Torque storm super charger

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doopdoop67

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Has anybody here ever built a motor for a super charger? The pro charger,torque storm, or paxton. I recently saw a Paxton super charger kit and thought it was cool. It was on Craigslist near me for $1800 still in the box. I believe my current motor has too much compression for boost (10:1) but might look into building one down the road and putting it in a sweptline D100 if it would fit. This kit seems reasonable
TorqStorm Small Block MOPAR Supercharger Kits I have a 318 sitting on a stand maybe that would be a good motor for it. Stock bottom end stock heads. I know I’d need heads for it but what about the bottom end?
 
You could run it on that engine and compression, just make sure to get the tune right and run lower boost if you're not going all out for racing. Then again, if you were you would probably be looking at a different kit. Some of those kits only produce 5-7 psi on the stock configuration. I'd be more worried about the ring end gap being too tight first, so you may want to open that up some.
 
I like the torque storm blower, its well made billet, usa made stuff. Im just disappointed in its limited airflow and boost capacity. It seems the right product for a /6, 273 or 318, but for much more motor than that they recommend two blowers. All that means is your blower is too small.
If i were going to build a blower motor, the blower or turbo better be able to put out 15lbs boost on my engine size, or its not worth doing, imho.
I have seen a few of the paxton/vortecs with the aircleaner-looking air hat. I was not impressed with the performance i saw. I guess it would depend a great deal on how much motor underneath, and how well tuned (and, of course, how much boost/drive speed).
 
If you have a really good induction and exhaust system, the SC could deliver only 5psi and way way out perform a stock engine at double the boost.

Do your home work.

You do not need a lot of boost (but more the merry!) to make really good power. A well designed high flowing system coupled with a health cam will reduce the amount of psi seen at the gauge vs a stock engines restrictive set up.
 
I think the first step is figuring out what you want to build. How much hp is your goal? Bolting 5 psi onto a stock 318 will be pretty disappointing. I think a very loose generalization is 15 psi will double the n/a power output. So if you make 250 hp n/a add 15 psi you get 500 hp assuming tuning is worked out , heads can flow that much etc etc. So a 250 hp 318 with 5psi may only put out an extra 80hp. A 330 hp Supercharged 318 would be pretty disappointing given the expense and work involved. Keep researching...
 
They just ran the torquestorm on a slant six on enginemasters. Made over 300hp before it blew a head gasket
 
They just ran the torquestorm on a slant six on enginemasters. Made over 300hp before it blew a head gasket

215 hp naturally aspirated 7.5 psi it made 308 hp. Math is pretty close. 50% of 15 psi converts to almost 50% more power from n/a level. Diminishing returns at a certain point of course.
 
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