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Lotus Europa Forums => Garage => Topic started by: exarkun1178 on Sunday,June 22, 2014, 06:14:21 AM
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Any one put a turbo on thoer wedge head? or know some one who has?
As my restoration finishes up (another 3 weeks or so) i have started thinking about ways to up the 78 horse power... ive found limited options. Ive been told there is a better cam out there somewhere. maybe lighter internals. outside of an engine swap its limited.
Got me thinking about a turbo set up... your thoughts.
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There was a kit available in period, but I don't know much about it. There is this PDF on Jerry's website:
http://www.lotus-europa.com/manuals/misc/engine/else.turbo.pdf
Serge
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There's always the turbo Fuego. Don't know how much HP its rated at or if it'll even fit in the engine bay. I have one sitting in the corner of the garage if you need pics. Dave Syer has some Renault engine info.
http://www.syer.net/donor_cars.htm
http://www.syer.net/comparativepics.htm
Joji Tokumoto
Fallbrook, Ca
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I found a 3/4 page black and white photo of a turbo installation for a wedge head Lotus in HP book titled Turbochargers by Hugh MacInnes published in 1978. There's not much detail in the photo, high contrast, lots of shadow. Still gives you an idea of the turbo layout. Looks pretty clean.
Joji Tokumoto
Fallbrook, Ca
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There was a kit available in period, but I don't know much about it. There is this PDF on Jerry's website:
http://www.lotus-europa.com/manuals/misc/engine/else.turbo.pdf
Serge
Serge, any idea what book that page if from? that book sounds like its the ticket.
The fugo sounds promising. at the very least looks like the block/ head can handle a bit of boost. I just had the engine re built so no interest in engine swaps. but am open to add ons. definitely worth doing more digging.
Thanks all. let me know if you all come up with more. ill post stuff as i find it
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That pdf on Jerry's site is from the book I mentioned. Unfortunately the text has no mention of the Europa installation, just the one picture.
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See if you can contact Steve Veris over on Yahoo Europa Groups. See if he knows anything
mike
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I emailed Steve last week on the topic. he knows its been done, but nothing additional.
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Stock wedge heads in Europa spec run 10.25:1 compression, too high for turbo conversion.
Fuego Turbo is a 1600 cc with a crossflow head.