Blowers
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First of all, why a blower? What good is it? | First of all, why a blower? What good is it? | ||
| − | Engines, for all intensive purposes are air pumps. The more air you can put through them, the more power you can get out of them. Consequently, a blower can and will push air | + | Engines, for all intensive purposes are air pumps. The more air you can put through them, the more power you can get out of them. Consequently, a blower can and will push more air into a motor than could be ingested by the motor depending on atmospheric pressure alone. By increasing the pressure of the intake charge, you push more air into the cylinder. More air, when mixed with more fuel, makes for a stronger combustion burn. The stronger burn pushes harder on the piston, which pushes harder on the crankshaft, which creates more torque/hp. This article will only address mechanically-driven blowers or superchargers. Turbochargers will be covered later in another article, probably by someone else, because although I know they work very well, I just can't get wrapped around the maps used to size them. Maybe later..... |
[[PARTS OF A BLOWER]] | [[PARTS OF A BLOWER]] | ||
| − | Blowers are very simple in nature and have very few parts. | + | Blowers are very simple in nature and have very few parts. Centrifugal blowers are made up of an intake (scoop), case (to contain the vanes and hold the drive pulleys), vanes, drive (pulleys), and a exhaust manifold mount (usually, incorporated into the case. Roots-type blowers and screw-type blowers consist of a case, two rotors and a set of gears. |
This will get us off to a good start................................................................ | This will get us off to a good start................................................................ | ||
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