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Re: Turbo your U-20!!

To: solex67@hotmail.com (Andrew Murphy)
Subject: Re: Turbo your U-20!!
From: Daniel Neuman <dneuman@quark.sfsu.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:40:07 -0700 (PDT)
I looked at the picture not much of one.  If Iwas serious about selling a 
car I would have more than one small blurry picture of the engine.
                Daniel 
 
> You may not know this, but Mike Kerr has aready Turboed a U-20. There is a 
> picture of the engine on his website. www.innercite.com/wolfgang
> 
> Andrew Murphy
> SoCalROC
> 
> 
> From: Dan Neuman <dneuman@quark.sfsu.edu>
> Reply-To: Dan Neuman <dneuman@quark.sfsu.edu>
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Turbo your U-20!!
> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:22:43 -0700
> 
> Hey All,
>       I was home 'sick' from work today.. Actually was kinda sick and when
> you work in a hospital you can snake out of work if you feel kinda sick.....
> because its for 'the good of the patients'.
>       Anywho, I was reading this book, Maximum Boost by Corky Bell.  Its a
> pretty good how-to book about turbos.  Lots of good pictures and good theory
> it appears to be prettty inteligently written  and covers every aspect of 
> doing
> your own turbo set-up, I reccomend it. Plus, Corky used to race a roadster 
> in
> SCCA comp.  I turn to the chapter on blow thru
> turbo's and he says that the absolute best carb to use is .....our beloved
> mikuni 44phh!!!!!!  In one of the pictures they show a pretty cool looking 
> airbox/
> integrated air-to-water intercooler on a set of 44phh's.  Aparently BMW
> 2002s have the same carbs as us.
>       So, there does exsist aftermarket turbo set-ups for the 2002 this
> would seem to me to be a good place to start if I were crazy enough to want
> to turbo a U-20.  I think I might try to order a catalog from one of the BMW
> places advertised in GRM.   Also vintage BMW performance suppliers might
> have other Mikuni goodies, worth a look- how different is a BMW 2002 engine
> from our U-20's both OHC 2000cc inline fours running 44phh carbs.
>       Now if I can just find a good deal on a set of forged low compression
> pistons for the U-20....
> 
>               Daniel 69 2000
>               SF CA
> 
> 
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