is this unit belt driven?

 

Yes, and it's fun as hell to drive also!

 

i hope some day i will own one i drove a limited roadster nice riding car is the srt rough riding.

 

As long as the road is in good shape, (as it was for me) the ride is perfect. Best handling car I have ever driven. Period.

 

aren't all superchargers belt driven ?

 

The IHI supercharger used on SLK32/SRT-6 vehicles is belt-driven with an electro-magnetic clutch. And yes, all superchargers are belt-driven through the vehicle's belt system. Turbochargers are the ones driven by the pressure of exhaust gases.

 

that's what i thought found this site on the web: www.electricchargers.com. check it out.

 

old man, this forum member has them on his Xfire:
http://www.paulscrossfire.com/

 

i wonder how good it is might be a good mod for none srt owners.

 

Oh jeez, those things again. It seems like every car out there has had some run in with them. I still consider them hogwash, as I highly doubt those little electric fans could possibly come even close to providing a single CFM to an engine. More power to the owner of them though, figuratively and literally.

 

Yes, BUT some are centrifugal, same basic design as a turbo but belt driven and some are positive displacement like ours also belted. The slangs/names for our style are Roots,Whipple,twin screw etc. PD units normally come in sooner/lower RPM's and give good street TQ, more area under the curve on a dyno. Centrifugal units have to be spun up a little and come in @ a higher RPM and give good peak numbers. Turbos are exhaust driven and electrics are mostly a joke IMHO.

HTH

DB

 

Yeah I have two, one for each intake, if you want this go with the super e-Ram set up. All the others suck.

 

one of the other members said, they did not work. how much did they improve you xfire?

 

How would he know it did not work? More air more power, it is as simple as that.
The improvement is ok I guess, my 1/4 mile run was better. The improvement numbers are on a thread some where. The super e-RAM did not dyno well because the person doing the run gradually accelerated and gunned hard for 2 sec at the end and stopped at 5,105 RPM. Which is the wrong way to dyno it, because the super e-Ram only works when you push the gas pedal all the way in. So it only worked for 2 sec or so resulting in a disappointing 5 HP to the wheel. But you see when I run the ¼ mile I push the gas pedal all the way in during the whole run, giving it a lot better results. Don’t know what else to say, except that I like it a million times better than only the stock RAM pipes.

 

what times have you turned?

 

My point exactly, these have always popped up on different forums and the user always has a reason for lack of proof. Car manufacturers have used turbo's and blowers in all the styles I mentioned, but never have they used an electric SC that I recall. IF this owner comes to the SRT Nationals and shows me how well it works I will be the first to post that I was wrong.

DB