BTN MAG Rev4 M2.qxp 27/11/06 15:12 Page 1 Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA, are used to high speed the first and only man ever to drive at supersonic speeds when visitors. In 1914 Teddy Tezlaff drove a Blitzen Benz at 141.73mph he averaged 763.035 mph on the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. to set an unofficial record and the Salt Flats achieved Running soon after daybreak on 23rd August he recorded international fame in the Thirties through the efforts of Salt 365.779mph (588.664kph) on his first run and 335.695mph Lake City racer Ab Jenkins, who set a number of endurance (540.248kph) on his return, giving the average of 350.092mph records in his Mormon Meteor. Tales of the firmness of the (563.418kph). surface attracted legendary land speed record breaker Sir Malcolm Campbell who, on 3 September 1935, became the first As he celebrated with his jubilant crew, Green said: “I am so man to exceed 300mph with a speed of 301.129mph in his pleased that we have got the car to 350mph, which was always Bluebird. Campbell was succeeded later that decade by fellow our ultimate goal, and that was with a slow start to the second Britons George Eyston and John Cobb and, in the mid-sixties, run. There is so much more to come as the car is pulling like a American Craig Breedlove became the first man to break the train and we still haven’t used sixth gear! 400, 500, and 600mph barriers there. “Today’s record proves the potential we have always believed However, the Flats had never seen anything like JCB DIESELMAX JCB DIESELMAX to possess. This is another great result for a which, in August 2006, set and then broke a series of records to wonderful team and a testament to British engineering. What become the first diesel-powered vehicle to achieve a stunning we have is basically a digger engine that has been made into the 350mph (563kph). most powerful diesel car engine in the world.” JCB DIESELMAX was the brainchild of JCB Chairman Sir Anthony "To have built the world's fastest diesel in such a short timescale Bamford, born of his desire to showcase the extreme is a wonderful achievement for the JCB DIESELMAX team,” said performance of the JCB444 diesel engine, which normally Dr Tim Leverton, Project Director. powers the company's backhoe loaders and Loadall telescopic handlers. With a drag coefficient of only 0.174Cd, JCB DIESELMAX is fitted with two JCB444 common rail diesel injection engines, bored out to 5000cc and fitted with specially modified twin compound Garrett turbochargers that use lightweight housings, since weight is a crucial issue. Power output is 2 x 750bhp @ 3800rpm and the engines deliver 1105 “What is even more lb ft of torque at 2500rpm. Even with two six-speed manual impressive is to set three gearboxes, the car weighs only 2700kg including fuel, oil, ice records – 317.021mph, and water coolant and driver. 328.767mph (526.027 kph) The driver was Andy Green, who set the World Land Speed and 350.092mph (563.418kph) Record in 1997 when driving ThrustSSC, with which he became in only six days.” BTN Turbo Limited, BTN House, Arundel Road, Uxbridge Trading Estate, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 2RP, England Telephone:+44 (0)1895 466666 . www.btnturbo.com VNT™ is a registered trademark of Honeywell International. VGT™ and Holset Command Valve™ are registered trademarks of Cummins Turbo Technologies BTN MAG Rev4 M2.qxp 27/11/06 15:12 Page 3 Welcome to Revolution Two more awards for BTN Turbo We don’t want to sound smug, but when we receive awards you’ll 4 excuse us for being proud! Another year is nearly over and what a remarkable year it’s been for the turbocharged internal combustion engine, At the recent Automechanika show in Frankfurt, Germany, we were awarded as Audi wins Le Mans (and everything else) with a diesel powered car and a tractor company reaches 350mph with a the Garrett Performance of the Year Award for 2004 and BorgWarner’s Distributor diesel engine! of the Year Award for 2005. I hope you’ll find this issue of Revolution as interesting and informative as previous copies. Our Sales and Marketing Director, In our 32 years of trading we’ve won 22 such awards, which recognise the levels of service and expertise that have made BTN Turbo Mark Dickinson, has started a new column by looking back at the industry in a year that sees us celebrating the turbo’s the leading independent distributor of turbochargers in the world. It’s good news for us; good news for our customers; and just a 100th birthday; our technical people have given us an explanation of how modern turbochargers can vary throughput