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As the horsepower numbers and the performances on the track illustrate, ProCharger’s centrifugal superchargers — and particular the large and in-charge F3 series of blowers — are capable of delivering an ample supply of air into a race engine. But there are always incremental advancements to be made, and that’s particularly the case in how clean and direct the air is that’s being force-fed into the blower inlet. Because at speed, not only is the combustion of the engine and the blower itself sucking the air in, but it’s being forced in wherever the inlet happens to be (often positioned in the nose of the car).
We’ve engineered it to be exactly to spec for that supercharger, to be the correct contour, and the correct shape and distance from the impeller to optimize airflow into the blower. – Sergio Shifman
“We’ve engineered it to be exactly to spec for that supercharger, to be the correct contour, and the correct shape and distance from the impeller to optimize airflow into the blower,” said ProCharger’s Sergio Shifman. “With no restriction in, we can limit the turbulence. Sometimes there can be turbulence of the forward air coming off of a bumper or something like that. These inlets are sometimes a little large to fit some cars, but they’re definitely built to best practice to get as much performance and as much boost into the motor as possible.”
The ProCharger engineering team has done flow testing on test stands at their facility, an followed it up with real world testing on NMRA and NMCA Street Outlaw racer Phil Hines, who rocked the record books with the inlet on his Mustang at the NMRA World Finals in October. According to Shifman, Hines picked up nearly three pounds (2.9 to be exact) of boost with the inlet.
ProCharger will soon be catering the inlet design to the entire race series of superchargers, including F-3, F-2 and F-1 series. The inlets are fully CNC machined for strength, and are anodized in black and etched with the ProCharger logo.
The inlets are in final development now before going into full production in 2015. You can keep tabs with the launch of the product to the pubic by visiting procharger.com.
