I had a question over email the other day about an E85 converted, supercharged BMW 3-Series. After answering the question, I thought it would be helpful and interesting to demonstrate to all my readers here and followers (on facebook and twitter) the advantage of using E85 on a supercharged set-up and the possibilities it opens [...]
Can I supercharge [this] car?
Is a question commonly asked on car forums, yahoo answers, and in the speed shops. Of course [this] stands for your specifically owned car, be it a work truck, a track dedicated racer, or a dual purpose vehicle that sees both daily use as well as occasional track time.
Any car [...]
How do you go about modifying a car that is truly a benchmark in its own class ?
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The M3 has always been the top of the line street performer. With cheetah like reflexes, jaguar like top speed, and the growl of [...]
The RX8 is a great performance car out of the box. The car is a direct competitor in its class of nimble and balanced track ready street cars. This class includes the likes of the Lotus Exige, the Honda S2000, and the Mazda Miata.
These cars typically boast there nimble handling, great engine response, balanced front [...]
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Hi , it’s Haitham again and this is another one of our.. how-to videos around the Power calculator on Supercharger Performance .com
What I’m going to talk about today…
is timing advance and tuning your ignition curve.
First we’re going to talk about some of the underlying concepts of ignition timing and timing advance
Then we’re going to look [...]
Alternative auto tech announces their new supercharger kit for the 2010 Camaro.
The kit is based on the eaton TVS (twin vortex system) with the new 4 lobe rotors and 160* lobe twist.
AAT hasn’t released much detailed info on what’s included in the kit… but we do know is that it does include the following:
Eaton TVS [...]
The Nissan GT-R is designed to be a Porsche killer. Being the flagship of all Nissan (and currently all Japanese Supercars), it has claimed that it runs a Nurgurg Lap faster than a standard porsche 911.
To add insult to this injury, tuning camp “Power Enterprise” has embraced this new beast and twincharged it. Wait! I [...]
The Lysholm / Autorotor Supercharger is a unique and very practical chager. The unit is a great compromize between a positive displacement supercharger (that creates boost pressure by over pumping and over feeding the engine with air) and a compressor (similar to a turbocharger) that compresses the air inside the supercharger housing before sending it out [...]
I have adrenaline in my veins. I’ve gone through phases of watching touring cars, Nascar, Drag racing sundays, Formula 1 and lately I’ve been really intrigued by the insanity of MotoGP. Now i’m going to be completely honest here about 2 things:
1- I don’t ride motorcycles, but being an engine builder and performance lover the [...]
I’m going to talk about my own car for a bit here… I’ve been in the performance scene for a long time and have helped a lot of people fix, repair and build up their cars from being a stock neglected and abused second hand car into being a gem of a dual purpose daily [...]
I ran into this great article on DIY head porting on the Toyota 3VZ-fe (V6) engine. The article illustrates a step by step on porting the head complete with flow numbers and port moulds. In the article, the Toyota gains flow from 204CFM to 230CFM on the intake side and from 154 to 170 CFM [...]
A friend of mine is building an intake manifold for a naturally aspirated Toyota Celica. The car is equipped with a 2.2 liter 4 cylinder engine that generates around 135hp @ 5500 with 6200 rpm redline. With a lot of modifications, the engine can achieve 180 crank hp @ 6200 rpms and turbocharged and supercharged [...]
Since we are Supercharger Performance, I knew that I’d have to talk about this topic sometime…I didn’t want to get into it though, without emperical evidence.
I am an engineer, I understand the math, I understand the arguements and the counter arguements about electric superchargers…One day I do wish to see a universal supercharger that doesn’t [...]
There comes a point in your power buildup where you may consider adding nitrous oxide injection to your supercharged car. This point typically coincides with reaching a level of performance that means increased investment and diminishing returns from your supercharger. For example, my car comes from the factory with a 5th generation eaton MP45 supercharger. [...]
Staying with this theme of ’superchargers can have great top end’; I’ve geared this post for supercharger tuning for top end pull.
Let’s say for example you owned a 4G69 2.4 liter Lancer Ralliart. The Ralliart is a 2.4 Liter stroker motor with a massive 100mm stroke. In stock trim the car produces 168hp @ 6000 [...]
There’s a lot of discussion on the forums about weather superchargers have enough top end pull and weather turbochargers are better for high rpm and high speed operation. Usually these comments are made about cars that either lack intercoolers, or are factory equipped with an undersized supercharger that runs out of breathe and becomes less [...]
