Procharger vs Edlebrock superchargers
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Wow, I have not been on the site for quite a while. Came on today to find some information about the system I am using. Good to see some names I recognize from years ago. Hi ONELOWF.
Anyway back to the subject. My first blower was a Powerdyne with a 9lb pulley and aftercooler. I now have an Allen kit (no longer in business) with an M-90 Eaton roots style blower and aftercooler. The choice really does get down to what you want to do. The Powerdyne with all the mods and aftercooler was fast from light to light with torque building gradually. My main concern at the time was towing because I had a small 5th wheel camper. When towing any distance I would have to keep it in the upper RPM range to get any power. That caused constant rooting for gears by the transmission and very poor gas mileage.
Since the roots blower install, when I hit the gas it goes to 9lbs even before my eyes get to the boost gauge. The *****-on-torque is great and I think much more suited to what trucks are and do.
The centrifugal got better gas mileage but no truck the size of ours gets good gas mileage.
If you need down and dirty grunt power from the go then roots is the way to go.
If you want light to light with a little better gas mileage and probably a less expensive kit then the centrifugal will work as long as it is intercooled.
I probably didn’t help.
Anyway back to the subject. My first blower was a Powerdyne with a 9lb pulley and aftercooler. I now have an Allen kit (no longer in business) with an M-90 Eaton roots style blower and aftercooler. The choice really does get down to what you want to do. The Powerdyne with all the mods and aftercooler was fast from light to light with torque building gradually. My main concern at the time was towing because I had a small 5th wheel camper. When towing any distance I would have to keep it in the upper RPM range to get any power. That caused constant rooting for gears by the transmission and very poor gas mileage.
Since the roots blower install, when I hit the gas it goes to 9lbs even before my eyes get to the boost gauge. The *****-on-torque is great and I think much more suited to what trucks are and do.
The centrifugal got better gas mileage but no truck the size of ours gets good gas mileage.
If you need down and dirty grunt power from the go then roots is the way to go.
If you want light to light with a little better gas mileage and probably a less expensive kit then the centrifugal will work as long as it is intercooled.
I probably didn’t help.
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Wow, I have not been on the site for quite a while. Came on today to find some information about the system I am using. Good to see some names I recognize from years ago. Hi ONELOWF.
Anyway back to the subject. My first blower was a Powerdyne with a 9lb pulley and aftercooler. I now have an Allen kit (no longer in business) with an M-90 Eaton roots style blower and aftercooler. The choice really does get down to what you want to do. The Powerdyne with all the mods and aftercooler was fast from light to light with torque building gradually. My main concern at the time was towing because I had a small 5th wheel camper. When towing any distance I would have to keep it in the upper RPM range to get any power. That caused constant rooting for gears by the transmission and very poor gas mileage.
Since the roots blower install, when I hit the gas it goes to 9lbs even before my eyes get to the boost gauge. The *****-on-torque is great and I think much more suited to what trucks are and do.
The centrifugal got better gas mileage but no truck the size of ours gets good gas mileage.
If you need down and dirty grunt power from the go then roots is the way to go.
If you want light to light with a little better gas mileage and probably a less expensive kit then the centrifugal will work as long as it is intercooled.
I probably didn’t help.
Anyway back to the subject. My first blower was a Powerdyne with a 9lb pulley and aftercooler. I now have an Allen kit (no longer in business) with an M-90 Eaton roots style blower and aftercooler. The choice really does get down to what you want to do. The Powerdyne with all the mods and aftercooler was fast from light to light with torque building gradually. My main concern at the time was towing because I had a small 5th wheel camper. When towing any distance I would have to keep it in the upper RPM range to get any power. That caused constant rooting for gears by the transmission and very poor gas mileage.
Since the roots blower install, when I hit the gas it goes to 9lbs even before my eyes get to the boost gauge. The *****-on-torque is great and I think much more suited to what trucks are and do.
The centrifugal got better gas mileage but no truck the size of ours gets good gas mileage.
If you need down and dirty grunt power from the go then roots is the way to go.
If you want light to light with a little better gas mileage and probably a less expensive kit then the centrifugal will work as long as it is intercooled.
I probably didn’t help.
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I'm glad I could help, just keep this in mind
Roots is instant power, centrifugal slower building power.
A tune will decrease the lag time but there is not very much increased low end torque in the cent.
Have fun...
This truck seems to have way too much lag for my taste. I am coming from a f250 w/ roughly 560 hp and this truck seems like a dog
but I am scared of the lagging low end power
Have fun...