Yes it would. Boost is a measure of restriction. No restriction = no boost. By opening up a restrictive exhaust, the engine can exhale more exhaust and allow more intake air to fill the cylinders sooner. Basically the efficiency of the pump (engine) is better with the open exhaust, and that allows the other pump (the supercharger) to more easily fill the cylinder. In this scenario, boost pressure may be lower, but actual cfm of air should be as much or higher.

 

So his intercooler was too small. (?)

 

1/2 to 1 psi of boost gain is what I thought. The only other thing we did was to increased the runner lengths on the intake manifold by a 1/2" and shaped them for faster air speed off the inside corner of the floor. Air speed effeciency was increased by almost 4%. I'm still running the same exhaust setup as before. Time for a smaller pulley? lol

 

So with higher cfm numbers and lower boost numbers, I should be making more power than before?

 

i still want to get ahold of one of those MP1 intakes. Doesn't Wilson make an adapter for the throttle body? What else did you have to do to make it work? I'm still wanting to get the composite intake off. The sheetmetal intake Wilson said they would make for me was in the $3,000 range... uuhhhhmmmmm NO!!

 

Wilson makes one, but I didn't like the design because of the short radius. I just made my own.

 

If you truly have more CFM flow and show less boost, then yes. You generate heat when you compress air. Making 10 psi will create more heat than 8psi and use more power to compress the air, which is where efficiency comes in. More CFM with lower boost (less heat) is more efficient and should yield more power. Obviously other factors like timing and in your situation removing the intercooler while adding water injection will alter the outcome.

 

We've been working with Terry from the Super Charger Store who made the first suggestion of taking the 5.0 Mustang Vortech intercooler off and going with the h2o injection. He was talking something about "stacked air"? He said with my 8.6:1 compression (fully forged motor and blower piston's) and running non oxygenated 93 octane wouldn't require the use of methonal unless KR showed it's ugly head. So far, so good. I'm curently in the final tuning process. Thanks for everyone's input.

 

Find a 1200HP rated intercooler and some elbows on EBay and build your own intercooler setup. That's what I did and it works amazing. IAT gets to no more than 25 degress over ambient IAT no matter where the throttle is and that with hot-air intake. I also have a very large surface are heat exchanger up front. Better to go large area and thin than small area and thick when shedding the most heat is desired.





This is the intercooler radiator on the right side:

 

You go richer because your air isn't as dense now. So basically you're getting less air, same fuel.

Don't forget your cam that you added. Remember I talked to you about overlap and superchargers? You can be losing boost based off the cam overlap (and other characteristics) and with a supercharger it's just lost. With a turbo, the turbo adds more boost automatically causing it to work harder and have a little more EGT. I was figuring you'd pick up boost from the i/c removal, and lose some based on the cam, and you'd be even.