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Originally Posted by GRUNTS2K,Mar 11 2008, 09:24 PM
Does the supercharger "run out of air" like a turbo or does it make power all the way to redline?
That is wholly dependent on turbo size. A GT28xxR may run out of efficiency and flow well before redline, but the GT3071R and GT3076R are very well suited to the AP1 and AP2. They should run strong all the way to redline. The GT35R and larger can run strong to even higher boost pressures and higher redlines.
I would comment on the BRP/SOT setup specifically, but I don't know enough about it. Positive displacement superchargers essentially output a fixed amount of air per revolution. As RPM's rise, positive displacement superchargers do increase their output to match the needs of the engine.
On my dyno you can clearly see that the SC made power to redline. The leveling off at the end was due to the operator being a conservative and not wanting to hit the rev limiter. The max SC RPM reached on that run was 17,250. I will be installing a new pulley soon that will bring the max RPM to 18,500. The problem with this SC is that once you exceed 17K you start exceeding the thermal efficiency of the blower - meaning you need to have some good intercooling.
I think that 400 WHP may be possible with an overspun blower, water injection, good tuning system, full exhaust and perhaps some headwork. This is assuming that the PWR intercooler system is sufficently efficient. I am still waiting on mugenrios2k's dynos to see where his numbers are at. At around 400 whp, I would expect the torque to be falling off slowly toward redline.
sorry guys been really busy with the hole find/buy a house thing.
The PWR IC is designed to handle 500hp setup at 920CFM.
but like neeman suggest a good water/meth injection system would help a lot in reaching that power goal.
As I am sure a lot of you already know water/meth injection is good for both cooling the additional timing that can be run.
Putting the water/meth in after the intercooler maximized cooling of the IC and then the water/meth setup can get temps well below ambient due to evaporative cooling.