Stillen Supercharger estimates???

Buddy Revell · 09-05-2009, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by B1nks

I'm not super familiar with superchargers but I am slightly familiar and I've seen people asking for twin root and stuff but wouldn't a centrifugal work better for higher numbers and still getting that immediate response ?

HowStuffWorks "Supercharger Basics"

B1nks · 09-05-2009, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Buddy Revell

HowStuffWorks "Supercharger Basics"

No offense but that wasn't a great link, not bad, but not great. I understand how they work, I just don't have a lot of experience with them and don't understand why people would want roots(which i was under the impression sucked) compared to a centrifugal.

Mike · 09-05-2009, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by B1nks

No offense but that wasn't a great link, not bad, but not great. I understand how they work, I just don't have a lot of experience with them and don't understand why people would want roots(which i was under the impression sucked) compared to a centrifugal.

roots makes low end torque, where a centrifugal is like a turbo and needs to spool up, so it makes its power in the upper rev band.

I've installed and driven both types on 350z, and I preferred my roots to the centrifugal. On my C6, I went with centrifugal, which I preferred over the Callaway roots that I drove at a corvette school. The corvette already has a lot of low end torque though.

1slow370 · 09-05-2009, 09:09 PM

if you go roots the best one on the market right now is the TVS eaton unit, but why bother with roots or centrifugal when you can get a whipple twinscrew that has the low end of the roots and the high end of the centrifugal, yet requires less effort to turn and provides cooler air charge temperatures?

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1slow370 A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: In the D Posts: 3,733 Drives: v8 74 260z ;) Rep Power: 7253	if you go roots the best one on the market right now is the TVS eaton unit, but why bother with roots or centrifugal when you can get a whipple twinscrew that has the low end of the roots and the high end of the centrifugal, yet requires less effort to turn and provides cooler air charge temperatures?