How do you hook up a sc like the area 51 one. I can see the blower is piped to the MAF and then down to the air filer, I think. But how does the pipe hook up to the manifold? And what is the other tube hooking the two pipes together other the middle of the picture. Does this sc have an intercooler? How does that get hooked up?
Area 51 Protege Supercharger?
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I actually ran into a guy with a supercharged Mustang Cobra. He told me that for my car, it'd be best to Turbo Charge....actually, he said Turbo is always better than SC because with a SC you don't get boost until about redline, whereas with a turbo you get boost around 3000-4500 rpms. Plus you get more boost off of a turbo than a SC. Is this true?
PA_MP3_Man
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hmm, sc get boost right from idle with a lot less lag than a turbo. They're run by belts not exhaust gasses.
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i'm no expert on super vs. turbo, but someone can always correct me on this. anyway, the way i understood this was, turbos have lag, which can be minimized but will always remain. the engine runs almost like an NA car as rpms rise until the turbo spools and when its about done spooling, the compressor is spinning fast and hard enough to push some serious air so the boost kicks in, and by boost, we mean that nice kick in the pants from that significant power gain....the supercharger, on the other hand does not need to wait for a build-up of exhaust gas pressure, the crankshaft will turn the compressor immediately as rpms rise, so you get virtually no lag in power, but here's the catch, the power is delivered linearly....so you don't get that sudden kick in the pants...you get an engine that behaves like a more powerful NA car....the other catch is that the "boost" is limited. the reason for this i suspect to be because you can't change the gearing for the supercharger as rpms rise, so each engine rpm will have a set compressor rpm, and i'm sure there are other reasons....so you reach peak power gradually, which is going to be less than peak power with a turbo, and also why it feels like you don't get any power until redline with a supercharger vs. a turbo....so long story short, superchargers are more responsive to throttle, have a steady, linear power delivery, but the trade-off is less peak numbers than with a turbo setup...
anarchistchiken
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Hey look, another example of Matty stealing my SN. This thread jump from May of 03 to three days ago. That's the second longest comeback I've ever seen
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What the heck?
anarchistchiken
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Dude, that's not cool. I didn't want his posts deleted. Hmmm.
mazdamp3_18
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the WW mp3 was running a 75 shot on top of the supercharger...
total cost was said to be 15grand for the first one.. charged to WW
total cost was said to be 15grand for the first one.. charged to WW
insanoman2005
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supercharger and nos? wow some1 had a deathwish
mazdamp3_18
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supposidly it was stock internals too... but it was a show car so they dont really care about it running good..
insanoman2005
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tru tru
If you are interested in a supercahrger for the protege just check out the WOMP SC.
http://www.protegeclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36077
or here
http://www.msprotege.com/vbb225/showthread.php?t=78006
http://www.protegeclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36077
or here
http://www.msprotege.com/vbb225/showthread.php?t=78006
insanoman2005
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cool info thx
