hazestang

I am a little lost with the whole concept of supercharger, CAI, turbo, and all that mumbo jumbo. If the whole idea is to get forced cold air into the engine, why can't you just run a tube from the a/c unit right into the throttle body, or where ever it needs to go? Does the a/c tax the engine that much that it wouldn't be worth the gain. I know I need to take a mechanics class, I am really ignorant when it comes the the inner workings of the engine.

noir

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/supercharger2.htm There is a lot of other articles on that site that would be very beneficial for you to read and learn. Hope it helps. BTW in a nutshell, superchargers are a compressor, which means that air it takes in is pressurized. Like the air conditioner, a supercharger is powered by the accessory belt, but it's a lot different.

Trill Gear Head

lol, using the a/c to cool air. The problem with that is it doesn't cool enough air quick enough, thats what we put intercoolers on s/c's or t/c's. the point of a CAI is to grab air from the fender which is the outside air come through wich is cooler obvously b/c your moving. The point of S/C's and T/C is to compress air and cram as much of it into the engine as possible, and you port it through an intercooler to cool it down b/c the force of the prepellar and the air creates friction(which in turn creates heat). Thats why you run that hot air through a intercooler.

Not bad for a 17 year gear head and i never took a mechanics class although i want too.

Trill Gear Head

damn you noir you post ***** lol. I wanted to respond first lol.

noir

lol, Trill.

sonicblue05

lol i love it when peoplewan to just rig stuff up and make it work.

i strapped a leafblower to the intake of a go kart once.........it got reallyhigh in the rpms realfast then just died. we tried everythingand it just didnt work. too much air(212mph) LMAO ti wasfun though

Trill Gear Head

I can't help it; I guess i have something to prove b/c i'm only 17 and I just felt like showing what i knew. Off the top of my head that is.

sonicblue05

i do the same thing lol. 17 also

chrisc

hmm....i need to go look for that thread you posted a week or two ago

it was called something like "am i post *****?" =P i am just messing

rygenstormlocke

This may also help too:

http://american-speed.com/collective...isplay.php?f=7

There are 4 good sticky threads on this subject via the link above.