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- From: rodder@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jon D. Rodder)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Underdrive pullys - Any experiences?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.225017.25666@ra.oc.com>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 22:50:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ra.1992Nov15.225017.25666
- References: <1dr50dINNha4@seven-up.East.Sun.COM> <1992Nov13.161022.1364@orphan.nashvil.ingr.com> <97675@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In article <97675@netnews.upenn.edu> jhaines@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jason Haines) writes:
- >
- > From what I have been told and read, a supercharger 'only'
- >takes about 25 hp to be turned so it would seem unlikely that reducing the
- >other accersories would give you that much hp - I'd agree more with the
- >5-10 hp figures.
-
- To crank out 10psi of boost at 5500 rpm on a 350 cid engine, a roots type
- supercharger draws around 75hp (according to the guy who designed the blower
- I used). But I was using the overdrive crankpulley from hades (11 inch).
-
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