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Supercharger for the cadillac cts-v
Supercharger for the Cadillac CTS-V (Fesler Built of Phoenix)
What is a Supercharger?
A supercharger is a gas compressor driven by the engine. It supplies air under high pressure to the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine. It’s also known as a “blower”. The supercharger combines air and fuel and increases the amount of both in the cylinder. This improves the horsepower of your engine, as well as its overall power and efficiency.
It is comparable to a turbocharger, but does have one obvious difference. A turbocharger is powered by the mass-flow of exhaust gases driving a turbine, a supercharger is powered mechanically, by belt- or by chain-drive from the engine's crankshaft . A supercharger can take in as much as one third of the total crankshaft power of the engine, although at the same time, it can boost the entire engine output by over 100 percent.
Superchargers are also used in aircraft as a power-boosting mechanism for function in high altitudes. It also adds power to the aircraft without the weight of building a bigger engine with larger cylinders.
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