frayed

any thoughts on tracking your s2k with a supercharger? I'm concerned with heat soak, extreme underhood temps, and durability.

My pit mate in my last DE was running a Saleen Mustang (roots-type blower). It was over 100 degrees on the track (texas world speedway). He suffered from heat-soak that was so bad, that he decided that he's no longer fussing with the car and gonna dump it for a n/a car. For you TWS guys, he went from a top speed of about 130 on the front straight to barely managing 95 (from over 350 hp to under 200 hp).

All that, and he was running an air-water intercooler!

I'm hesitant about exposing a car with non-factory induction to the extremes of DE's and track events, where you run flat out during multiple 20-30 minute runs in a day. Quite a different environment than even the most spirited street driving.

Thoughts?

SilverSurfer

I have been to the track 6 times. Each event we run about 4-20 minute sessions with about an 1 1/2 break in between. I have not experienced any degradation in performance due to heat soak. In fact, it has been my experience that in the later runs in the day I had my best runs. However, the engine is way hot, the engine bay is so hot I can not even check the oil but it doesn't seem to hinder the performance any. Maybe I am not pushing it hard enough to experience heat soak. davepk has been to the track a dozen times most with the SC and he has never complained about heat soak and he really pushes his car to the limit.

The times we have been to the track the temps have been in the upper 90's.