tuning?
Senior Member
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 1,913
From: Harleysville, PA
RE: tuning?
I thought you said you read the stickies?
The supercharger IS the intake manifold.
Do yourself a favor and just drive your car and keep reading.
How it works - Superchargers are crank driven. The crank turns, which turns a belt, which turns a pulley attached to the nose of the supercharger, which rotates two rotors inside of the casing forcing air into an intake plenum and creating what we call "boost." Boost is just about instant in a supercharger, the intake plenum is fairly small in volume so it doesn't take long to pressurize and the rotors are turned directly by the crank. This also means that it takes torque to make power, the supercharger is extra load upon the engine.
Do yourself a favor and just drive your car and keep reading.
