TVS2300 anyone??

[camcojb]

Originally Posted by Bowtieracing

But are they really? Ofcourse unit itself is a huge junk on metal wich heats up but how about building custom - as wide as possible - cooler for the water in front of the car ? I think personally at broblem is usually too small units due "must be bolt" reasons for newer cars.

well, the air temps out of the blower were measured at 200 degrees on the dyno. Due to the dimensions of the normal Chevy V8's there's only so much room for an intercooler, so even if you have ice water you can only get a certain amount of temp drop. Now the Ford mod motors are much wider (and deeper) blocks between the heads without a camshaft in the way, and apparently can get a more efficient intercooler core in them, as the air temps after the intercooler on my Lightning were much better than what they're seeing on these. You are correct, a better heat exchanger to lower water temps through the intercooler will help, but it's still going to be compromised by the size and efficiency of the intercooler core. These blowers work great on the street, and I am in no way bashing them. I still like the idea, but I'm wanting to make 800-850 hp on pump gas and I don't think it'll get me there, except on an ice cold dyno run condition. Now, adding a small shot of nitrous would do it, wouldn't take much at all either, so that's a thought.

As far as my power goal, a 700 hp Maggie or Harrop setup would be a lot of fun to drive if my car was a six speed. But as an auto I've found it takes more power to get the same "feel" of acceleration, the auto trans with fewer gears and bigger drops in rpm at gear changes feels lazier to me as compared to a manual 5 or 6 speed setup. My procharged Camaro felt strong with the 2004R trans, but was a total animal when I swapped to the TKO 5 speed. Same car and HP (over 800 rwhp) but the gear multiplication changed everything.

Jody