Superchargers And Your Car
By David C. Atkin, Tue Dec 6th
There's no doubt that a supercharger will improve theperformance of your car greatly, on a V8 it's usually good for150 to 200 HP with no problem, it's one of the single bestupgrades you can do, not to mention the HP improvement, it justlooks mean, it looks like it will chew you up and spit you out.
Superchargers have been used for years to increase theperformance of muscle cars and hot rods, it's not like aturbocharger, no lag, the power is there when you need it, andthat's a big plus in my book, the supercharger is a wicked toolto beat the competition, it usually works in your favor.
A supercharger will increase the power of you engine throughit's entire power range, a supercharger is in essence just alarge compressor that sits on top or to the side of your engine,it basically takes the air going in to your engine andcompresses it and then shoves it in to the engine.
It's main job is to increase the air & fuel volumetricefficiency of your engine, the more air and fuel that you havecoming in to the engine, the more power it will make, so what asupercharger does is it works to fill the cylinders up as muchas possible with air and fuel.
The one huge draw back to a supercharger is the fact that
