supercharger on 350 4x4

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Mad Dog is that directed to me? Cause I do understand all that you say here. Just not sure.

And bang on, a 2 stroke will not start with out a blower. It will run (not very well) but will not start. With the ports in the liner, the piston does not even come close to creating enough vaccume to draw in enough air at startup.

not directly, that was n response 2 Big Al

There are supercharged diesels:

GMC 671 superchargers originally came from diesel applications, onto funny car and dragsters. but they weren't street diesels, they were heavy equipment diesels: i.e. Euclid dump trucks, for mining and large earth moving projects. heavy drag line shovels and front end loaders.

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they went to belt driven superchargers:

Because of the durability issues associated with turbos. can you remember how many times friends had to get turbos replaced under warranty?

Can you remember how many turbos you replaced in the field?

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It wouldn't be feasible!

The HP created would take about 85% to drive it.

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So much cool stuff to read about, so little time!!!

I confer, turbos r always going out on semi tractors

Please 'splain more. You're saying.......... say the blower adds 100 hp, it'll take 85hp to turn it. I don't think so.

Try a 6 71 GMC and watch what happens!

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I'm don't follow. I've seen lots of detroits run including 6-71's, on our water dyno.

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So that's why all the AA/FD cars have belt driven GMC type blowers. So they can't make much horsepower.

Got it.

Al

That's just it:

Big, gigantic tractor diesels. Not a class C Cummins, a power stroke or a Chevrolet 6.5.

Try that with a small displacement motor, watch what happens.

The B&M and other blowers available for making factory cars perform better, have less boost and are internally overdriven.

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They run on a totally different principal:

If you pitted with them for 7 or 8 years, and were allowed to stand at the tree at Englishtown every week for those years.You'd know what you're talking about too.

They run 13 to 1 compression in those dragsters and funny cars, and the motors without blowers make close to 3,000 horsepower, for a grand total of about 5,000 with the blower. If they were running gasoline, they wouldn't touch the 1,000 HP mark.

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King, I'm not trying to disrespect you at all, but detroit blowers are internally overdriven, from 1.7 to 2.6 depending on the original application, N/A or turbocharged etc. And a 6-71 motor is only 426CID (71CI per hole X 6 holes) Not at all a big gigantic beast you're picturing. Sounds kinda perfect for a 454-500CI Chevy big block to me or SBC for that matter. I also never said I was burning gasoline.

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My mistake then!

Sorry!

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I still want to know what you were leading to, maybe it's something I've never thought about. Or don't know. I'm trying to gather as much info as possible from different sources.

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A truck/tractor diesel:

Has about a 5 or more inch bore, and a long stroke, the smaller passenger truck diesels have no more than a 4.5" bore, and a somewhat shorter stroke.

The heads on the commercial diesels have close to 2.75 inch valves, the passenger diesels maybe 2.2 inch. totally different flow characteristics, and boost pressure to compression ratio.

On a passenger diesel, you'd need in the neighbor hood of 15 psi boost, to start to see a really noticeable increase in power.

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