Why Ferrari engineers hate turbo’s have

Posted on 29-01-2015 at 23:19 by sir_smokalot – 61 Comments”

If there are no strict emission requirements existed, than would the current Ferrari with a huge bow to turbo’s go, and this is why.

With the California T launched Ferrari-its first model in decades with turbotechniek, and also the facelift of the 458 will have to believe. In short: the V8 models get turbo’s, the V12’s hybridetoepassingen to have the ability to increase power, says Ferrari.

What is there against turbo’s?

Therefore, a higher praktijkverbruik and ditto emissions when they are full at work, and an overall more complex motorhuishouding. Where an atmospheric engine to its redline to be more and more fun sound and more power it generates to give you a turbomdel understand the bottom of all the torque, and hits the engine at the top of the rpm range, out of breath. And while Ferrari’s understand one thing, and that is rpm.

Therefore, he says all kinds of tricks to apply, for example, by the torque in the bottom to limit, to a broad flat torque curve. This would be a little closer to the behavior of an atmospheric engine, and customers need to encourage still touring, even if they drive with a turboblok.

The above are not our words of Jason Cammisa of Road & Track, which they in turn lovingly whispers got from Ferrari’s extensive and almighty PR brigade.

Let than only a few points of criticism to add, that Jason still delicious panna cotta can continue to eat in Maranello: modern thick turbocharged engines have a torque curve that is wonderful just runs across almost the entire rpm range. If they are in Ingolstadt or Munich, then they are in Maranello.

And for what concerns the limit of torque: yes, that happens in the California T, which are full 755 Nm only in the highest gear, but we have the feeling earlier that this is done to ensure that the cabrio the more expensive 458, not the snot for eyes driving.

In addition: McLaren knows with his 3.8 turbo in the 650S still reasonable sports cars.

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Where we do not have to bring the argument of the turbogat (not the boost threshold). A turbo engine will never be as immediately responsive as a atmospheric, and that is precisely what you want in a Ferrari. In a Ferrari, are you one with your car, thanks to that direct connection between your accelerator pedal and the response of the car (Modern Ferraris do what you ask, when you ask, how you ask, says Cammisa).

The question is, which tricks the technicians is standing by to come to the performance of the turbocharged 458 as natural as possible, but assume that this is not about one night, the ice is gone. This is Ferrari we are talking about, so we have good hope.

We can one thing is still not uitvlooien: if turbo’s are so evil, why has Ferrari or the (delicious) F40? A one-time sin, in the time that it is not necessarily needed?