TECHCO announces the release of their flagship Supercharger kit for the 2005 - current Ford Mustang 4.6L 3V. TECHCO engineered a Twin Screw Supercharger from scratch and designed the reverse rotor lobes to allow for a front inlet induction.

The TECHCO Supercharger Kit for the Mustang utilizes a large 3.0L displacement supercharger and intercooler system displacing 118.4 square inches. TECHCO's supercharger kit should provide the most horsepower (525hp) per lb. of boost available on the market today, although Edelbrock made this claim just two months ago.



“The ground up design is advanced in every way, from the in-house manufacturing of our reverse-revolution rotor screws, front intake system, long high-flow runners, stand alone 8 rib drive system, and our patented dual A-Frame Intercooler system, no area of the supercharger was overlooked and taken for granted. This is a complete rethink and clean sheet design that will take the industry by storm,” says Bill Tally Chief Engineer for TECHCO.

“Our TECHCO Twin Screw Supercharger Kit for the Mustang is the culmination of everything we’ve learned in design and development since we first began supercharging the modular Mustang engines more than a decade ago. With our large 3.0L displacement Supercharger, the instant throttle-on boost is amazing and a real blast to drive!” Says John Spruill, Vice President of Engineering for TECHCO.



What makes the TECHCO 3.0L Reverse-Revolution Twin Screw Supercharger so revolutionary is the unique design, which optimizes airflow efficiency throughout. Incoming air is fed into the front of the supercharger, not the back like conventional designs. This ensures that the incoming air has minimal turns, eliminating restrictions, before entering into the supercharger housing. Additionally, without the need for a complex inlet tube, the largest possible orifice size is maintained, maximizing airflow efficiencies. The air then flows into the lobes of the Reverse-Revolution asymmetric multi-lobe compressor screws, where it is compressed, not merely moved, as in other forms of supercharging. The compressed air then flows into the intercooler housing, which houses two intercoolers, mounted in an A-Frame configuration to ensure the airflow is evenly distributed to each runner bank. The twin intercooler design results in higher cooling capacity and greater thermal efficiencies, as the cooling water only has to pass through the intercoolers once, keeping the charge air cool. A further benefit of the front inlet design is the additional package space above the supercharger that is used for long, high-flow Intake runners, which increases low-end torque. The resulting design of the TECHCO Reverse-Revolution Twin Screw Supercharger allows air to move through the supercharger quickly and efficiently, without significant heat buildup, and at the highest resulting airflow volume and air density at low boost output. The performance result is maximized horsepower and torque output.

Key Features of The TECHCO Reverse-Revolution Twin Screw Supercharger™:
• Reverse-Revolution Twin Screw Compressor with Asymmetric Multi-Lobe Screws
• 3.0L / 180 cu. in. Displacement
• Front Inlet Induction with Integrated Bypass
• 12 Inch Long High Flow Intake Runners
• Dual Stage Intercooler System with Single-Pass Coolant Flow through the (2) A-Frame Intercoolers (118.4 Sq. Inch area), Large Capacity Heat Exchanger, High Volume Intercooler Pump and Recovery Tank
• Open Element Cold Air Kit with High-Flow Air Filter, Billet Aluminum Venturi and High Flow Inlet Tube
• 100mm Billet Aluminum MAFS Housing
• High Volume Extruded Aluminum Fuel Rails with upgraded fuel injectors
• Separate 8-Rib FEAD (Front End Accessory Drive)
• Ultra-Light Weight Aluminum Extrusions utilized throughout the design
• Diablo Predator Flash Programmer with TECHCO Calibration
• Detailed Instruction Manual



Although the TECHCO supercharger is a completely new design, built entirely in-house at TECHCO, it does have similar characteristics to the supercharger Edelbrock announced at the SEMA show last November. Both systems have a front inlet induction system. The TECHCO supercharger system seems to re-use the stock throttle body, whereas Edelbrock includes their own larger, 85mm unit. And both systems have long, straighter-than-stock intake runners to allow for increased torque production and larger intercoolers. The Edelbrock system has longer runners than the TECHCO kit (15 inches vs. 12 inches), however, TECHCO was able to fit twin-intercoolers with 118.4 square inches of cooling capacity versus Edelbrock's single intercooler with 100 square inches. I guess the biggest difference between these two great supercharger kits is the price - the TECHCO supercharger is expected to be about $1,000 more than the Edelbrock system.

I'd love to see a side-by-side test of these two supercharger kits. Until then, let me know which kit looks better to you.