Re: Engine Mods

["Dave Swingle" <swingle@xxxx>]

Greg 

I think I took that picture - the car is (was) in the Chicago area 
(like me). It's a powerdyne(?) blower (commonly used on Mustangs). I 
have not seen this car now for a couple of years. It's a one-off 
built by a guy name Glenn (sorry, the last name excapes me) at a 
shop called "Glenn and Sons" in the northern chicago suburbs 
(Skokie?). Nothing terribly special about it, it just blows thru the 
intake. I think he had to move the alternator and the coolant 
reservoir. There were no other internal mods made, the trickiest 
part was making the bracket and making the serpentine belt drive 
pulley setup work. I believe that they spent somewhere in the 4-5K 
range to make it all work. 

We put it on a dyno, it made about the same horsepower as a turbo car 
but peaked out at a lower rpm. As with the turbo cars, it leaned out 
horribly on the top end. Any of these solutions really exceed the 
capacity of the stock fuel distributor/injectors. One other problem 
he had was blowing the pressure pipe off the intake manifold. It did 
really perk up the car though. The other funny part is that you could 
take the belt off, put the stock air cleaner back on, and the car was 
completely back to normal. 

Dyno diagrams of this car are on the www.dmcnews.com site. 

This looks nothing like the Houston engine. It looks like a stock 
engine with a blower on it. 

There are no easy answers..... 

Dave 


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "anaheim_21" <anaheim_21@xxxx> wrote:
> I would like to modify my engine to gain a liitle more perfomance 
out 
> of it. I do not have 5G's to send my car to Houston.
> 
> I stumbled upon a website with a pic of a supercharged engine:
> 
> 
http://labwww.csv.cmich.edu/luke/auto/delorean/pics/superchargedprv.jp
> g
> 
> Does anyone anything about this engine or the car's owner? Is this 
> what the upgrade looks like from Houston???
> 
> Greg
> 6598