Piston rings fried - stillen supercharger

TBatt

LMAO I've been following his saga. The man has patience!

I agree with your statements in that the STOCK Stillen SC kit is not only safe but pretty powerful too. That is the direction I am going in June.

The OP had some bad stuff happen because of a used kit that was obviously not compatible with all of the upgrades. The injectors were not suited for the increased fuel flow requirement.

What some fail to realize is that turbocharging is "free" horsepower while a supercharger gets its power from the engine. So, when looking at WHP from a turbo and crunching the numbers on what the crankshaft horsepower is will be pretty accurate. Not true with a SC. The engine is not only producing the WHP that the dyno is reporting but the additional crankshaft power needed to power the SC. I have not run the numbers but I think that is around 60 crankshaft HP to drive the SC @ 8 PSI. If you dyno-ed a turbo setup and got 400WHP the engine is producing around 500 crankshaft HP. A SC setup that produces 400WHP will require the engine to produce +560 crankshaft HP. Make sense? That additional 60 HP will need extra fuel and air.

My 2 cents.

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