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Originally Posted by jacobe38
Hopefully it works out. I did weigh supercharger vs turbo charger and wish I had found this thread at that point, it might have swayed me to do turbo instead. You make some good points about it, while I had been under the impression supercharging was safer/more reliable for mechanical failures. Mostly due to superchargers not applying a lot of low end rod bending torque like a turbo might. I had also followed the whole speed academy chapter with their FRS that they supercharged, and they seemed super happy with how that turned out. But I guess there are so many variables that its really case by case. I mean clearly you have a successful turbo setup.
I had a question about the fender vents - race louvers, right? Did you notice a difference with those? And are they just vented through the fender liner, or did you remove it entirely?
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to be honest, you can't go wrong with the jackson racing supercharger kit. If i had to buy a supercharger all over, I'd buy that kit.
For me, even though I had a kraftwerks kit, the c38 that i had is noticeably slower than the turbo. the gtx2860r is such a small turbo it really wakens the car up, more so than the supercharger. Turbo spool is basically non-existent. Additionally, it was just easier to maintain and a lot easier to switch boost maps. No need to change pulleys, just let ecutek do the magic with the cruise control stalk.. it's sweet.
As far as fender vents go, yes correct, Race Louvers. You won't be able to necessarily feel the difference, but I'm sure there are a few tenths here and there that add up to allow the high pressure zone to vent out. In my opinion, they would work even better with splitter diffusers. The company Professional Awesome makes these splitter diffusers and I'm in the middle of building my own wooden splitter in maximizing the gridlife streetmod ruleset.
As far as the question about the fender liner, I cut only a portion that is a little bit bigger than the vent itself. Removing the entire fender liner causes a lot more drag than people think. So retained most of the fender liner to avoid having air just randomly spilling into the engine bay and every which direction. Hope that helps!