[Shotimes] Fw: Roots blower on SHO!!

[Mike Murphy]

No offense taken as I am a centrifugal guy.

Roots are great for torque.  My SS supercharged car does build boost quickly 
and can easily spin the tires very quickly with drag radials and a quaife.  
I can imagine what a roots will do when trying to hook up at any kind of 
hard initial throttle from a dead stop.   Our Taurus' front suspensions were 
never meant to handle big power. The control arms/strut rods are not beefy.  
  Lauching a boosted SHO/quaife properly takes a considerable amount of 
skill (which I still suck at.)

While we are weak at dead stop drag racing...from a roll my car is flat out 
fun plus I am not advertising to police or others that I have anything other 
than a plain ol' Taurus.

Murph


From: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>
To: <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Fw: Roots blower on SHO!!
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 18:31:35 -0500

Tom is also doing it for his sand buggy. Replacing the snakes seems to be
the best route for a street car. I know that some folks love the snakes. For
as unique as they were in 1989, they are old hat today. I think an Eaton (or
better yet, a Whipple) is more impressive on top of the engine!!

Roots-type is the only way to go. No offense to the centrifugal people, but
centrifugal is just not proper for a heavy car with small cubes and no real
gearing options.

Ron Porter

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