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Old 05-22-2020, 02:28 AM
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Originally Posted by rwd4evr View Post
If you aren't familiar these superchargers are the ones found on the 3.8 liter gm 3800 series v6 in tons of Pontiac Buick and olds cars from 92-2007. 50 bucks or so at junkyards.

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I sure did not know they were on more common cars.

Mechanically driven means that the Supercharger also uses up some of the engine power.

I did an image.google.com search for 3.8 liter gm 3800 series v6 supercharger and it is bulky; takes up a lot of space. That means installation is not going to be easy.

It would be better of it was electrically driven and you could simply install a higher amperage alternator. That would simplify the installation.

I don't know how viable they are but I like 7 years ago I saw what was a Turbocharger Compressor Housing and bearing housing but where the Exhaust end would have bin had an electric motor on it.
The problem there is you would need a DC motor capable of the rpms needed to turn the Turbo compressor wheel fast enough.
If you could do that with the T3 the installation would not be so hard. Just a matter of fabricating some Exhaust between the Exhaust manifold and the down pipe.
You would need to fabricate of modify the existing turbine shaft

It also could be that a turbo compressor end with a larger Compressor wheel would not need to be turned as fast making the motor issue easier.

Go to https://images.google.com/ and search: electric supercharger; and see the goodies.
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