supercharger
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supercharger
Has anyone thought about putting a supercharger on a 300 maybe adapting one desonged for a 5.0. I think this would be much easier than desinging and making a turbo setup with similar benifits.
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i was just getting out of a conversation on another board on this very topic.....
to put simply, a lot of sc's for v8's are too big, sounds odd, yes i know, but v8's also rev a whole lot higher than the 300 to make power, thus need the larger charger. the smaller trim centrifugals will work (ick), but i rather like the roots type, an eaton m90 would work wonders on a 300. both would be pretty simple, a centrifugal would just need brackets and a bit of tubing/ the eaton might be a little more involved for a carb motor, but all you need there is an intake box like that on an efi. efi is even simpler, just cut off the tb mounts, report the intake for the sc, drill/tap mounting holes, and route some tubing off the back of the charger so that the tb is 90degrees of the charger.
to put simply, a lot of sc's for v8's are too big, sounds odd, yes i know, but v8's also rev a whole lot higher than the 300 to make power, thus need the larger charger. the smaller trim centrifugals will work (ick), but i rather like the roots type, an eaton m90 would work wonders on a 300. both would be pretty simple, a centrifugal would just need brackets and a bit of tubing/ the eaton might be a little more involved for a carb motor, but all you need there is an intake box like that on an efi. efi is even simpler, just cut off the tb mounts, report the intake for the sc, drill/tap mounting holes, and route some tubing off the back of the charger so that the tb is 90degrees of the charger.
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I think that if you could get a centrifugal with the right flow and psi it would be a great and easy setup on a efi motor really simple and if you could get a used proally pretty cheap. couldn't you just put a larger pulley ontp the blower to make it spin a little slower?
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actually, youd want a smaller pulley, so the blower will spin faster, its not about max boost, its about where max boost is, the higher trims make boost at i think about 30000 blower rpms or something like that, you really want it a lower than that so you actually have boost before you have to shift. but if you get the pulley too small, the blower will over rev when the motor revs, and blow itself to pieces, espically the larger ones, more mass=less usable rpms. basically, its a belt driven turbo, and the same size limits of turbos apply here.
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I would just buy a carbed blower for a 302, fab a intake to wrap around the V-8 ports, put in a cam. ream out the head, get headers, and put brackets where needed for the blower and put on a edelbrock 500 cfm. It would be stickin out of the hood and require a weird belt length, different throttle cable, gas line, etc. but boy that would look cool. I usually think about these crazy ideas when I'm sittin in church, I come up with my best ideas there.
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I think it would be better if it was done to a EFI motor just beacuse it would be easier to tune and more reliable as a daily driver. Not to mention the intake fab could be easier.
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A 6 w/ a blower stickin out of the hood isn't gonna be much of a daily driver anyway, just think of the gas milage. A lotta people in this inline 6 forum (including me) are just out there to find ways to pull enough power and torque out of that 300 so we can say "who needs a V-8," but I myself right now am tryin to stick a 460 in so you could say I'm a little hippicritical, but some day when I get the money and skills I'll have that my old 6 crankin out the hp for no real good reason, but just to say that I did it.
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