It just makes sense | Turbosmart Turbos

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Turbosmart are well known for many quality performance accessories including wastegates, blow off valves, fuel pressure regulators, anti-lag valves, boost controllers and more, but until recently they stopped short of selling turbochargers themselves.

At the World Time Attack Challenge, Matt Wright gives us some insight into how Turbosmart decided to not only sell turbochargers, but to sell their own designed in house with help from industry experts like Harry Hruska to get the ball rolling. There's no two ways about it, this move simply makes sense for a company like Turbosmart to explore.

Unlike how design was done by the pioneers of aftermarket turbocharging years ago using a lot of prototyping, these days Matt explains how the use of computer aided design (CAD) software and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) means a lot more theories can be discussed and tested before physical prototypes are made, giving Turbosmart the chance to explore a lot of design elements that traditionally would simply be too expensive to entertain.

Also touched on are some of the material and manufacturing considerations, turbo selection and how leveraging industry experience helps decide what target markets want a wider range of turbocharging options/solutions.
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TIME STAMPS:
0:00 - Turbosmart HQ - Matt Wright
0:24 - Why Manufacture Turbochargers?
1:46 - Development Process
2:21 - Turbocharger Advancements
3:00 - Airflow & Material Science
3:46 - Computing Power
5:27 - Previous Process Vs Modern Times
6:14 - CFD Experimentation Vs Real World Development
7:43 - Iterative Process
8:47 - Harry Hruska Consultation
9:03 - Design Specifics Across Brands
10:18 - Target Markets
10:53 - Turbocharger Manufacturing Processes
11:42 - Casting And Follow-up
12:03 - Design Work
12:22 - Feedback So Far
13:04 - Horses For Courses
13:22 - Turbo Selection
14:44 - Sizing Examples
15:47 - Advice Before You Buy
17:00 - Thanks Matt!
17:14 - @TurbosmartHQ
17:47 - BUILD.TUNE.DRIVE
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What's the most important performance factor you want from a turbo?

hpa

As someone who appreciates and understands turbochargers and development. Turbosmart is the only aftermarket turbo supplier in Australia (that I have seen) who produces their own compressor performance map for their product. I have checked this, and they are correct. Which means everything from Mesh metrics, to their output parameters and engineering is correct. They really need to leverage the fact that they provide compressor performance maps! Because all the other guys (apart from the largest garret, borg etc) wouldn't have a clue of their products performance range or design limits. 👍

BoostImmersion

Props for actually not bullshitting about the realities of modern day manufacturing...

Dave-but-why

The biggest thing that will help them sell is having a few people available to call. Just tried to call the California location after watching and got no answer. Being able to directly talk about a customers goals and requirements is paramount in making sales to the general public.

customcreations

The next big thing is an electric-assist turbo without a waste-gate. See Porsche GTS engine. Basically, a proper anti-lag system that doesn’t destroy your turbo.

TML

Took 37 years for turbosmart to wake up one day and live up to it’s name

allrise

If that's the Harry I'm thinking of they are working with the founder of Precision Turbo. I live near Hebron Indiana and have worked as a machinist in Hebron. If they are partnered with him these turbos are no cheap knock off.

loganriechers

Smart guy. Roughly 20 years ago the mod in the UK developed software for cfd. It was available for £80k. They had 5 guys working on it for 6-7 years by 2004 and were still learning and No. crunching, when they were forced to down size the No off staff.

gothicpagan.

Turbosmart turbos and Artec manifolds 😍😍😍

PANTYEATR

One thing which they haven't leveraged and really should is using priority wastegate positioned as a variable AR turbo system to have parallel exhaust flow - TurboSmart you are perfectly positioned to start thinking about it!

Upperfoot

As long as these are twice as responsive as PTE, they should be good. Hopefully almost as responsive as BW EFR. The days a 73+mm turbo comes on a thousand rpm earlier than the old PTE 6466. Let's hope the Turbosmart version keeps up with the times.

Skirk

Doing some math and trying to make an equal jump between sizes, you could probably have a set of roughly 6 turbo families to cover everyone, maybe 7. 300hp, 400hp, 550hp, 700hp, 900hp, 1200hp, and optionally a 1600hp capable turbo. That should cover everything from a 1.0L to an 9.0L engine and 6500-12000+rpm depending on the hot side. Especially if you could mix and match hot and cold sides a few sizes up or down for different applications.

One example that comes to mind is a 550 hot side with the 300hp or 400hp cold side for something like a roll race-only superbike. Sure, it's only an 0.75 to 1.4L engine, but they rev literally twice as high as any comparable or near-comparable car engine, so the flow is roughly equal to 2x the displacement for cars. The exact opposite example would be matching a 700hp hot side with a 550 or 400 cold side for something like a 3.5-4.5L 6-cylinder that you just DON'T need to make excessive power on. Or two turbos with a 400hot/300cold. Or twin turbos with 550hot/400cold for a V8 application that doesn't need 1000hp plus worth of forced induction potential.

I might just be entirely ignorant on the subject of matching cold to hot side and how much overhead (or lack thereof) with the former is required for a system to even be functional, but still, you guys get the idea, especially with my generalized sizing thing.

Drunken_Hamster