Comments on: Cars Go Back to the Future. No, It’s Not the Flux Capacitor. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2007/11/26/cars-go-back-to-the-future-no-its-not-the-flux-capacitor/ Sat, 11 May 2013 22:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Dennis http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2007/11/26/cars-go-back-to-the-future-no-its-not-the-flux-capacitor/#comment-698 Dennis Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:33:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2007/11/26/cars-go-back-to-the-future-no-its-not-the-flux-capacitor/#comment-698 Turbo's have been on large American cars, mainly sport cars. The main problem with that is the lag time. When you stomp on the accelerator with a car that has a 350CID engine, about five seconds after doing so the car gains so much power many people lost control...crashing. But the main reason turbos have not been used more is cost. They are high precision items, and when the bearing that holds it together starts wobbling, they have a bad habit of exploding like a turbo-fan jet engine. This dumps pieces of metal into the engine.... Due to this cars with turbos have to use really good oil in their engine, since that is where the oil to cool/lubricate the turbo comes from. Also added cost. But I am not defending the American manufacturers. Imagine that they chose cost over efficiency......Even for their high end cars.... Turbo’s have been on large American cars, mainly sport cars. The main problem with that is the lag time. When you stomp on the accelerator with a car that has a 350CID engine, about five seconds after doing so the car gains so much power many people lost control…crashing.
But the main reason turbos have not been used more is cost. They are high precision items, and when the bearing that holds it together starts wobbling, they have a bad habit of exploding like a turbo-fan jet engine. This dumps pieces of metal into the engine….
Due to this cars with turbos have to use really good oil in their engine, since that is where the oil to cool/lubricate the turbo comes from. Also added cost.
But I am not defending the American manufacturers. Imagine that they chose cost over efficiency……Even for their high end cars….

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