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Old 10-09-2013, 10:02 AM   #45
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I'm guessing that occar's response to you, Mike, had a bit to do with this comment...

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Originally Posted by Mike@HennesseyPerformance View Post
b) It takes 1/3 of a horsepower to spin the rotors on a supercharger. I feel with your experience and wisdom you made a very good point, that is an incredible amount of effort, and think of the incredible stresses a rubber belt puts on the crank shaft too.*
I read that as (paraphrasing) "the parasitic loss from the supercharger is only 1/3 of a HP total". I don't believe I've seen a supercharger with that kind of adiabatic efficiency.

That's also what he was referring to when saying that your 700bhp package was "875-ish". Assuming that the 700bhp was post-loss.
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