Rocket Anti-Lag, making your turbo work like a jet engine- A quick overview and some mythbusting...

There's lots of commonly talked about subjects in tuning, almost mythical cars and setups, with usually very vague or wrong info, and this video covers two well known cars, and two well known setups, which in reality are both the same basic setup. Ie turning their turbos in to jet engines. Rally antilag, but the most 'refined' kind.

Furthermore to that, while people think that this setup is super hi-tech, well, it actually originates from the 1950s, abeit far more refined more now!

The cars this video is about is the 2006 (S12) onwards Subaru Impreza WRC, and Nic Mann's Mannic Beattie hillclimb car. And the two setups it's about is the Prodrive "Rocket" anti-lag system, and the Mannic Beatties turbo setup, which most people say is span by a helicopter gas turbine engine (it DOES use some parts, most likely the combustion chamber).

Well, not all people agree, certainly not the owner/builder/driver, Nic Mann, who even SAYS otherwise in this video, and he built it so he should know more than anyone else lol.
You wouldn't use as turbine to spin a turbine (ie the turbo), this setup uses a jet engine style combustor which spins the turbine.
The main difference is the Subaru uses the fuel and ign from the engine in the combustor as external sources aren't allowed by the rules, where Nic Mann's awesome car uses a traditional jet engine combustor where the fuel and ignition is ignited in the combustor.

The French Leclerc tank uses this same basic setup as part of its Hyperbar engine (like Nic Mann's, as no rules to prevent fuel being injected directly in to the combustor!)

This video is a mix of technical and "wow that's mental" video footage that I can't imagine anyone who's seriously in to tuning wouldn't love.

As ever, its nothing "New" (Though I doubt any of you have seen all of this info/pics/vids!), but it's all the correct info explained properly as one package, with all the 99.99% BS that's usually there all removed.

Enjoy.
Stav.