Is there a way to disconnect the Supercharger to save gas maybe by taking a belt off?

Thanks

I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but yes you should be able to do that w/o any problems. I thought I have read somewhere before about people doing that, besides the belt for the S/C only runs the S/C right? The rest of the accessories should run off the other belt.

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Mods: Intake, 180 T-stat, AL 104's, HID's, Tint, Debadged, Alt. Re-wire (so far...)
Future plans: PCM, 3.5 MPS, and possibly headers.

Taking the belt off will "disable" the supercharger...but you will get better gas mileage by just staying out of the throttle with the supercharger connected.

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X2 with above.

If you have a MPS, run a larger pulley, and keep put of the throttle.

Taking the belt off will make the car so sloooooooooooow you will be giving it more throttle to get it up and going, and for sure the MPG could drop for sure keeping that up. And regardless, when you don't have your supercharger, you will need it or want it sometimes. I feel like that every day driving the work truck around. Big bummer not having boost behind my foot.

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Thanks for the quick replies.

Just by taking off the belt for the SC my DIC was giving me 2-3 mpg more. I haven't tested this by hand and paper but there was a few times that I almost got hit pulling out and being able to hammer it to make tight gaps in traffic. I'm averaging about 21-23 mpg in town with 107,500 miles on th engine. Only things I've done to it is replaced a few idler pulleys and new autolite plugs.

boost bypass mod reversed...boost still but later in the throttle

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1999 Silver GTP~HP Tuners~XP cam~ZZP FS Intercooler~ZZP 78mm Billet Throttlebody~LQ4 MAF~Lucas 42.5's~Coated Pacesetters~2.8 MPS~PRJ fuel logs~Ported & Polished S/C~JMB fwi ~Built Tranny-3.29's-7/8's chain-Intense forged Input Shaft~

Running mid-high 12's

LOL the D.I.C. is the most worthless gimmick on our cars. Its a reference or a guideline as to what is really going on. Do the math, the numbers never lie on MPG.

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It does make a difference, but only in the city not on the highway, I just had to put a coupler in my supercharger. I didn't find it that much slower than when I had my 97 SE with the 3.8L . Besides the GTP's are better on fuel than the SE's or the GT's on the hwy.

you get bad mileage then, I am getting 23 with mine running the s/c and have a cam (and 150k on the engine)

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'97 GTP VS cam, ZZP PCM, and not much else yet