Does adding a supercharger make starting in 1st harder?
#1
Does adding a supercharger make starting in 1st harder?
A friend of mine says if I were to install a blower, it would be easier to stall the car because the engine has to work harder and the blower is parasitic.
Is this true? I thought it would be opposite because of the added torque it gives
Is this true? I thought it would be opposite because of the added torque it gives
#2
Looking at the other replies, I'm not sure if I should reply or not. A supercharger like whipple or kennebell, edlebrock, any positive displacement blower is not causing much of any parasitic lose unless the bypass valve is closed. So unless you are giving it more than 25% throttle, which you won't during normal driving, it will just be like another idler pulley.
If you are making boost, then you don't care how much horsepower the blower is using, because you are making more than enough to spare.
http://www.whipplesuperchargers.com/...sp?ProdID=1233
No, you will not stall the car more. Your friend is misinformed like so many before him/her.
If you are making boost, then you don't care how much horsepower the blower is using, because you are making more than enough to spare.
http://www.whipplesuperchargers.com/...sp?ProdID=1233
No, you will not stall the car more. Your friend is misinformed like so many before him/her.
#3
Looking at the other replies, I'm not sure if I should reply or not. A supercharger like whipple or kennebell, edlebrock, any positive displacement blower is not causing much of any parasitic lose unless the bypass valve is closed. So unless you are giving it more than 25% throttle, which you won't during normal driving, it will just be like another idler pulley.
If you are making boost, then you don't care how much horsepower the blower is using, because you are making more than enough to spare.
http://www.whipplesuperchargers.com/...sp?ProdID=1233
No, you will not stall the car more. Your friend is misinformed like so many before him/her.
If you are making boost, then you don't care how much horsepower the blower is using, because you are making more than enough to spare.
http://www.whipplesuperchargers.com/...sp?ProdID=1233
No, you will not stall the car more. Your friend is misinformed like so many before him/her.
#4
Never heard that one before - and as moosestang said, your friend is gravely mistaken.
What does the friend drive, that may explain his knowledge level?
What does the friend drive, that may explain his knowledge level?
#5
I never think before i post dude. I'm kinda sloooow, just like my car.
Last edited by code3GT; 01-21-2013 at 08:11 PM.
#8
You're friend doesn't know as much as he thinks. Sorry for the confusion. You can see how I could think you meant actually starting the car in first right, lol
Take your own advice.
Take your own advice.
#10
Don't mind me...I don't know anything. I just post to see myself type.
Last edited by code3GT; 01-21-2013 at 08:09 PM.