Wheel spin and boost ?
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Wheel spin and boost ? How much boost will a car fail to produce if your spining/blazing the tires on a centrifugal blower compared to a dead hook on a set of slicks?
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You'd make the same amount of boost that corresponds with your engine RPM's that you normally would on a centrifugal blower. Nothing changes, it is direct drive from the engine to the blower and it does not rely as much on load.
However on a turbo setup I believe you would lose maybe a pound or two if the tires spin violently and there is not as much load on the motor.
However on a turbo setup I believe you would lose maybe a pound or two if the tires spin violently and there is not as much load on the motor.
They do rely quite a bit on load but spinning the tires is still putting a load on the motor in any situation and shouldn't loose much boost at all if any. JMO though I am not a the know it all guy.
When i took my car to the 1/4mile with the procharger something weird happened the first run... My car is pullied for 8psi. Anyways i got the car to hook up with 1.7 60ft on the first run and when i shifted 2nd gear the clutch was gone, but the weird thing is that when i checked my boost gauge memory i saw 10psi in 1st gear under that load. So i was thinking that even SC'd cars are affected by load, but not as much as turbo cars.