Here’s an interesting supercharger setup from MM&FF magazine, with a great 305 performance build up:
The 180hp 305 engine has been upgraded by:
An Eagle / DSS / K1 stroker buildup brining engine displacement up to 347 cubic inches (5.7 liters).
Holley Systemax high performance aluminum cylinder heads
Holley systemax single plane intake manifold
Kennedy’s Dynotune custom supercharger camshafts
vortech J-Trim [...]
Audi was commissioned to set up a racing car for Hitler for a 1939 race season.
Their weap of choice includes:
A signle overhead cam (SOHC) V12 engine with 2 valves per cylinder.
Twin roots style positive displacement superchargers in a non-intercooled setup, with a very peculiar twincharged setup it seems where one charger is feeding the other.
Two [...]
Here is a beautiful example of a Hemi Supercharger setup in a 1972 Plymouth Cuda. The car is featured on mopar muscle magazine and is a gutted and tubbed ’street’ car powered by a 6.1 liter Hemi engine. The nicest touch on the car is the use of a water to air intercooler to cool [...]
Building on the beautiful high revving v8 powerplant, MTM motorsports upgrades the performance, looks, styling, and handling of the 4.2 Audi RS4.
The heart of the upgrade package is a Lysholm twin screw compressor elevating intake pressures to a modest 6 psi. This fairly low boost pressure means that the engine’s static compression ration can be [...]
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Ripp modification’s has released a new jeep supercharger kit for the 3.8 liter V6 Jeep JK. The supercharger kit is a simple yet effective kit comprising of:
A vortech V-3 fully enclosed and self oiled supercharger head unit.
A manderel bent induction pipe on the supercharger hot side.
Two additional RC fuel injectors for additional injection.
A tuned Ripp [...]
Gt motorsports provides five stages of supercharger kits for the 350Z based on the HKS supercharger kit and Rotrex centrifugal charger.
The stage 0 core HKS supercharger kit includes:
HKS Rotrex Centrifugal Supercharger Unit
Front Mount intercooler
S/C Controller (Engine Management w/direct plug harness) based on the HKS
Traction Oil Cooler
Tuned Cast-Aluminum Mounting Bracket (This bracket has been specifically engineered [...]
Check out this cool article on HondaTuning where Comptech performance superchargers and AEM come to the rescue of this enthusiast to get him out of a tight spot with his girlfriend.
The car in question is a 2004 Acura TSX coupled with:
Gruppe M intake
DC Sports 4-2-1 Header
J’s Racing 60RS exhaust
Comptech roots style supercharger
pulley Boys High boost [...]
Vortec performance has always been a leader in product innovation in supercharger performance applications. I believe Vortech was the first American Centrifugal supercharger manufacturere to dive into the import performance arena and realise the trend of the age of performance enthusiasts shfting to a younger generation and shifting to a smaller displacement market such as [...]
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May 13, 2009 6In 1986, Toyota released a supercharger car based on the stellar 4age motor found in the corolla. The MR2 with its mid engine rear wheel drive platform was a great everyman’s supercar and was powered by the 4agze supercharged motor…
Now, everybody’s heard of unicorns, these mythical creatures that somewhat similar to horses, but possess more [...]
Check out this article by Street Rodder showcasing this clean, very black, and very sleek 1932 Packard Phantom Coupe.
The coupe a modified ‘99 LS1 sporting:
Daniel Corle Aluminum heads and water pump.
Magnuson Supercharger
Street & Performance polished intake manifold
Custom Comer’s header back exhaust using Flowmaster mufflers
A lightweight aluminum drive-shaft…. and more
Find the full article here:
1932 Packard [...]
The whipple supercharger is a unique and very practical chager. The unit is a great compromize between a positive displacement supercharger (that creates boost pressure by over pumping and over feeding the engine with air) and a compressor (similar to a turbocharger) that compresses the air inside the supercharger housing before sending it out to [...]
I am inspired by GM-Australia. They have taken the Vauxhaull (Pontiac GTO) family car and turned into a car for the automotive enthusiast family. The latest edition of the Vauxhall is dubbed the Vauxhall VXR8 Bathurst S, and packs alot of bite.
The Vauxhall VXR8 Bathurst S starts off with a factory 6.2 liter V8 producing 431 hp [...]
The experienced tuner and resto-performance firm Fesler Moss has teamed up with General Motors to produce a limited edition of Fesler Moss 2010 Camaros. The cars come with an option of any GM performance engine including the LS3, LS7, LS9 and LSX.
The car is further equipped with:
• Fesler-Moss braned Magnuson Supercharger
• Larger exhaust upgrade
• 6 [...]
