Pat, I meant to imply that the compressor would be aluminum and the turbine would be Ti. I don't think an aluminum turbine wheel would last more than 30 seconds.
To be honest I had to look around and do a little research but CNC filament winding seems to be the best way to make a turbine or compressor wheel from a carbon composite. From the start I think there was some confusion that I was talking about typical "carbon fiber" which would not be ideal for...
Well at the very least it would be Al and Ti. They already do that in rally aplications, no sense in using inconel since all you would be doing is adding mass. Carbon would definitely be the choice for the housings.
F1 brake rotors reach almost 2000F (hotter than the turbine wheel would ever get). You could cut out the aero shape of a carbon composite wheel in the exact same way current compressor wheels are machined.
Cost would be a complete non issue were talking about a sport where budgets are almost...
The proper carbon composites won't have any problem dealing with exhaust gasses.
The first reason that comes to mind is the extremely high stiffness to weight ratio. I'm not saying I know exactly how to build it or even that they would use carbon for those parts but it would be the first...
I would think they would be made almost entirely of carbon if the rules were free. It's pretty much the perfect material for the wheels and housings. The rules would most likely dictate what they were actually like.
It keeps coming up that "theoretically" MBT would be at TDC... That's pretty far from the truth, like has been said already all you would do is create a huge bending force on the crank with absolutely no torque (ignoring any wrist pin offset). I have never done an extensive study but have heard...
