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 [...]
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 [...]
I received a question in email last week about using the power calculator to design a tri-y or 4-2-1 header for a 4 cylinder application.
The car in question is going to be used during a hill climb competition, and in this type of racing a consistent average power figure is more important than a single [...]
Transcript:
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
My friend and I were having a heated discussion about automotive enthusiasts. He claims that all we do is waste money on cars to try and get some internet fame and maybe girls when it would be better to just spend that money socializing, spending more time with people and meeting girls.
Through this argument it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We are excited to release the second in our series of How-To videos on using the horsepower calculator.
In this edition:
Taking a 1.8 litre Mercedes C200 Kompressor engine to 320 horsepower.
First scenario: With camshafts for a power peak at 6200 rpms.
Second scneario: With stock camshafts, keeping peak power at 5500 rpms.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
In the movie “The Matrix Reloaded” Cadillac set off to showcase its new CTS model line as an edgy, abusable, and robust sports sedan. Since its introduction the CTS has evolved to be more technology packed and more power hungry. The line grew to add the CTS-V which boasted faster acceleration and higher performance, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Camshaft tuning is an essencial part of supercharger tuning. Camshafts orchestrate the valve opening and closing events in the engine and decide whether what comes out of our motor is beautiful high power music, or a mess of dysphonics.
The use of the proper supercharger optimized cam shaft can go a long way towards supercharger tuning [...]
Positive displacement superchargers do not usually compress air inside the supercharger but rather better described as air pumps. Positive displacement superchargers are usually rated in liters or cubic inches (or a similar measure of displacement). The reason behind that is that a 1.5L rated positive displacement supercharger moves 1.5 liters of air per revolution and [...]
Ever since its Iconic appearance in “Pretty Woman” the movie, lotus has positioned itself in the mind of millions as the sexy sports car. The resemblance doesn’t stop there as lotus has always produced lightweight, purposeful, curvy, and very intelligent vehicles. The fact that lotus uses very little power (but a surgically honed power to [...]
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 [...]
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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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