Quote:
Originally Posted by madmaxx18
Has anyone here had their engine blow up after a supercharger install. Without upping the boost or anything w/everything other than a supercharger installed w/ stock pulley. My old man told me that my engine will blow up with it because his neighbor has a friend that has one and told him the motor can't handle it and would blow up unless I get an aftermarket clutch and flywheel, forged internals, and beef up the rearend. Everything I've read so far says otherwise. I can afford to fix small failures that occur but nothing over $3000 worth. SO I wanna know before I up and get one soon.
|
Ive had a supercharged car and a turbocharged car, both aftermarket boost, I have never, ever heard of an engine blowing up due to a stock clutch or flywheel... ever..
OR the rearend..
HOWEVER!... that doesnt go to say that its a good idea to beef these up. I cant say much for the camaro (yet), but I had my RSX-s, and I boosted it, put 11 PSI, it was pushing 330 to the wheels. (FWD tho), there wasnt a requirement to beef anything else up, but after time, 330+hp through a stock clutch would burn it out, and it did. I put in a new one, as well as a new flywheel, it just made sense to throw a flywheel in when I had the tranny out.
When you start to boost cars, or push them to there limits, you need to think about more than just the power, you need to think about how the rest of the car can handle it.
I dont know from personal experience, but I think I saw that you can push the camaros to around 660+ hp before you need to worry about upgrading anything else, first to go would be the axle, and possibly the clutch.