Nah, was thinking more along the lines of this in the the newer chassis cars.

http://www.streetlegaltv.com/forum/supercharger-gear-drive-christmas-1812.html

 

i see...

 

I first started playing with "Boost" when I was in college in Missouri in the late 60s. A guy had a Olds 215 CID (aluminum engine) Turbo car. I later worked for Holley Engineering in Warren, Michigan. Holley was doing some "Blow-thru" (In a Box) work on Holley 4 bbls. At the same time Buick was looking at doing a draw thru system on the Buick 231 cid Regals with a 2bbl carb and also a Q-jet carb. I went up to Buick Engineering several times and looked at their progress. At That time I was buying Turbos from Rajay in California.

One of the young engineers at Holley decided to build a Twin Turbo Corvette with Rochester Fuel Injection. I sold him the turbos for the car. Body was a 68 Corvette. Engine was a SB Chevy.

I was hired (while I was on my Lunch hour at Holley) by Ford to work on the Ford 1979 Draw-thru Carb Mustang program. I inspected the Boosted Cars and made sure that they drove correctly before they were sent to the EPA in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mostly that job was Government Certification of the vehicles.

Since then I worked on some portion of pretty much every boosted engine program Ford has offered.
1979-80 Mustang, 1984 SVO, Turbo Coupes, Super Coupes, Lightning Trucks, Ford GT, Vortech Boosted 1996 Cobra (mule), 4.9L twin-turbo F-150 truck (mule), Hydrogen Powered V-10 Bus, Super Chief V-10 Truck, and of course parts of the ECO-Boost programs.

Hank Dertian was a good friend of mine who worked on the 79-80 Mustangs and later worked for many years at SVO.

So to ask how did you "get educated" to do what I am doing?

1) I tried to read every bit of info I could on Boosted Engine systems. I read all of the books, etc.

2) I read every NACA Technical Paper on Boosting from 1918 until the jet engine was introduced.

3) I talked with every Turbo Expert who would answer my questions: Gale Banks, Dave Austin, Don Hubbard, Harry H, Bob Keller, Bob Mullins, Ak Miller, Ohio George Montgomery, Danny Jones, Corky Bell, Jerry Magnason, and many others. By the way they all know each other very well.

I tried to figure out every thing that "went wrong" with the previous Turbo or Supercharged system and not have the next program make the same mistakes again.

We have a few young "Boost Guys" currently at Ford Research and at Forward Model who I have mentored over the years. One guy went to Texas A&M, another went to Cornell, both were Mechanical Engineers by training.

When the Boost stuff was moving slow at Ford, I would work on race projects on the outside (for free) with the boosted race teams like Jimmy Keen, Elias D, John Meany, Travis Quillen, Gale Banks, etc.

One team has run a best of 6.27 at 228 mph (taking 500 hp out of the engine to get down the track).
(Door Car).

It is not one "school" that makes you a "Boost Engineer", it is years of learning bits and pieces along the way.

Tom Vaught

 

aahh, i think you knew i had one of your 'parnters in crime " over here tthe other month ?
pontiac guy..

 

I didn't see where he said it but he got a Mechanical Engineering degree.

 

Having a Mechanical Engineering Degree or a Electrical Engineering Degree seems to be the common criteria to get a job in the auto industry these last few years. When I first came to Ford we had Chemists, Aviation guys, Aerospace guys, Manufacturing Engineers, Management Guys, Emissions guys, and "General" Engineering Degree people working with me.

Some of these "General" Engineering Degree" people were later in their careers CHIEF ENGINEERS, DIRECTORS, and Technical Specialists in their areas. They typically came out of the military schools:
"Hudson High" (West Point), "Canoe U" (Annapolis), etc. My point being that you do not have to be a "Mechanical Engineer" to be successful in a engineering field.

Tom Vaught