My have things changed
Over 10 years ago when people posted their new truck HP figures people were coming back with posts like: "When is the HP madness going to stop." "This HP thing is out of of control, it's madness". "Wh...
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ShinerBock wrote:
Slap a turbo on a gasser and you will make a less efficient because it will need to inject more fuel for added air.
The main reason I see for any efficiency loss is that they generally reduce the compression ratio about 10% to control NOX with the boost. However, some of that will be made up when idling since the smaller engine requires less fuel at idle. The two boosted engines that I own are much more efficient than the non-boosted engines that they replaced and I have several friends and relatives with the 2.7 Ecoboost reporting amazing fuel economy numbers, double the mpg that my V10 gave with nearly as much power.
