About 15 years ago or so someone turboed a U20 that was pictured in Roadster
Review.
Hey Gordon, do you remember whose car it was? I know it was sold a few years
later but I don't remember to whom.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Neuman" <dneuman@quark.sfsu.edu>
To: "Andrew Murphy" <solex67@hotmail.com>
Cc: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Turbo your U-20!!
> 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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