Tweet There are many great articles online on general piston design, piston ring design, and how the design of OEM and aftermarket pistons has changed over the last decade. What we will focus on today is the choice of a proper aftermarket piston for your street engine running a significant amount of forced induction...
Tweet 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...
Tweet The other day I had a thought about DIY modifications, possible fuel savers and other performance tricks and tips to increase gas mileage. See, although this is a performance oriented blog, as the cost of oil per barrell crosses the 70 dollars per barrell threshold once again, and as the economic depression in...
Tweet 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...
Tweet 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...
Tweet Our last articles about combining supercharger performance with turbocharger top end seems to have found some online appreciation. So, I’ve decided to write up a step by step on how to do the math for twin-charging your own car. I’m going to start with a typical compact car engine, such as the...
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