buses as 
far as I can tell....

Makes Dan's small block Ford idea look better and better...

I can't see replacing a perfectly good 4cyl TR motor with a Toyota. A Spitfire 
motor, 
sure. But a 4cyl TR 2.2l puts out a solid 135ft/lbs of torque with minimal 
work. You have 
to really look for a Toyota rear wheel drive set up that comes close... most of 
those 
junk yard engines are expensive to rebuild (you WERE going to rebuild it, 
right?) and put 
out about 70- 90hp....Maybe a 4AGE, 135hp?... but you don't find those in 
junkyards...

Rant mode off.

Chris Lillja
Spit MkIV
Norton Commando
TR4A
Sube 2.5 GT

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