What if someone offered like $15,000 do you think they would do it?

 

Any answer?

 

I wouldn't even bother...I'd buy a 1.5L KB kit for a Ford Escape, sell everything on eBay but the supercharger, then modify it on there...that kit is only $3k...

 

Yeah it was on the previous page.

 

Ok thanks. I totaly missed it. I agree the calculator is off but I don't know in which direction. I lean towards it saying bigger than necessary.

 

Yeah. I think it is telling us a bigger pulley than what is really needed. In other words less boost and power meaning safer for the engine.

 

So we really should be able to run a smaller pulley and therefor have more room right?

 

Yes the smaller pulley would allow you more room physically and would give you a better chance of fitting the belt.

 

ZING!!! haha ok food for thought I guess. I can't believe those chargers have such a low RPM limit though.

 

Yeah the 1.33 is kinda suprising at only 13,000. Really suprising with the 13,500 with the 1200AX since the Whipple version could spin to 20,000!

If you think about it though, the 3/5 rotor design has one rotor spinning at 13,500 and the other spinning at 22,500. The Whipple would be spinning at 20,000 would make the 3 lobe rotor spin at 33,333!!!

 

hopefully the new Eaton TVS supercharger will be worth waiting for... thats when turbocharbed cars will no longer have the advantage on the street.... If everything heard through the pipeline is true.

 

I doubt it will. It is only a 5% volumetric efficiency increase. It is still a roots so it will compress the air externally making more heat than an internal compression compressor ie centrifigal, turbo, twin screw.

 

yeah what he said ^^^

 

The TVS is an improvement indeed, but I don't think it'll make the numbers people are expecting. The twinscrew is still the way to go. Max boost from 2000rpms till you have to shift is right up my alley.

On the supercharger rpm deal, remember a twinscrew is putting out more CFM's, thus it doesn't have to spin as fast to do the same work. Not spinning as fast also helps with keeping the heat down and reducing the parasitic loss from spinning the blower. I hope certainly hope I can scrounge up enough play money to make a twinscrew swap happen when I get back.