Switchable Supercharger?

[The Deuce]

Originally posted by XTheOwl
No one ever tried to do this?

Could you rig up the s/c pulley like the airconditioning compressor, where it can be turned on and off?

Then have two air intakes, one for the supercharger and one for normal asperation, with a gate to switch between the two?

Assuming you could do this, would there be tuning issues to deal with still?

Thanks,

xto

You would need to have a fully adjustable, tunable computer, that you could mess with fuel pressure et. al. on the fly.

Not to mention you would need two MAF's, filters, all that tubing...

You've never seen the inside of a blower, have you? If there was a way to clutch them and make it work, somebody would have done it years ago.

That's why they came up with turbos, they're blowers that only work under load.