Turbo idea for 2012

[majicmeow]

The transmission would be hell... gearing it high enough to produce usable boost (compressor RPM) would cause either terrible lag at low speeds or compressor stall/overboost at high speeds, unless I'm mistaken..

If it's geared to produce maximum boost at 10-14000rpm, you'd essentially have no boost below that and would otherwise be wasting engine power just spinning it (as a conventional supercharger) therefor proving to be completley counter-productive in an F1 engine...

OR

You gear it so that you have maximum boost in the low revs (6-10000rpm) and then run into stall or overboosting at high revs.

Just how I see the situation...

[wuzak]

The transmission would be hell... gearing it high enough to produce usable boost (compressor RPM) would cause either terrible lag at low speeds or compressor stall/overboost at high speeds, unless I'm mistaken..

If it's geared to produce maximum boost at 10-14000rpm, you'd essentially have no boost below that and would otherwise be wasting engine power just spinning it (as a conventional supercharger) therefor proving to be completley counter-productive in an F1 engine...

OR

You gear it so that you have maximum boost in the low revs (6-10000rpm) and then run into stall or overboosting at high revs.

Just how I see the situation...

There's a wonderful invention out now - it's called a CVT - continuously variable transmission. With a CVT you could have full control over the air flow and boost.

[neilbah]

so can we somehow over spin the turbo with electric motor or transmission coupled with cvt and clutch and make use of the excess air for another purpose or is this a waste of energy? recirculation? use wategates somehow for trick exhausts? i expect there is a restriction on inlet size? turbo lag isnt really a problem these days is it? im expecting alot of innovation but i havent read the rules yet...are we still having kers? can we combine all of these things together inline with the crank for example? just thinking inside the box..