[Sa-WaitNoMustang900Turbo]

Originally Posted by CyberPrey While intercooling (the cooling of air AFTER the forced induction unit and BEFORE it goes into the motor) is optional on some Superchargers, it is almost a requirement with turbochargers due to the fact that a turbocharger unit gets much hotter and hot air is not as effective at building horsepower.

that is a misconception, ranking in heat produced by the compression it goes(coolest to hottest) centri s/c, t/c, twin screw s/c, and by far the hottest, roots s/c. centri s/c arent that much cooler than t/c though, any compression heats stuff up quite a bit. t/c are more often intercooled becaose of the ease in making an efficcient IC for them. Many s/c arent IC'ed because of the low boost normally being run by them, but all of the good ones for petrol engines usually are, it being IC'ed is just far less noticable many a time than the obvious FMA-AIC like on many turbo or centri s/c set ups

for example my SAAB has no IC(most models of the time do, just not the american) and it runs about 9-12.5 peak boost just fine, many older models did have WI though. IC became standard on all SAABs when the 4v head was introduced in the 85 model year(the head also yeilded 9:1 compression with the same level of boost though)

[3.8Coastie]

thanks for all the corrections with my mistakes.... sometime i will compile it all with the corrections and make a new post with it... so if anyone notices anything else go ahead and add... there will be a corrected one soon!

[md03cobra]

I just pulled my stock 4.6L and put in a 5.1 stroker with the Whipple 3.4. I'm wondering if I should tune it with nitrous or not.

[94v6blkndred]

damn witchdoctor...you just brought this thread up from the dead....