Re: [T3] Hill Climbing and power loss.

[Greg Merritt <gregm@vwtype3.org>]

<x-flowed>At 9:06 PM -0700 6/17/04, Steven Ayres wrote:
> Would that really do it? The proportion of oxygen to air volume remains the
> same, so wouldn't you just have more of the same rich mixture?


	The supercharger puts more air into the same volume -- which 
increases the pressure (and temperature).  So, one filling of the 
combustion chamber will have more air (with its oxygen) than it would 
without the air compressor.

-Greg

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