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Originally Posted by Vettezuki
From what I can imagine and know about physics, I'm gonna have to agree with Guy. A Centri or Turbo is blowing compressed air into the intake, on a roots, you have a very large spinning mass as part of the intake, it must be torqing into and away from the heads all the time; a kind of ratcheting effect . . . 10s of thousands of times. Mechanically, it seems like a much more violent environment/system.
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That's exactly what happens. Ed Curtis has confirmed this and there is a reason why the NHRA requires blower straps for roots applications.