Street Supercharging, A Complete Guide To - Roots, Centrifugal, Twin Screw Superchargers

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Once the limits of a naturally aspirated engine are achieved in terms of horsepower and reliability, there is only one more way to maximize horsepower potential: forced induction.

There are two options for realistic forced induction: a turbocharger or a supercharger.

While there is considerable debate over which is better, both offer exponential gains over any standard modification on a normally aspirated engine.

A Complete Guide To Street Supercharging, from industry veteran Pat Ganahl, has been the guidebook for supercharging fans for years. As time and technology march on, updates are required to keep things current, and that's exactly what this new, all-color edition does.

It covers blower basics, blower background and history, a tutorial on how blowers work, information on used superchargers and their practicality, chapters on the different styles of superchargers, such as the traditional Roots-style blower vs. the emerging centrifugal styles, blower installation, how to build your engine to handle the demands of a blower application, and information on tweaking factory blower systems.

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 - Blower Basics: The Air Engine | Street Supercharging | What is a Supercharger? | What a Supercharger Does | Types of Superchargers
  
  
• Chapter 2 - Blower Background: A Short History of Supercharging | Blowers in Europe | Superchargers in the United States | Hot Rod Supercharging | Street Supercharging
  
  
• Chapter 3 - How Blowers Work: Density, Volume and Pressure | The Gas Law | The Problem of Heat | Blower Efficiency | The Air Density Ratio | The Limits of Supercharging | Expansion Ratio and Thermal Efficiency | Let's Get Practical
  
  
• Chapter 4 - Vintage Superchargers: Early McCulloch Blowers | The Frenzel | The S.CO.T./Italmeccanica | Early GMC Kits | The Judson and Other Vane Types | Latham | Magna Charger | B&M Automotive
  
  
• Chapter 5 - The New Centrifugals: Centrifugal Superchargers vs. Turbochargers | Vortech and Paxton Superchargers | ATI ProCharger
  
  • Chapter 6 - Modern Roots Blowers: GMC Blowers | GMC Blower Builders | New Old Roots | The New Roots
  
  
• Chapter 7 - Screw-Type Superchargers: Whipple | Kenne Bell | Vortech-Lysholm
  
  
• Chapter 8 - Building the Street-Supercharged Engine: Block, Crank, Rods | Pistons and Rings | Cylinder Heads | Camshafts and Valve Train | Fuel System | Air Cleaners and Intercoolers | Ignition | Exhaust
  
  
• Source Guide.

About the Author:

Pat Ganahl is the author of several CarTech books, including How to Paint Your Car on a Budget and Custom Painting. He is a life-long hot rodder. Pat lives in Southern California.

Street Supercharging, A Complete Guide To - Roots, Centrifugal, Twin Screw Superchargers