Centrifugal Supercharger?

[bathtub.toaster]

Has anyone done this yet? I'm building a turbo 2.3 and I'm just curious if anyone has even tried putting a centrifugal supercharger on one. Would it be easier since you don't have to mess with exhaust manifolds or intercoolers?

 

[franklin2]

Supercharger takes more power to run versus a turbocharger.

 

[Jim Oaks]

For some reason this makes me think of electric superchargers.

But not like this:

 

[scotts90ranger]

If I remember right that's the belt drive units that have a gearbox attached to what looks like the cold side of a turbo? If so they work fine but sometimes they're hard to package... I haven't used one personally but we have at work in the past...

 

[bobbywalter]

yes....lots of lima supercharged

 

[Blmpkn]

Prochargers are the worst of both worlds.

You have a compressor that's only efficient & doing it's job during a certain rpm range AND it's sapping HP whenever you're not in boost.. not to mention the cost..

Wouldnt necessarily be easier than turbo either. You'd still need to find space to mount it and make brackets.. plumb the charge piping..

Youd really want an intercooler at anything above 5lbs too.. so consider the cost/gain ratio. 5lbs would be a 25%ish gain.. is that little gain really worth 3 thousand+ bucks and a bunch of elbow grease? I'd say no personally.

Go with a turbo and intercool it if you want more than 5lbs

OR

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^^ get one of those.

You'd still have to build brackets & plumb the thing, but it doesn't cost many thousands of dollars and will give you boost throughout the entire rpm range

 

[PlumCrazy]

Mounting a 2.3 turbo setup is the easy parts. Tons of space and tons of cheap manifold options. The expensive part is when it comes down to aftermarket engine management...which you will need for any boosted EFI application.

 

[superj]

megasquirt it for the engine management. they have prebuilt kits now days so you aren't soldering a bunch or diodes, resistors, and junk onto a motherboard yourself.

though building it was very interesting. like an adult lego kit but only 500 bucks

 

[PlumCrazy]

megasquirt it for the engine management. they have prebuilt kits now days so you aren't soldering a bunch or diodes, resistors, and junk onto a motherboard yourself.

though building it was very interesting. like an adult lego kit but only 500 bucksI

I have megasquirt on my 88 turbo truck, it ends up being a bit more than $500 all said and done. For the 95+ stuff it can be tuned via SCT or the like (I used SCT on my supercharged 4.0)

 

[franklin2]

megasquirt it for the engine management. they have prebuilt kits now days so you aren't soldering a bunch or diodes, resistors, and junk onto a motherboard yourself.

though building it was very interesting. like an adult lego kit but only 500 bucks

Megasquirt has always interested me, but I have a hard time spending the money AND committing myself to a engineering degree to learn how to program and set the engine up.

Versus staying stock and just plugging the stock computer in place. I know there is not much fun in that, but have you ever drove a vehicle where you did not know how it worked and how it was put together? I rarely have but when I do, it's enjoyable.