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Phase 2 Begins
So the obvious path that anyone would take having a car that looked great on the outside and had the air conditioning removed to free up more space near the radiator is to go Turbo right? Well not me...
I went with the Jackson Racing Supercharger.
Now you may laugh, you may hate, you may not appreciate, but I have some very good reasons I did not go with a turbocharger. As I perused the forums online, I read more and more about people's experiences with turbochargers. Basically, those that had them, a majority of them were having problems with it, whether it was traction control, tuning problems, parts failing or the length of time it took to work on it, the turbo route seemed less and less appealing. Also, people that had a turbo that functioned correctly always seemed hungry for more. They were never happy that their numbers weren't high enough or that their lag was too long or that reliability was now very poor. If those that have turbo's were salesmen, they would've done an excellent job going out of business. But then again, the modification obsession is a game we all play but have to lose a couple of times and I understand that.
So the supercharger route came into being, and I liked what I saw. I'm not saying the JRSC is the best kit out there or best engineered or best power producer, but when I see make a plus and minus list of turbochargers, both columns seem equally as filled. With the supercharger, the checkmarks seem to stradle the line in every single category. The positives aren't particularly strong and the negatives aren't particularly bad. But the part that became ingrained into my mind was that I wanted reliability, power came second and simplicity came third.
Plus the rarity and originality was also a plus when it was all said and done. The challenge of extracting power out of a device that was only known to make so much power became like a quest for a holy grail for me.
I figured I already had the means to one-up everybody in the supercharger scene, I had a fully built block. If reliability in a car means having components that are more beefed up than they need to be for a certain power level, I had that hands down. I already got 225,000 miles out of my previous stock engine, why not get 200,000 more?
Thus, the supercharger was ordered.
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