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| Tubeless |
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Tyres with no inner tube. Practically all cars come with tubeless tyres as standard. Unlike those that have a tube they lose air slowly if they have a puncture.
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| Turbocompressor |
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A supercharging device that can be used on petrol or diesel engines. It compresses the air that enters the cylinder by using the kinetic energy in the exhaust gases when they go to the atmosphere. It is made up of two turbines that turn at the same time via a shaft and which must be perfectly lubricated owing to the high temperatures that are reached when there are high revs (between 10 000 and 15 000rpm). It brings an improved engine performance simply by the introduction of more air into the combustion chamber. As the current of exhaust gases is not uniform variable geometry turbocompressors have been developed.
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The time between the pressing of the accelerator until the turbo begins to be effective. During this time the exhaust gases have to overcome the turbine inertia to accelerate their speed and to increase the flow of fresh air going into the cylinder. To reduce this time small turbo-compressors are used because they need only a small flow of exhaust gases to work and whose mass is low. Larger turbocompressors get higher peak powers but demand a more aggressive use of the engine. The solution consists in using variable geometry turbocompressors.
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