turbo/supercharging

[George M. Dailey]

I like this idea. Is any one running a 671 0r 471 huffer on the street? What
is it like? Economy? I'm sure it pulls like a freight train from hell.

GMD

At 10:51 AM 3/25/97 -0800, you wrote:
>dzorde wrote:
>> 
>> Ehh, year they look cool OK, but how would you go about fitting a super
>> charger to a chev tpi where the intake is at the front of the engine.  Do
>> you run pipework around and to the front of the engine ?
>> 
>> Also, do you have to run low compression on these as well ?
>> 
>
>I was hoping someone would ask this... hold on to your hat!
>
>Forget the regular tpi stuff. Use an old Hilborn 3 hole blower injector
>minus all of the fuel plumbing as your air door. Then plumb the efi
>injectors right at the port beneath the blower ala regular fuel rail and
>the rest. This runs the blower in a dry, air only mode. Yes, it will get
>hot, but they were originally designed to run air only. You have to make
>the rotor clearances a little more than if you were running fuel through
>it. Also, the odds of a blower explosion are greatly reduced. When it
>get's up to temp, the clearances will be correct. Gives you the old
>gasser look with state of the art EFI.
>
>-j-
>
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