to little more polishing for our cleaners! maximise efficiency and power; and you can see how a successful racing team is marketing an upgrade kit that takes an Audi TT to 350 bhp. It’s been another good year for BTN Turbo, too. Our initiatives, including turbo recognition from the VIN, the ‘new for old’ replacement policy on an increasing number of units and our ‘12 month no quibble’ warranty on commercial vehicle turbos have enabled us to maintain our market leading position. For more information on our services, including fault finding, build Mark’s remarks sheets and our complete catalogue, please go to www.btnturbo.com where you'll also find we've added a 'Spin Doctor' section. Industry comment from Mark Dickinson, By the time you read this Christmas will be nearly upon us. On behalf of everyone at BTN Turbo I’d like to wish you an Sales & Marketing Director of BTN Turbo enjoyable festive season and a happy, prosperous New Year. How times have changed! In this edition you can see that the turbocharger has just There are two reasons for this. The first is that, frankly, some celebrated its 100th birthday. Yet it wasn’t until the sixties that it units aren’t worth repairing. By the time we’ve stripped it, Rachel Birch was used on an American production car and it didn’t take off in obtained the parts, cleaned it, reassembled it and calibrated it, Editor European passenger cars until the seventies. Now consider that the costs add up to more than buying a new one off the shelf. BTN Turbo was founded in 1974; that means we’ve been around That’s why we’ve rationalised the range of turbos that we for about a third of the turbo’s lifetime and we were there at the remanufacture. start of the revolution on this side of the Atlantic. The other reason is the complexity of variable turbine units, such BTN’s Dealer Day plays on... despite the rain In 1974 petrol was 11.4p per litre and fuel consumption was only as Holset’s VGT™ and Garrett’s VNT™ models. They require such just becoming an issue because that year there had been a fuel sophisticated setting-up that any work other than light Just three days after the Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq was charged with ball tampering during the fourth Test, he and the crisis, which kick-started the drive for economy. Turbos were servicing is beyond the capabilities of even the most skilled rest of his team were due to entertain BTN and our guests by playing Middlesex in a one day test. used to boost power on already powerful vehicles. Diesel engines technicians. That’s why we’ll always supply ‘new for old’ when Unfortunately, torrential rain soaked the ground the night before the match. After a long discussion on the pitch, the outfield were noisy lumps used mainly in trucks and agricultural vehicles. you need a variable turbine unit. was declared unsafe and the game was called off. And our business was 100% remanufacturing. I can see that remanufacture will get even more difficult as But rain did not stop play for the BTN Dealer Day. The lunch, which was attended by seven Today, nearly 50% of all cars sold are diesel powered, and most future technology, such as the electronic controls that we’re of our top dealers and representatives from Garrett, Cummins (Holset) and BorgWarner, of them use a turbo. Diesel engines are quiet and smooth, and beginning to see, comes on board. For our customers' benefit, went ahead with delicious Indian cuisine. During the meal Ed Goodwin, Garrett's Director of the turbocharger has become a sophisticated, essential part we’ll keep on top of the latest developments, but we won’t Independent Aftermarket announced he had just become a grandfather for the first time. of the powertrain in the drive for greater efficiency and compromise on quality, safety or economy. It probably means As soon as lunch was over, everyone headed for the tenpin bowling alley near Heathrow. lower emissions. the balance will shift even further towards new units and you know you can rely on BTN Turbo to supply what you need, when The change of venue was quickly arranged following a suggestion from BTN Sales and BTN’s business has developed from the remanufacturing days to Marketing Director Mark Dickinson. you need it. the point where we have become the largest independent turbo It may come as no surprise, therefore, that the winner of the bowling challenge was the very distributors in the world, with nearly £2.5 million invested in The turbocharger has come a long way in 100 years. same Mark Dickinson! As Trevor Cass, Garrett Product Support Engineer said afterwards, new stock at our Uxbridge warehouse.