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Old 08-08-2004, 10:56 PM   #26
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OK, now I'm baffled. Since the Roots blower is classified as a positive displacement pump, how is it you can suck air through it without a bypass valve arrangement of some sort?

Do you have any pics of the completed plumbing you're running now? That may help clear things up for me....

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Old 08-09-2004, 04:07 AM   #27
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1=MAF attached to air filter. I cut out the fender well to JAMB this into place. I still need to get a real MAF to air filter connector.
2=Two part custom welded intake for the supercharger. I took the original intake, cut off the top, and welded some other part (the black thing) to the top of it. I dont know where the black thing came from other than I won it as a piece of the supercharger action. I suspect it was part of the throttle body intake. Cost $40 for both parts)
3=Custom braket cut out of 3/8" steel Cost $60
4=Original crank. Too small. Needs to be about 8" in diameter. Hope to custom fab one this week for about $100.
5=Custom intake. Had made at my muffler shop for $75.
6=Nitrous Solenoid. You can follow the line above it to see it enter the intake right above #5 arrow.

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Old 08-09-2004, 04:08 AM   #28
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Ok, while I still need do a few things to tighten the system up, the word is GO!

With this particular Eaton supercharger, a WOT switch is perfect. There is no need for a BOV. There is no need for an idle bypass valve. The thing is pretty perfect.

Since I installed the WOT switch and removed the BOV, the power is great, even with a too small crank pulley.

Go WOT and the boost just builds super gentle but faster and faster. No hard spike unless you creep up the RPMs without going WOT and then stab it, then the power does hit hard, exspeccially in first and second.

Let off the gas and there is no repercussion or need for a BOV because the compressor is instantly shut off and free rotating.

You may remember that I said the supercharger max rpm is too low. It is. Once I install the 8" custom crank pulley, the power will be outstanding. However, as it is, I can chirp all 4 tires off a hard start. When doing a drag start, I will have to be careful not to burn my clutch.


OK, now how it works with nitrous.

INSANE. OK, not really. But I cut my current nitrous shot of 80hp in half to 40 hp, and I get the same performance. So while the supercharger is not giving me what a 40hp shot of nitrous does, when you combine the two, you get more. ie 1 + 1+ = 3. This is because the nitrous cools the air charge.

The final potential. Intense. I feel that once the crank pulley is sized correctly to the supercharger and with duel stage nitrous, I can easily be putting out 250 crank hp. And since the supercharger power map is a straight diagonal line the strain on the drivetrain is going to be "minimal"

My prediction, I will be a 14.2 second car at about 95 mph in the trap. Not to shabby for a car that started out with a best of 16.6 at 79 mph. And all for a cost of about $1200. Plus some time. Lets see if I can do it.
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Old 08-09-2004, 04:13 AM   #29
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klug. Without the clutch engaged, the engine is drawing air normally and simply free spins the rotors in the supercharger. You actually can hear some whine from this. I at first thought this was my fuel pump going out until I figured it out. I will suffer some gas milage loss I suspect but not much. The drain on the system is supposedly only about 2 hp (I cant remember where I read this).

I am going to contact Eaton this week and see if they have a dozen or so superchargers of this style they have as extra inventory. If so, I will plan on doing a kit. Buy in Bulk!
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Old 08-09-2004, 11:44 PM   #30
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My fears for making a bigger crank pulley would be A- an exploding crank pulley. B- Overdriving the alternator and power steering. Solutions for this would be to just get smaller alternator and powersteering pulley.
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DON'T do this!!!! If you go bigger crank pulley, and SMALLER alternator/power steering pulleys, you'll only make it worse. If you go bigger crank, you also have to go bigger steering/alternator pulley's too.
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Old 08-10-2004, 12:03 AM   #31
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Your right, I knew this but typed the wrong direction. I need to remill a 3.5" altenator pulley to keep the altenator rpm the same. Not so sure about the P-steering.
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Old 08-10-2004, 10:15 PM   #32
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My God....if someone can get a electromag-clutch on/off supercharger to work...I'll pee my pants. I always wanted the whole Mad-Max thing for the Scooby. I hope you're just not doing this for your own benefit. If you manage to get this to work flawlessly, please make a kit!!

I'll dump my AVO kit and get this instead.

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Old 08-11-2004, 12:21 AM   #33
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Ben, this is going to work flawlessly! I just hafta have Faith!.

