Twin supercharged engines

[Robmarriott]

Wikipedia cites the first as the Koenigsegg CCR in 2004

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_su...

The Aston Martin Virage was twin supercharged in 1992, clearly well before...

Can anyone think of any earlier?

[Krikkit]

Apparently Shelby made a twinned Cobra as his own car, then made another for Bill Paxton which was destroyed. 1966 though.

Edited by Krikkit on Thursday 24th January 08:43

[Robmarriott]

Well it did, still does on mine too

[Krikkit]

doogz said:

Robmarriott said:

Wikipedia cites the first as the Koenigsegg CCR in 2004

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_su...

The Aston Martin Virage was twin supercharged in 1992, clearly well before...

Can anyone think of any earlier?

Does it?

first twin-supercharged car — Aston Martin Vantage (Virage) 1992

Are we looking at the same page? If my Firefox search is working right it doesn't say Virage anywhere, definitely says CCR for first Twin-supercharged car.

ETA: Just changed on my browser with a refresh, someone's updated the Wiki!

[Krikkit]

doogz said:

Krikkit said:

Are we looking at the same page? If my Firefox search is working right it doesn't say Virage anywhere, definitely says CCR for first Twin-supercharged car.

Fixed now, I've also sorted the link to the actual Virage page, rather than the typical red link.

[GroundEffect]

Was it set up parallel? One supercharger per bank and were they centrifugal?

[GroundEffect]

Thanks. Not enough arsed to Google

Twin positive displacement superchargers. Couldn't have been cheap.

[Robmarriott]

The Koenigsegg uses 2 Rotrex units (centrifugal) the vantage was 2 roots style blowers, one each side of the engine.

Both use a common plenum for both banks.

[ruff'n'smov]

I says the first Gas Turbine car was a 1962 Chrysler ?

I would say the Jet 1 Rover in 1950 trumps that a little.

[bimsb6]

GroundEffect said:

Thanks. Not enough arsed to Google

Twin positive displacement superchargers. Couldn't have been cheap.

It's an aston ,they don't do cheap.