Fri Aug 31 16:07:55 2001

Here are some pictures of my disks and washers. I plan on using the arc washer unless the regular star washer works better. Once I find a good setup I'll cut everything out of stainless and polish to increase the efficiency. -- Don

Wed Sep 5 20:27:07 2001

Since your last update I have been in contact with Pat Nealon thanks to your "members page." He is going to help me with the design of the combustion chamber as soon as I am able to provide him with a little more info.

For now I plan to build a 40-50 horse turbo shaft. I have cut two disks out of 7 ga., eleven disks out of 16ga. and enough arced star washers out of 20 ga. to space all of the disks. I have only cut one of the regular star washers that you see in the pictures. 

... I plan to use your cooling disk fans to duct out the heat from around the hot rotor assemblies and pump in fresh air. I will also use that high temp exhaust wrap on the input and output tubes -- they use it on headers to reduce the engine compartment temperature and it also increases the horse power by keeping the exhaust gasses hotter and moving faster.

I will gladly accept any advice or ideas that people may have to offer on my design so far.

Thanks for all of the help so far! -- Don

Sat Sep 8 16:41:52 2001

Here are some pic's of the compressor blade off of a turbocharger I plan to use to feed the turbo shaft... I will be using a T04 turbocharger from Garrett to run a combustion chamber and the exhaust from that will feed my turbo shaft.

Don