TSI engine - what's good about it?

Many have already heard about the notorious breakthrough of Volkswagen, which occurred due to the fact that the company developed the TSI engine. The novelty feature is a significant increase in power, as well as a reduced fuel consumption. Since to believe a word in our time is already indecent, the review will consistently describe the technologies that make the TSI engine special.

To begin with, it is necessary to define the novelty. TSI is a gasoline engine that has direct fuel injection and a double turbocharger. Most likely, you have already thought that there is nothing special about the above that the technology of double turbo-charging is quite common and has long been used for various needs. But most often it finds application in building powerful and fast cars for racing.

The TSI engine has one interesting feature. As the primary supercharging, a mechanical compressor is used, and after reaching a certain RPM mark, the high-pressure turbine "enters into battle". This solution allowed engineers to achieve the development of high engine power at low (1500 rpm) revs. Quite a lot of companies that are testing auto-novelties, were interested in this development and decided to check how good TSI   engine. Reviews about him, in most cases, were very satisfactory.

Most of all, the company was impressed by the high elasticity of the engine at all speeds, the soft response to the accelerator pedal, the quick gusts to dash away into the distance. These characteristics TSI engine produces on all transmissions and at almost any number of revolutions. We could not stay away and not try out the TSI engine that was so vividly described.

Reviews of qualified and slightly "spoiled" experience testing various innovations of the automotive industry specialists have just confirmed the claimed by Volkswagen the advantages of the motor. Our tested car was worn in the city stream like a ripe one. Abrupt start and rapid acceleration do not make any problems for the engine. And this is in view of the fact that its volume is only 1.4 liters.

Note that, despite the small "high-speed explosions," which pleased the engine, it has a fairly low fuel consumption. In conditions of constant rise in price of gasoline this is the best variant of the engine, which one can only imagine. It is made in the best traditions of German developers.

All ingenious is simple. So in the case of the TSI engine: as long as the motor ramps up and is just about to "breathe in full," the mechanical compressor, which is driven by a belt drive, provides it with the required amount of compressed air. After creating sufficient exhaust gas pressure , the high pressure turbine begins to add more air to the intake system. Such a gradual and almost constant supply of compressed air allows the TSI engine to reach the required speed of rotation as quickly as possible, and hence speed.

Most of the motorists have already made their choice in favor of the TSI engine and were satisfied with the absence of dips, high power and fuel economy.