The German Ferrari tuner Novitec Rosso has just released a complete upgrade package for the Maserati GranTurismo S
The upgrade package includes a Rotrex Supercharger, chip tuning, and complete exhaust system.
The result of these upgrades is an increase in power from a stock 434 hp for the type S GranTurismo to over 600 hp.
Find the complete article [...]
Rotrex is Danish Centrifgual Supercharger brand and engineering and technology company. The company’s first
patent was issued in 1996 in recognition of their traction drive supercharger system. From their location and their experience within the european market (which is identified by its strict emissions, noise and pollution standards), rotorex has developed a line of effecient, low [...]
The LS1 powered Camaro Z28 is a great car, with plenty of power and great modification potential. One of the typical upgrade paths for Z28 owners is high flow heads, high lift moderate duration cams, and healthy doses of nitrous oxide. In unleashing this nitrous driven frenzy on the LS1 engine, the LS1 has proven [...]
This is the first in a series of ’snapshots’ of a manufacturer’s superchargers that I plan on posting every so often. As you can see it’s written in simple English (in horsepower and boost) and is an easy way for people that don’t know how to read a compressor map to get a good idea [...]
Building on the potent GT-500 plant, there are many possible ways of creating more horsepower, from basic bolt ons, to upgraded superchargers, to oversized motors… This is a great article by MM&FF showing three different power stages that are possible for your GT-500:
Stage 1:
JLT cold-air intake
Single-blade throttle body
Supercharger and crank overdrive pulleys
Bassani axle-back race exhaust
Everything [...]
What modifications do I need when adding a supercharger to a truck? What modifications do you need when adding a supercharger to any car for that matter?
When adding a supercharger to your car there isn’t that much that changes with the basics of how the car works. The main difference between a supercharged car and [...]
I love limitless situations, the view of the open ocean, an endless twisty country road, and the limitless potential of
good engineering practices. One of the cars that I feel in love with a few years back is the BMW M3 CSL. The M3 badge tells you that this is a special car for a special [...]
I realize that I’ve spent a lot of time in the past two weeks talking about roots style positive displacement superchargers. Those are not the only types of superchargers out there. Centrifugal superchargers have a top end biased power curve that works perfectly for applications where there are traction limitations, in drag racing where most [...]
This is a great article by muscle mustangs and fast fords. A lot of turbocharger and supercharger enthusiasts think that a certain supercharger or turbocharger will produce X hp per psi and that the only way to get more power per psi is to change up to a more efficient supercharger or turbocharger.
This article here [...]
This is the triple distilled guide on engine performance parts to help you make the most power with the least effort. There’s an abundance of bolt on and custom application engine performance parts available for any vehicle, and the internet is full of advice, trials, and feedback from enthusiasts, brand promoters, magazine editors, and even racers about which [...]
Saleen Motorsports (SMS) is now offering it’s Lysolm based twin screw supercharger used on the 700 hp Dodge Challnger 570X as a bolt on package for your dodge.
The supercharger kit comes complete with all the intake plumbing required for the install, upgraded fuel injectors, and a built in high efficiency compact air to water intercooler [...]
There’s an abundance of bolt on and custom application engine performance parts available for any vehicle, and the internet is full of advice, trials, and feedback from enthusiasts, brand promoters, magazine editors, and even racers about which performance parts are best for your car. This is the triple distilled guide on engine performance parts to help you [...]
A brief guide that explains how to pick the least engine performance parts to improve the performance of your supercharged car.
A lot of times we find ourselves seeking a supercharged car, not only because it has good power from the factory, but also because we expect that a car that has forced induction from the [...]
Power Truck
Centrifugal superchargers are turbo like in design, centrifugally forcing air to compress by the use of single
compressor impeller rotating at around 120,000 rpms. Unlike turbochargers which are driven by a turbine impeller in the exhaust stream (connected to the compressor impeller via a solid shaft that allows them to spin together), the centrifugal supercharger [...]
The first time I ever heard of twin charging (using both a turbocharger and a supercharger on the same motor) was probably back in year 2000. At that time I was very interested in performance for the Toyota Celica and naturally I also read a lot about its sister cars (that shared some of the [...]
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April 8, 2009 0I was browsing my favorite automotive news sites today and three different articles seemed to jump at me. For 2010 three manufacturers have turned up the heat bringing mind boggling performance figures based on the supercharger performance concept.
The first article I ran across was the introduction of the all new Range Rover Sport LR4. I’ve [...]
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