http://www.germancarfans.com/news.cf...id/2051115.002

 

that last paragraph from the article sounds alot like MIVEC, go figure...

 

Yeah the variable cam stuff is nothing too new, but the variable turbine geometry they talk about sounds pretty bad ***.

 

One of Shiv's good friends, Jay is an engineer at garrett. He was telling me a few years back about this stuff, since that is what his primary focus is on. Its absolutely incredible, and equally expensive.

 

So are you basically telling us, we shouldn't get excited about this?

 

now if we could only pony up around 100k for this car when it comes out.

 

100k keep dreamin...

 

Variable vane technology has been around for a little while. I can't wait to see it hit the market for everyday use.

Hell, it seems like the reverse wheels on the Mitsu turbos are hard enough for turbo shops to hack already. I sure hope Mitsu uses non reverse turbos by the time they start using variable vane.

 

Ford Powerstroke's run this technology for their turbo, they have to in order to get the thing to spool...hehe

 

Chrysler had a variation on this in the late 80's , believe they called it VNT used it on a few 2.2L/2.5L turbo motors.... nothing but turbocharger failure for chrysler..... but was a little bit different design.

 

Kind of a neat idea, that turbo charger works much like modern day jet engines.