Supercharge my motor

Supercharged wrote:

Jarlaxle wrote:

OhhWell wrote:

427435 wrote:

Supercharged wrote:

Nomadac wrote:
Engines with Superchargers run hotter than normal carberated or fuel injection. I had a 55 Chevy with a 427 c.i. BB with a Weiand 671 blower that dyno'd at 721 HP. When running the exhaust headers would get very hot. Header coatings would not do blower motors as the coatings would melt. RV motors will run hotter when climbing long hills and high outside temps. so having a Supercharger will just cause more heat problems when climbing hills, etc. Besides engines have to be setup to run with blowers. IMO

Get over the heat thing, with the intercooler that will never happen with you pulling a RV. I now have 100,000 miles on my Chev 5.3 with supercharger, every shade tree machinc on here said it wouldn't last 20,000 miles. It added about 100 hp. Stumps on the hemi fast.
It does cost $7000 thousand or so, so if your card is at the limit like most I know on hear better pass on that.

I beg to differ on the cooling thing. The intercooler only farther reduces air flow (and increases air temp) that the radiator sees. You can get along with a supercharged car because you can't use full power very long (like an air-cooled motorcycle). In an MH, you could be at full power for several minutes climbing a long hill-----------that will cause a very noticeable increase in your engine temp.

Who puts an intercooler in front of a radiator? Especially on a MH with all of that frontal area to cut into.

Just about everyone...Ford, Dodge, Freightliner, International, Kenworth, Peterbilt, Volvo-White, Hino, etc.

And Joe Gibbs installed at Chev. dealers like mine.

I had no idea they did that. I guess the sum of my limited intercooler experience is from fast little cars not HD Trucks.

Any idea why on earth they would do that? It just seems wrong to throw more hot air through that channel if it could be avoided.