Supercharger Kits

Eaton Corporation Logo (™)

Eaton Corporation has roots back to 1911 when Joseph Eaton, Henning Taube and Viggo Torbensen founded Torbensen Gear and Axle Co. The company started off in New Jersey, USA producing seven hand built axles in their founding year.

Eaton company went through many changes in the early part of its life including several name changes, a headquarters move to Cleveland, the sale and then repurchase of the company and several acquisitions of competing and complimentary businesses. Through the years Eaton continued acquisitions that took them far beyond the automotive industry. This expansion has lead Eaton Corporation to sales of $11.9 billion USD in 2009.

When it comes to superchargers and supercharger kits, Eaton has remained loyal to the Roots style blower. Since the 1980′s Eaton has produced over three million Roots superchargers for street and strip. What makes Eaton Roots superchargers stand out is their designs. One of Eaton’s designs, the Twin Vortices Series™ (VTS™) was able to improve fuel efficiency, increase power, reduce noise and vibration and provide a smoother and more efficient air flow. The kicker is they were able to do it all in a smaller and more simple package than many previous Roots-type supercharger kits.

Eaton TVS Roots-Type Supercharger

Eaton continues to work on advancing their supercharger designs. They boast a team of over 50 experts who are dedicated to designing, engineering and testing new supercharger kits. Further, Eaton has their own ‘Proving Grounds’, a 600 acres on and off-road facility in Marshall Michigan where they thoroughly test products in a real world and racing environment.

Supercharger Kits Reader Mail

Question:

I have a new fiat grande punto 120 t-jet, now its already got a turbo and i would like to know if you, have, or know where i can get a superchager for this, or if there even is one?

Answer:

There is a company in the UK called JCR Racing who has produced a supercharger for the Fiat Grande Punto.  I’m not sure of the current status of the project but it should be worth it for you to check with them. Their site is at: http://www.jcrracing.co.uk/.
 
Here’s a video that shows their kit in action:
 

ATI ProCharger Logo (™)

Accessible Technologies, Inc. (ATI) ProCharger was founded in 1994 with a mission to produce a powerful, reliable and efficient supercharger system for a variety of vehicles and engines. Power to the masses one might say. With this goal clearly in sight they charged on to the scene with the first intercooled supercharger system available to the public and street scene. ATI ProChargers were three years ahead of the competition when it came to the intercooled supercharger. ATI’s first supercharger model was the P600B which outflowed other chargers at the time by up to 65 percent. ProCharger’s first offerings were for the Chevy small block, followed with big block versions and then they ventured into the marine industry. ProCharger has always seemed comfortable blazing new trails and they were the first company to offer a warranty that guaranteed boost levels above 8 psi. ATI was also first by introducing a fully self contained, gear driven centrifugal supercharger in 1999.

ATI ProCharger has proven their technology and manufacturing prowess time and again in the professional racing scene. ATI was so sure of their racing product that in 1998 they introduced the ProCharger D-1 which was the first racing supercharger that offered a warranty. Over the years ProCharger powered vehicles have tallied roughly 50 national championships in the upper echelons of racing. In 2009 alone ProCharger racked up 12 different international racing championships over eight different racing bodies which included placings in NMRA, NMCA and PSCA. Along with the championships came several broken records by ATI ProCharged vehicles. ProCharger driven race applications, as well as street, continue to dominate in power and efficiency. ProCharger blowers have boasted setups with over 3,000 horsepower on methanol and over 2,500 horsepower on gasoline.

ATI has built and continues to build ProCharger supercharger kits for a large variety of applications including carbureted and EFI engines for cars, truck and SUV’s, motorcycle, boats and marine engines and other powersport or off-road vehicles such as ATV’s, snow mobiles and PWC’s. After years in the business ProCharger continues to strive for the best products possible. They offer some of the most efficient superchargers on the market today as well as industry leading warranties. As a closing example of ATI ProCharger’s industry leading supercharger kits, their technology and designs have made such an impact that you can easily browse the net and find examples of people erroneously using the ‘ProCharger’ name as an actual type of supercharger.

Weiand (™) Logo

Weiand Automotive Industries, Inc. assured their place in automotive performance history when in 1937 they developed and manufactured the first aluminum intake manifold available to the mass market. Founded by Phil Weiand in the mid 1930′s the company began in California as Weiand Power & Racing Equipment which was a performance parts warehouse.  Their first original product was the ‘High Weiand’ the aforementioned aluminum intake manifold.  It wasn’t until 1957 that Weiand began to develop complete blower drives for the GMC 6-71 supercharger.  There was no turning back from that point.  Weiand continued by producing supercharger kits for several of the most popular platforms through the years.

Phil Weiand was an auto enthusiast to the core and his company reflected that.  Phil and the company were involved in motor sports the whole way.  Weiand products were front and center in many famous dragsters with some big names starting it out like Big Daddy Don Garlits’ Swamprat 1 the Isky-Weiand Special and Lloyd Scott’s Bustle Bomb. In 1963 Weiand Power & Racing Equipment continued to build new roads when they were among the founding members of SEMA (Speed Equipment Manufacturing Association, now Specialty Equipment Manufacturing Association).

Phil Weiand lead the company for generations up until 1978 when he passed away.  Phil’s wife, Joan Weiand, took over and continued to move the company and industry forward.  Under Joan’s lead Weiand introduced a series of Roots type superchargers for popular street applications as well as expanding into the Marine industry.  In 1998 the company left family hands when it was sold to Holley Performance, another legend in the industry. Due to their huge impact in the automotive performance industry both Phil and Joan were inducted into SEMA’s hall of fame.

Weiand Automotive is a pioneer in the automotive performance industry.  Without Weiand’s advancements the level of performance automotive technology, the racing and the street scene would not be where it is today.  Through the years the company has been a leader in the industry with their high quality and innovative designs and parts.  Although Weiand is a household name in performance it is also a tricky name.  Debates over how to pronounce Weiand have happened more than a few times with popular alternatives being ‘Wee-And’, ‘Weigh-And’ and not pronouncing it at all.  For the record, according to the family they pronounce it as ‘Why-And’.

™ BLITZ Co., LTD

BLITZ has roots in the 1970′s as a circuit racing team that grew into a high performance tuning shop. The next step for the company was in 1981 when they established BLITZ Co., LTD in Tokyo, Japan. A focus of BLITZ has always been to produce high quality performance products for the aftermarket that can endure the daily grind and still perform when needed. While maintaining that focus BLITZ has been able to expand by distributing parts internationally. In 1997 BLITZ expanded into the North American Market with a partially owned subsidiary BLITZ North America Inc.

BLITZ roots type supercharger kit for Mazda RX-8.

BLITZ has a large range of performance parts and has become a serious player in the tuner market. They continue to hone their high performance parts using real world street car and professional racing results. TEAM BLITZ has been racing in the D1 Grand Prix Series since 2002 with some strong results. BLITZ has some great superchargers kits available for the tuner market.