The 57 Ford 312 used a McCulloch supercharger with the carb in a pressure box. That was the engine that spooked Chevy into putting the 348 engine into the 58 model cars instead of using it in the medium-duty trucks like it was intended. The Fords were waxing the 57 Chevvies with their 283's on the drag strips. If the carburetor is installed on the inlet side of the blower, the fuel gets atomized better by running through the vanes on its way to the engine. Regardless of where the fuel gets into the airstream, the air is going to get a major temperature boost going through the supercharger, so an air-to-air aftercooler should be incorporated somewhere between the supercharger and the intake manifold.
The 1954 Kaiser Darrin used a supercharger with a flathead Continental inline six. It really improved the performance on that engine. Other than the gee-whiz factor of having a blown stovebolt, there are lots of better, simpler ways to get more performance out of your 235.
Jerry
Last edited by Hotrod Lincoln; 07/31/2008 2:54 AM.
