Does running twin supercharger's make sense?
11-02-2007, 04:09 AM
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Does running twin supercharger's make sense?
I haven't been this industry as long as some of the members on here and this was a first time seeing this set-up and am curious to learn more about it.
Was at SEMA this week and saw an awesome mustang that had a Twin Procharger set-up. Never considered such a set-up and was wondering what pro's and con's there might be to this type of set-up.
First thing that came to mind when I saw it was unique, and the second one that came to mine was, that's alot of blower friction to overcome compared to a single set-up with smaller pulley's and drives or a twin turbo set-up of similar proportions.
Just wondering what people's opinions are and how they think this would work. Car was unbelievable!! I'm gonna try to upload some pics of it but photobucket was down when I posted this thread.
Was at SEMA this week and saw an awesome mustang that had a Twin Procharger set-up. Never considered such a set-up and was wondering what pro's and con's there might be to this type of set-up.
First thing that came to mind when I saw it was unique, and the second one that came to mine was, that's alot of blower friction to overcome compared to a single set-up with smaller pulley's and drives or a twin turbo set-up of similar proportions.
Just wondering what people's opinions are and how they think this would work. Car was unbelievable!! I'm gonna try to upload some pics of it but photobucket was down when I posted this thread.
11-02-2007, 07:29 AM
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Well... I almost agree w/ Trick in that it could be a real-estate issue and couldn't fit a single blower large enough for the engine, but looking at that configuration I doubt it...
It looks like they were just interested in the bling. I doubt those intercoolers are very effective since they're sitting right over the engine with no real source of airflow to cool them off. There are some honkin' centrifugal blowers that would most likely be able to flow as much as those two (They look like Rotrex's, any idea what size they were?).
A good friend of mine (Mike Sitar) built a TurboCoupe with twin Eaton M90s... The reason he did that is because no one builds a 3-liter roots that is as efficient as the M90. Using two smaller units you can get the airflow you need in the efficiency range you want. Some of the bigger units aren't as efficient as the smaller ones due to the increased mass, leak paths, etc.
Either way, it's pretty cool looking. Definitely not the most performance minded configuration, but probably gets alot of attention when the hood is popped and that is probably the effect they want.
It looks like they were just interested in the bling. I doubt those intercoolers are very effective since they're sitting right over the engine with no real source of airflow to cool them off. There are some honkin' centrifugal blowers that would most likely be able to flow as much as those two (They look like Rotrex's, any idea what size they were?).
A good friend of mine (Mike Sitar) built a TurboCoupe with twin Eaton M90s... The reason he did that is because no one builds a 3-liter roots that is as efficient as the M90. Using two smaller units you can get the airflow you need in the efficiency range you want. Some of the bigger units aren't as efficient as the smaller ones due to the increased mass, leak paths, etc.
Either way, it's pretty cool looking. Definitely not the most performance minded configuration, but probably gets alot of attention when the hood is popped and that is probably the effect they want.
11-02-2007, 08:02 AM
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Some companies will do that when you want to use your product, but it's not big enough. Here's that setup.
http://www.w2wpowertrain.com/pc-96-9...drive-kit.aspx
http://www.w2wpowertrain.com/pc-96-9...drive-kit.aspx
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11-02-2007, 09:46 AM
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Its pretty common in the marine industry. Many of the high performance boats have twin supercharged big block engines. Whipple does a bunch of twin setups. Probably not what you were looking for, but still pretty damn cool.
http://www.whipplesuperchargers.com/...sp?ProdID=1179
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http://www.whipplesuperchargers.com/...sp?ProdID=1179
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11-02-2007, 10:59 AM
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I agree that it is common in the marine engines. Teague Custom Marine (Teague Racing) builds twin supercharged big blocks and small blocks that put out more than 1000HP