Darryl Hattenhauer said:
What the heck kind of carburetion system is that on Beck's car?
Which one?
:lol:
Seriously though, if you mean the 1968 shot " Yeah, I'll take it!" that caught my attention too.
It looks like the dual carburetor set up from a Chrysler Hemi of late 50's early '60's vintage, especially those funny looking canister style aircleaners. It's what's feeding the tubes feeding the aircleaners that I can't see too clearly 'cause I can't enlarge the pic, but in fact it looks like they're turbochargers. (snail shaped housings)
I just think the era was a bit early for turbos. Superchargers (belt driven) were de rigeur, at least here in US, but not turbos (Exhaust pressure driven via enclosed vanes, ergo, no belts).
They existed but typically only in very high-end racing such as the FIA sanctioned formulas in Europe.
They do appear to be belt driven so technically they'd be superchargers even though they're not the typical style of the period, the big barn-looking things you'd see right on top of the motor.
It doesn't really matter what kind of housing the compressor's in though, it's how the higher volume of air is produced and introduced to the engine over the rpm range that defines the difference.
Superchargers will deliver boost gradually across a wide rpm range in a linear correlation to engine rpms because they're belt driven.
Turbos need to achieve an exhaust pressure threshold before they deliver "usable" boost and so their power surge is sudden, and typically occurs at relatively high rpm, which can be counterproductive to smooth driving and control.
Give me a supercharger every time. :wink:
In fact, give me back my old '90 Thunderbird SuperCoupe. Gawd I miss that car. A true "gentleman's hotrod".
