Wednesday, September 24, 2014

The world's first car with aluminum turbocharger



Recently, Continental announced that its turbo product research and development has made new progress, Mini Cooper turbo the world's first car to use aluminum turbochargers already in volume production.

It is understood that the first half of 2014, the increase is already equipped with the turbo three-cylinder gasoline engine in MINIHatch to enter the market.
Continental's Powertrain Division Engine Systems business unit responsible WolfgangBreuer said: "Aluminum turbocharger is a milestone of this lightweight material products than traditional products nearly 30% weight loss, while also reducing costs.."
According to the company's product line turbocharger responsible UdoSchwerdel introduced this product to break the traditional turbocharger as an additional type of engine parts stereotypes,4 cylinder 2.0 turbo and with the engine together as a whole. In product design, not only completed the requirements of the turbocharger itself,T3 Turbo but also the success of this product will be integrated in the engine cylinder head.

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