We have a 2011 test vehicle with over 200,000 mile and another 5,000 hours of idle time and no fuel injector issues with direct injection. The high pressure fuel pumps around 100,000 miles factoring in the miles and idle time.
Man, I’m learning so much. Thanks for taking the time to respond and share, BC.
I share what I can when it gets released to the public.
Here is a good interview done a couple weeks ago on autoline. Grant Terry is one of our supercharger managers and covers the business and technology pretty good in this interview on the show. Does a good job comparing the turbo to the supercharger. You have to forward the video to about the 23:00 minute mark where they start the interview with Terry. The TVS design was develop by one of our engineers that did the design using only math equations! One of the smartiest guys I ever met that was really book smart and plus he could apply that acknowledge. He left a few years ago to be, get this…
a rocket scientist. 
I wasn’t clear in my first post - THIS is the question I was asking about PM’s and MBTF. I know DI has been around for quite a while; especially in diesel vehicles; but the piezos in, say, an Isuzu/Duramax truck engine are not subject to the sudden changes in flow that would be expected in a 'Vette (especially if the leadfoot maniac in the driver’s seat were ME! )
Amazing.
The mag- clutch technology sounds amazing. Really something else.
I can’t wait to put a supercharger on my wife’s new Beetle with the Audi 2.5 5 cyl. We actually have an Eaton plant here in Asheville, just down the road.
Great vid, man. Thanks!
We started using that clutch tech on the VW super turbo engine back in 05 and has work very well with lots of praise from the owners. Just comes down to cost as you are buying both a supercharger and turbo system.
http://www.autoblog.com/2005/08/23/vws-supercharged-turbo-engine/
The electrical plant in Ashville makes electric car charging stations among other products. I usually don’t deal much with them, but did environment testing here in our cold chamber for them a couple years ago on the charging station. I do “a lot” of testing for our plant in Roxboro NC. A lot of our new products go to that plant.
That VeeDub unit is really cool technology. I have the same worries about that stuff too.
I’m doing a lot of research on the Audi L5, and I think I’ll probably find a TVS to install on it.
I’m def going to put on on my next v8 project. But a big gaudy one coming out of the hood.
You could do two M90 gaudy ones poking out of the hood. This one is on a 351w in a 88 Tbird. The project no longer lives, but was a co workers car.
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