2007 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Examples of supercharged production engines
Published in: Charging the Internal Combustion Engine
Publisher: Springer Vienna
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The history of supercharged gasoline engines started with automobile racing applications. As early as in the 1920s, but especially in the 1930s, remarkable specific power output levels of about 120 kW/l were achieved via mechanical supercharging of Auto-Union and Mercedes-Benz racing engines.