Yaris lady owners!

[JBougie]

Originally Posted by kurokoma-kun

I installed a supercharger on my car last winter. There's a picture of it in my garage album.

You may have heard people say that our cars have a four-cylinder, internal combustion engine. Each cylinder is just a tube in the engine that has a piston (a part that goes up and down) inside. Basically, the movement of the pistons is what makes the power that turns the wheels of the car.

To make the power, air and fuel get mixed together inside the cylinder above each piston. The spark plug ignites the air/fuel mixture, and that little explosion (combustion) drives down the piston--the force created is then transmitted to other parts of the car, and off you go.

The Blitz supercharger I have is a pretty complex part! It connects to the outside of the engine, and replaces one of the stock pieces. What it does is compress the air before it goes into the cylinders. More air means more fuel can be mixed with it, so the engine can do more work in each cycle of fuel burning. In other words it has more horsepower.

Summary: supercharger =

What are the before/after stats with your Yaris? I have been toying with the idea of getting a turbo charger - not until next summer since I'm in Minnesota and it's already almost winter time lol I want to be able to enjoy it for a while before I have to drive 5mph through 10 feet of snow for 6 months haha

....and again, I will be paying someone to install it ..... if you want to do another one let me know LOL jk :)

[kurokoma-kun]

Originally Posted by JBougie

What are the before/after stats with your Yaris? I have been toying with the idea of getting a turbo charger - not until next summer since I'm in Minnesota and it's already almost winter time lol I want to be able to enjoy it for a while before I have to drive 5mph through 10 feet of snow for 6 months haha

....and again, I will be paying someone to install it ..... if you want to do another one let me know LOL jk :)

Ah dear lord, the pace at work has been brutal lately, sorry I didn't answer before.

Let's see, before and after: on a recent test I did a 7.7 second 0-60, with close to 149 hp...surely someone with experience at it could improve that time. Stock the Yaris is advertised as having 106 hp at the crank (plenty of stock dynos here in the 90s range at the wheel). So my results sound about right, as the s/c is advertised as providing a 30+ hp gain, and my other intake/exhaust mods make up the rest.

I will never work on the car in the winter again lol! It was so cold, got dark so early, made the whole process just plain unpleasant and took much longer than expected.