How hard would it be to boost control a centri blower
11-17-2008, 01:51 PM
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I understand what you're asking. I actually saw someone that was doing this about a year ago in MM&FF on one of the older body style Mustangs. They had an F1 head unit I believe with a pulley size to generate somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 psi. They'd hooked up a wastegate with an electronic boost controller hooked into the aftermarket EFI setup they were using to vent the boost pressure down to something like 15psi on the street and still run pump gas. Than at the track with a simple flip of the switch the boost controller changed to run the 30 psi and race gas. They were having no added stress on the head unit because it was always spinning where it would normally be making power but the power would come in sooner since the supercharger was "thinking" it was already boosting at near idle.
11-17-2008, 02:19 PM
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A guy did the same thing with a c5 vette as well. Look on Ls1tech and do a search. There was a post of this not to long ago. I have looked at doing this as well. A while back a guy did it to a Cobra mustang and said it was unreal. The boost was instant. He ended up wrecking the car on the express way by mashing the gas at 70 and the car broke loose and hit the median wall. Sounded like it worked awesome up to that point..
11-17-2008, 07:10 PM
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It will certainly work I was going to do this on my c5, but I ended up selling it and not installing the mods so I could buy a truck. I will look and see if I can find the articles I had on it for you. It needs to be done exactly like you said, you got everything down it sounds like, and on the more heat issue... you are also venting a good amount of air which would directly be lowering the iat to negate the extra heat created. My only worry would be that you are only running the p1 head unit, and it may run outta steam at a lower psi then you are wanting.
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