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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

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