| MSEIDVALVE | -- 06-23-2010 @ 4:33 AM |
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I have been a member of the EFV8 Club Australian Regional group 94 and also the parent club for many years and have recently purchased an unrestored 1948 convertible which I am going to restore. I am looking at fitting a McCulloch supercharger to this vehicle. I realise this was not a factory fitted accessory but I would like to know if these superchargers were ever offered by ford dealers as an option or endorsed in any way by the Ford Motor Company as an accessory for any of the Ford V8s?
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| kubes40 | -- 06-23-2010 @ 5:33 AM |
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Seems to me they were on occasion fitted to public buses as well as large trucks. That was 1940 at least. Whether or not Ford authorized this, I am not certain. However, I am certain Ford did NOT authorize such for any passenger vehicles.
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| supereal | -- 06-23-2010 @ 6:23 AM |
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I well remember those centrifugal superchargers from my "hot rod" days. If they were wound up at high speeds on the salt flats, etc, they could produce amazing results. As for street use, not so much. Today, the exhaust driven turbocharger employs the same technology, only with waste gate control and, occasionally, vane pitch control, as well. The main problem with the McCulloch unit was, as I recall, a tendency to produce engine destruction by preignition, or by melting pistons. I believe Kaiser once offered them as a factory accessory. Ford didn't approve of almost all modifications, and didn't even do so with the popular Columbia axle conversion. Like so many other artifacts of the 40's and 50's, the centrifugal supercharger is probably better remembered than used today. Almost all superchargers today are the Rootes vane type on diesels where they pump air only, not a fuel mixture.
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