ls1 with powerdyne
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ls1 with powerdyne
so i just bought an ls1 and it has a powerdyne supercharger, if i understand this correctly its alcohol injected.. my lt1 has a procharger on it which is intercooled. anyone have an input on the powerdyne, im not sure if im going to keep it on there, sell it , or if maybe find a trade. it did decent numbers.. 9psi stock engine 481 rwhp. i mean what would you guys do. keep it on ? idk if i like the thought of refilling the liquid everytime its low and not knowing when its low when im gettting on it.
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Well you can look at it this way, powerdyne went out of business. If it works use it. Theres nothing wrong with using water/meth for cooling boost. If theres a way you can route piping to an air to air intercooler maybe you might want to consider that. Or just try and sell it all together.
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Well tried to contact them, I tried and all I got was some voicemail system saying to leave a message with your name and question and someone would return my call, ya that never happened so I started asking around and was told that they were going under.
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I think somebody bought them out. You can still get in touch with them I'm told. I put 42K miles on my old 93 Indy Pace Car with the Powerdyne and never had any problems with it. But 9 psi is pushing it with any supercharger on a stock motor.
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so i just bought an ls1 and it has a powerdyne supercharger, if i understand this correctly its alcohol injected.. my lt1 has a procharger on it which is intercooled. anyone have an input on the powerdyne, im not sure if im going to keep it on there, sell it , or if maybe find a trade. it did decent numbers.. 9psi stock engine 481 rwhp. i mean what would you guys do. keep it on ? idk if i like the thought of refilling the liquid everytime its low and not knowing when its low when im gettting on it.
Your alcohol/H20 injection is a poor man's intercooler. Change the pulley, drop the boost down to 6# and keep the RPM below 6,000 or so and this unit should give you many miles of quiet use.
If you really like the performance of a blown LS1, then you probably should be looking at other options that are designed to pump out 10-15# or more and are intercooled. ATI and Vortech come to mind.
Sale price on e-bay for PowerDynes ranges from $450 to, maybe, $1,000 depending upon both the condition and the completeness of the kit. By comparison, both ATI and Vortech [depending upon the head unit] go for around $2,000 -2500 used on EBay.
Finally, I think that "PowerDyne" has been sold and that the new company is selling PowerDyne's last model [which dumped the belt drive and went with a direct gear drive].
If you decide to sell the PowerDyne, send me a PM.
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so i just bought an ls1 and it has a powerdyne supercharger, if i understand this correctly its alcohol injected.. my lt1 has a procharger on it which is intercooled. anyone have an input on the powerdyne, im not sure if im going to keep it on there, sell it , or if maybe find a trade. it did decent numbers.. 9psi stock engine 481 rwhp. i mean what would you guys do. keep it on ? idk if i like the thought of refilling the liquid everytime its low and not knowing when its low when im gettting on it.
Finally, if you are going to sell it: better do it while the internal kevlar belt is still in one piece.
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There is plenty of places to rebuild them so why get rid of them. If the belt breaks atleast it dont puke in your motor like a vortech will if a gear breaks or a bearing go's. keep the boost low and dont over rev the blower and you will be fine.