Supercharger Type: Screw

Drawing power from the engine the Twin Screw compressor acts a bit like the Roots blower by pulling air through the intake using counter rotating meshing lobed spinning rotors. The air is trapped between the lobes and pushed out to discharge to the engine. Unlike the Roots design, the Twin Screw implements a conically tapered rotor that compresses the air before discharging. The screw compressor is also a positive displacement (fixed amount of air in each cycle) supercharger like the Roots system.

Cutaway of a Whipple Twin-Screw Supercharger
Cutaway of a Whipple Twin-Screw Supercharger

Also Known As: Lysholm, Rotary Screw, Twin Screw
Displacement Type: Positive Displacement
Compression Type: Internal Compression
Year Designed: 1878
Designed By: Heinrich Krigar (Screw Compressor), Alf Lysholm (1935)


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    The Whipple W140AX (Green) bare unit for custom fit applications or to build a kit on. Whipple’s current generation of twin screw compressors are advertised, among other things, to run basically noise free around idle, have improved rotor coating for increased efficiency and durability and better bearing lubrication and design. They are also marketed to … Read more

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