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yes, no, does it matter?
Posted by saw (more from saw) on Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:06:36
In Reply to: Are Turbo engines more stressed?, mark, Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:28:53
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Sure I suppose you can say yes. Turbo charging is about pressure which argueably stresses an engine. Yet in daily driving the engines in a road going production turbo car like a SAAB or Volvo never really never seem stressed out. In fact to the contrary compared to similary cars without a turbo there seems to be a fatter reserver of power in the middle which seems to allow greater flexibily without requring a build up in revs thereby arguably reducing the stress on the engine. Well at least it seems that way to me right or wrong.
I assume you ask because of concern about reliability which brings me to the point of does it matter? If the engine is engineered to operate dependably and reliably it doesn't. Counting myself, parents, and sib we have had about a half dozen turbo charged cars over the last couple decades. Three of them remained in the family until ~200,000 miles (2 around ~180,000 and one ~220,000). None of them ever had an engine or turbo failure of any kind. We will have to wait for the final verdict on the others but they are all in the 60,000 to 160,000 range and have been flawless so far too in this regard.
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Posts in this Thread:
- Are Turbo engines more stressed?, mark, Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:28:53
- No Problem, JStull, Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:34:14
- Re: Are Turbo engines more stressed?, Dean, Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:19:44
- yes, no, does it matter?, saw, Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:06:36 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Are Turbo engines more stressed?, David Farley, Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:46:12
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