Supercharging my Van
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What car is that intercooler from? Looks like a very nice fit in a round nose.

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...tid=469104&fr=0

Latest pics not showing here either, maybe they are too big.(?)

Edit:
Fixed it (and spelling), pics were too big, copied the wrong ones... DUH..

Edited by Yo-Han on 6th Feb, 2013.

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How fast do you make the charger spin? And how much psi does it make with that? Grts

you can do anything if you set your mind to it...
i rather blow it up winning than keep it together losing.

finish date set for project 1... march 2018

S4 has a different cool the A4 :) and pics still don't work :/

and Ive updated google chrome.

dono then mate i use firefox never heard of google chrome?

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The big pulley or the works pulley? And do they have the same groove or did you have one made up?

you can do anything if you set your mind to it...
i rather blow it up winning than keep it together losing.

finish date set for project 1... march 2018

I guess the normal pulley.
Multi-V should be fine.

I did have a pulley made for the SC to reduce rpm but from what I learned from Stuart that was not needed.
Ones the engine is run in I plan to put the original back on.

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this might be a sill qustion but are charges like turbos in the way it take an amount of rpm to make bost? for instance dose the charger make bost allmost at idle? or dose it have to spin more to make bost?

Superchargers boost from moment engine starts as its being turned over by the engine :)

O.s working now :)

so you have a much more useable boost range the whole rpm range is on boost?

err not really higher the revs its drops off quite a bit tbh

how about snowmobile pulleys they change size depending on rpm? lol
so what really needs doing is to spin the charger less at low rpm and more at higher rpm but in a non Lilian fashion

I think the reason it drops off at high revs is more to do with the fact that most super chargers reach a point where it doesn't matter how much faster you spin them they just end up creating heat rather than boost.

A bit of progress:

Finalysed the fixation of manifold of the suction side to SC.
Tacked clutch side strap to allow for final adjustment if needed.






Also disassembled the S setup to refurbish (I did take the bearing out aswell).






While taking the callipers appart found that the bolt that connect the two halves only screws into other side 2-3 winding.... Is this the way it is out of the factory?

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Hey Han,
Looks great.....
Om het maar zo te zeggen doorgaan want mijn 1380 moet ook nog een blower hebben......

Greetz bas

Bedankt Bas!
Don't hold your breath; time available for the car is very limited so progress is ever so slow.
But happy to share thoughts and findings.

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Goed bezig
A supercharger is really fun!!! Especially low rev torque is great!

Remko
Turbo'd Pickup

Another bit of progress.

A fuel 'rail' made, need to add a small champfer and fixation to manifold but it fits:




(In the picture it looks much closer to bodywork than actually is)


Am going to get some stuff zinq plated so thought I'd pull the 4 pots I have appart too.
Callipers were in pretty bad state, had to pull some pistons out with a bit more effort:


Inside of the callipers look fine so will go ahead and get them plated.

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Bit of progress before life has thrown me a curve ball and relationsh!t happend...


Tack welded return tube; looks good to me:


Fixing a pulley to the distribution cover, need to cut off excess bits and do some proper welds, ligning up square and flat was bit of work but worked out fine:


Upgraded the 940 'switch-type' TPS to 850 'full-angle' TPS sensor:


Fitted grubscrews for oil gallery plugs:


Made a bit for ACV:


Although it needs some finishing toughes I'm quite chuffed with finale result; started off looking like this:


Should fit in like this:


Last picture, blasted some component for plating:



Not quite sure how progress will go; guess we'll have to see.
Thanks for watching,
Han

Edit: for once you would think I could do this properly in 1 go.... pffff

Edited by Yo-Han on 28th Jul, 2013.

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Found some motivation to get go into garage.

Need to finish (tack) welding everything in place so I can take engine and subframe out and get started on that.

This is how I got the parts back from electroplating; very nicely done, that for E45....!



Made a bracKet for throttle cable orientation; modified a bulkhead bit from Festo, works a treat:



Now a question:
I need to place the IAT sensor somewhere, I know it needs to be somewhere behind the TB, but will the signal suffer if it is pretty close to the TB?


Alternatively (prefered) I could position it into a bend, most flow will follow outer radius but I suppose that doesn't affect charge temperature and/or reading on inner radius..... or does it?

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Holidays... equals some progress..

Pulled out the engine and subframe.


https://ykzykq.bay.livefilestore.com/y2pmKT.../Sub.jpg?psid=1

Took all parts of the subframe found one of the upper arm pins need a refurb..

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