Tweet Hot Rod magazine brings us a no nonsense buildup of a street supercharged LS7 engine. The engine features the following modifications: Custom eaton TVS supercharger Setup Cogged 4” wide belt drive system 13psi boost pressure setting 90mm custom fabricated intake system and throttle body Integrated intake manifold with custom air to water intercooler...
Tweet 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...
Tweet How do you go about modifying a car that is truly a benchmark in its own class ? The M3 has always been the top of the line street performer. With cheetah like reflexes, jaguar like top speed, and...
Tweet Update: The article below was written for an older version (version 3.1) of the header calculator. Since then, in version 3.3 and above, the power calculator is able to do all forms of header calculations, including: Primary and secondary pipe lengths and diameters Shorty, tri-y, and long tube header designs Targeting a specific...
Tweet 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...
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 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...
Tweet 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...
Tweet 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...
Tweet 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...
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