how much power?
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Melting Slicks
Joined: Oct 2000
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From: Sweden/Stockholm
how much power?
with a supercharger running "safe boost".
water injection
lt4 hot cam
miniram
headers
lpe 113 alu heads race valves.
This is on a l98 engine with forgde pistons.
Thanks
water injection
lt4 hot cam
miniram
headers
lpe 113 alu heads race valves.
This is on a l98 engine with forgde pistons.
Thanks
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Joined: Feb 2002
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From: Honolulu, HI
Re: how much power? (devilfish)
It depends on your compression ratio. The less comp the more boost you can run, thus giving more HP (You probably already knew that)
Considering you have a unique setup, I would definitely spare no expense in monitoring equipment like a Wideband O2 and especially an EGT which will give you a good idea of your mixture and detonation probabilities.
Considering you have a unique setup, I would definitely spare no expense in monitoring equipment like a Wideband O2 and especially an EGT which will give you a good idea of your mixture and detonation probabilities.
Race Director
Joined: Feb 2002
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From: Honolulu, HI
Re: how much power? (devilfish)
ok.. im not sure about what comp im going to run. You got any experince on using diffrent comps?
Basically it's a balance and is different for all applications. It's a trade off. Since it's a centrifugal S/C we're talking about, you don't benefit from the low RPM torque and that also depends on the impeller and gearing of the s/c. Therefore, it depends how you want to balance the power through the RPM's.
Depending on how stout you build the motor will most likely determine how much power you're going to be able to produce, and that will let you know what psi you can run, which will let you decide what compression ratio you can go with to balance the power band.
It's a trade off.
