one, two, three, four!
Rev up your engines!
It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel
Today I'm going to talk about why superchargers are the way to go for
power in your car, if you're the type of person who thinks it's better to burn
out than fade away, well listen to this video about superchargers, turbochargers and
superchargers both compress air, but they do it differently, as you can see on
the turbocharger, it uses exhaust gas to spin a turbine which then compresses air,
sends it to a cooler, and then into the intake manifold to boost the engine,
where superchargers use a belt that runs off the engine to spin and then compress
air, and throw it inside the engine, it's more direct, now I like superchargers for
power, and I know people are saying, Scotty but most of the modern cars come
with turbochargers why, well in the United States that's mainly because of
federal law, there's so much pressure on the manufacturers to make cars with
better gas mileage, and on a dynamometer, a turbocharged car is going to get
better fuel ratings, so of course that's what they're going to build, but when it
comes to adding power to your car, I like superchargers for a lot of reasons, they
cost less to install, they're easier to install, there are less complex, and my
favorite reason is, they have more fast direct power, you step on the gas they go
there's no lag, it's run off the belt, it's spinning all the time it doesn't
have to wait for the turbo to spool up with exhaust gas to get going really
fast, and anyway I'm old-fashioned, to me,
simpler is better, and a supercharger is simpler, you don't have to infringe on the
exhaust system as much, typically a supercharger is easier to install, also
your control of the boost if you're on a throttle you have boost, if you're off the
throttle you don't have boost, and they're fairly simple to install,
they're all belt driven or most of them are belt driven, there's many, many
different aftermarket applications to where you could basically put a
supercharger on just near anything, now you can supercharge a lot more
things than cars and trucks, check this out, from a UTV, ATV, all the way down to a
personal watercraft, you can do jeeps, you can even do these carts if you want, as
you can see here, it's all belt driven, just bolts on,
and if you want to talk about power, the engine would be 500 horsepower,
but with the supercharger on it, it puts out 1,200 horsepower, an engine is
basically an air pump, and what you're doing is you're increasing the amount of
air that the engine can pump with a supercharger, and of course if you want
it done right, you need the Pros to do the final tuning for it on a Dyno,
here we have a Mustang dyno, this is what we utilize to tune the vehicles that we
work on here, so you want a supercharged one in your cars,
there's nothing that beats a pro with years of experience to help you out,
usually when we have somebody come in here, my main thing is to talk to them
about what their power goals are, and what the setup is and I try to sell them
a supercharger that down the road will fit any needs they might have, because
you might have somebody come in here that you know the only one make 600
horsepower right then, but then they're like, well I might do a motor later on so
we kind of try, I I don't like spending people's money twice, because the last
thing you want to do is put a gigantic supercharger on your car and find out
it's going to blow your engine because it can't take it, these pros know what
they're talking about, usually like the two main kits that I talk to people
about, is either pro chargers or Whipple's, we can even do Magnuson
superchargers, and you have different kinds too, from you know your side mount,
to your top mount superchargers, so there's a bunch of different options on them,
so they've been doing this stuff for years, they know which ones are good,
which ones are bad, and which ones are kind of in between, now where do these
things come from, they're all United States made superchargers, two of these
companies are from California, Pro chargers from Kansas, vortex from
California, so they're all american-made stuff, and these guys are just a phone
call away, they're willing to talk and explain all kinds of stuff, how the
systems work, what it costs, so if you're thinking about putting some serious
power into your car, you might think about super charging, and it remember you if you've got
any questions just visit Scotty Kilmer channel,
so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to
ring that Bell!