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Supercharger: Possibility for our engines? |
Dr Evil |
Mar 9 2011, 04:47 AM
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Send me your transmission! Group: Members Posts: 23,002 Joined: 21-November 03 From: Loveland, OH 45140 Member No.: 1,372 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
I was looking into ways to do odd things to make more power. What else is new. I came across a standard, root type supercharger hooked up to a corvair engine that was pretty kick ass. I like superchargers in that they are cleaner to install that turbos and do not have the lag. Then, I found the Vortech centrifugal superchargers and felt that these just might be an interesting way to bolt on power.
http://www.vortechsuperchargers.com/catego...n=SUPERCHARGERS Cheap? No friggen way, but cool! Used ones can be gotten for much less if you know what model to use. I need to read up on what is required of an engine to be supercharged vs turbo charged if there is a difference in configuration. An interesting aside for my specific interests regarding the reverse running corvair engine; the 4cyl Honda ones would be easily adaptable, possibly. The only problem I see is that there are no 3.1L honda 4cyl engines. So, what do y'all know about supercharging? How about thoughts on doing it to a TIV or any other power plant that we could throw into our cars? |
Dr Evil |
Mar 10 2011, 10:00 AM
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Send me your transmission! Group: Members Posts: 23,002 Joined: 21-November 03 From: Loveland, OH 45140 Member No.: 1,372 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
Yup, the plan is the 230 SLK SC to be used (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Cheaper, available, not needed to be mounted on the intake.
SC can be mounted like an AC compressor. The centrifugal ones are smaller, easy to place, but $$$. Turbos lag, SC is linear and can start boosting from 1500rpm up. I have heard of twin turbo, how common is twin SC? |
rohar |
Mar 10 2011, 10:43 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 924 Joined: 25-October 08 From: spokane Member No.: 9,685 Region Association: None |
Yup, the plan is the 230 SLK SC to be used (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Cheaper, available, not needed to be mounted on the intake. SC can be mounted like an AC compressor. The centrifugal ones are smaller, easy to place, but $$$. Turbos lag, SC is linear and can start boosting from 1500rpm up. I have heard of twin turbo, how common is twin SC? Turbos don't always lag a lot. With modern technology you should be able to pull off 7lbs pretty low. Again, on that watercooled 1.8 we crossed 7lbs at about 1400 rpm. A properly sized cermaic centered hair drier makes a lot of difference. We were using a single 28 pulled from a 300zx twin. There is a nice thing about the slight lag. Clutches will last more than a week (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) I'm not sure I'd go twin anything on a 2 liter or smaller, but yes, twin supercharger has been done. Haven't seen it in production though. |
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