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BLOWN 3000 HEALEY ?

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CASCADEWILLY

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ALRIGHT , I HAVE TO ASK.......HAS ANYONE EVER PUT A MECHANICAL SUPERCHARGER/BLOWER ON A 3000 ENGINE BEFORE. I HEARD OF A PAXTON BEING ADAPTED. I HAVE 34 YEARS INVESTED IN MY CAR AND NOT ALL PLEASENT. LETS HEAR FROM YOU !!!!!!!
 
I recently put a Vortech SC on my black car (350 bhp)

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I'm currently in the process of putting this twin-screw unit on a customer's 99 M Coupe (366 rwhp)

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And last summer I did a Stage Two turbocharger installation on this M Coupe from Minnesota (378 rwhp)

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I would think the Healey engine would lend itself well to forced induction, though you'd have to fabricate everything up yourself. I would certainly pick something like the Haltech or DIS Tec III for stand-alone engine management (programmable fuel injection and ignition).
 
I had a 62 Vette with a 388 and a 671 blower with a huge aluminum radiator and had a really hard time keeping it cool. I can imagine how hard it would be keeping a Healey cool. What about tires? My car had a narrowed rear end and 14 inch street tires and they would light up at 50 mph when the blower came in. If I wanted that I would look into putting it on the bottle it would be a much simpler installation and would fit under the hood much better.
 
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Are you talking about a blower or supercharger BIG difference. Paxton is a supercharger.

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Always thought a blower was just a short name for a supercharger. What is the difference?

Bruce
 
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Where I come from a blower is a type of supercharger.

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Exactly what I think. There are different types of superchargers but they all are blowers versus turbochargers.
 
A blower is a mechanically driven device usually a roots type. It has a pair of helical vanes inside a housing that is driven by a belt off the crankshaft. These are the big things you see on top of the top fuel drag cars. A turbocharger is a small turbine type device that is driven by exhaust gasses passing through the small turbine vanes driving another small turbine that forces air into the engine. The big difference is in the way they are driven.
 
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Are you talking about a blower or supercharger BIG difference. Paxton is a supercharger.

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I know well the difference between supercharger and turbocharger. But your original statement was as above. That is what I don't understand.

Bruce
 
I think we are saying the same only with different wording we always called anything with a belt a blower and everything else a supercharger/turbocharger. I fit were me I would still go with the NO2 unless you lived at a high altitude and wanted to normalize the engine back to S/L pressure
 
I think a supercharger and a blower are the same thing in that they are both driven with a mechanical (i.e. not gas coupled) linkage to the engine. It may be belt or gear driven. We all know a turbocharger is a gas coupled device run by exhaust gasses. I think that automotive people tend to be familiar with the belt driven superchargers commonly called blowers, and aviation people (especially old folks like me who have some round motor experience)are more familiar with the gear driven versions we all call superchargers. Either way, they don't do you much good unless you are are beyond what would normally be full manifold pressure. Jack rabbit starts and driving 100 mph plus on the freeway are not smart ways to drive unless you are alone on the road. None of these devices will do you much good for normal driving (in a big Healey)in mho. They are common because it is a way to get more power from smaller, lighter engines, at the expense of higher temps and pressures (and fuel). Don't tell me that they improve fuel economy or anything like that because there is no free lunch in physics. What they do is allow trucks pulling trailers to get on to the freeway in a reasonable lenght of time and distance, and allow autmombiles with small displacement engines, to accelerate quickly and run at higher speed over a given distance. On the track they are great and if you have a fuel efficient car that lacks a safe margin of acceleration (not a big Healey trait) then they have their place. Oh, oh, I can see the worms getting out of the can...

Jon
 
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I think we are saying the same only with different wording we always called anything with a belt a blower and everything else a supercharger/turbocharger.

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Just different areas of the world I guess. I call anything that is not a turbocharger, a supercharger or blower, one in the same.

Bruce
 
I AGREE, A BLOWER / SUPERCHARGER ARE TERMS USED TO DESCRIBE FORCED INDUCTION SYSTEMS "NOT" DRIVEN BY EXHASUT GASSES. A TURBO DEVELOPES LOTS OF HEAT AND THAT WAS NOT MY INTENTION. IF I WANT EXCESS ENGINE HEAT I CAN JUST GO FOR A DRIVE IN THE CAR. THEY ARE HEAT TRAPS AS IT IS. I JUST WONDERED IF ANYONE HAS HAD SUCCESS USING A SUPERCHARGER SUCH AS A PAXTON ON A BIG HEALEY. THEY MAKE THEM FOR SPRITES. I DIDNT INTEND TO GET ANYBODY'S PANTIES IN A KNOT.
 
As a favor to readers, it is much easier reading with the caps lock turned off. Juts a friendly suggestion.

Part of the problem with communications such as here and email is that one can not easily put any expression (even with icons) in such writings and therefore a great deal of misunderstanding can easily be generated for no reason whatsoever.

No one, or at least not me, was upset about any of this. I was just trying to understand how superchargers and turbos are defined by different people in different areas. Just educating myself, not arguing. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
 
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The turbocharger is an exhaust gas driven turbine where the supercharger is belt driven. I, for one, have never heard the term "blower" applied to anything but a supercharger....

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Same with me. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif

Bruce
 
Whatever name used, there's nothing like the sound of the whine of a 6-71 fed by 2 Holleys on top of a V-8, driven by a two inch belt. My first and only sat in my hand built 23-T hot rod. I'll probably never do that again, but wouldn't trade the experience cheaply. Great memories accompany our mechanical pastimes.
 
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