I am working on setting up a kit but this will take awhile to have a "nice" kit available. Max boost will probably be only 8 PSI at 6000 rpm. This is NOT a turbocharger where boost hits and holds. Power goes up as rpm goes up. This kit is going to be designed to be an easy bolt on install (4 hours) for $2500ish. If you supply the supercharger and supercharger intake, kit cost will drop over $1000 to about $1000 to $750. I sure hope this all works out!

There will be options for intercooler and water injection and nitrous ports as well. I just have to get a backer now. Got $35,000?
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Old 08-11-2004, 01:59 AM   #34
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wow this is awesome! what are you running for internals (you're going to scare me if you say stock)? you have the ej22 right? what other mods do you have besides this sc and nitrous?
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Old 08-11-2004, 02:07 AM   #35
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Its stock baby. I havent even upgraded the fuel pump. The thing is, how often are you on boost? and really hard for a long time? Not much. If you are a serious street racer/track racer/drag racer you probably have already done internals. As for me, I just am a guy with two kids who takes the old wagon out to the track. So the engine only sees hard time a few seconds a day -30 seconds at a time at most. I do know that that few seconds can destroy the engine but mine is still running great at 30 mpg.
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Old 08-11-2004, 02:08 AM   #36
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I was looking at everything and since you are not running A/C could you run the supper charger off of the seciton of the crank pully that use to run the A/C? maybe you could weld on a bigger section onto the crank, so that the alternator/ps run off their original locaiotn, and the sc runs off the old a/c section, but then you would have to remount the s/c and redo the pipes.
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Old 08-11-2004, 08:06 AM   #37
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You'll have to move the supercharger somewhere if you want this to work on the RS. The ABS solenoids will be in the way of all the piping and maybe the supercharger as well.
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Old 08-11-2004, 10:32 PM   #38
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OK, fuel management is needed.

But, it is cheap and easy. It is mechanical versus computer.

I noticed that the AF readings were just slightly low. No detonation or anything but the digital read kept slipping a little versus reading constant while on boost.

I decided to wire in the fuel solenoid from my nitrous solenoid with a small fuel jet. It was wired directly to the supercharger so it would only turn on when the supercharger was on at WOT.

Perfect, .7-.8 readings on the AF digital reader. And a bit more power or so says the butt dyno.

So basically if the supercharger kit makes it to sales (everyone cross their fingers) it will include a fuel solenoid and an injector that is welded into the intake. Basically just a fifth injector.

As soon as my new 7 to 8" pulley is turned, for maximum boost, I will have to take it out to the dyno and really tune it with the fuel jets.
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Old 08-11-2004, 11:13 PM   #39
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remember you are running an OBD I car, easier to mess with then an OBD II. And your kit wont work with any car that has ABS which is like almost all cars since 95/96.
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Old 08-11-2004, 11:22 PM   #40
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Damn them safety NAZIS!!! OK everyone, pull out your ABS, stick in your Blower!
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Old 08-12-2004, 09:33 AM   #41
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Damn them safety NAZIS!!! OK everyone, pull out your ABS, stick in your Blower!
You going to include a ABS-delete kit with your setup too?
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Old 08-12-2004, 01:46 PM   #42
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Ha, Ha, just put a warning lable stating that you must replace all of the hard lines, that would make the kit a real popular item.
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Old 08-13-2004, 03:42 AM   #43
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I "ordered" my 7.5" pulley today. Damn I wish I had my own big lathe so I could turn it myself.

To make this pulley, I took my existing old underdrive pulley, turned off the pulley ridges and took it to my machinist so he could attach a larger piece of aluminium to and turn the whole thing into a nice big 7.5" crank pulley. I decided not to have him make me a full 8" pulley so I would be on the "safe" side. I am having troubles with my boost gauge, and the one I borrowed sucks too, so I am not sure of current boost but it seems to be about 3-5. If it jumps up to 10 with the new pulley, well, have faith in God and 97 octane fuel.
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Old 08-13-2004, 01:48 PM   #44
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I don't know if your aware of your car's compression ratio, if I remember correctly it's 9.6, I'm wondering how the higher compression and larger displacement 2.5's will react to your SC without management.
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Old 08-13-2004, 04:26 PM   #45
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From what little I know at this stage, certain rs's are better suited to boosting, whether it be from a turbo or a supercharger.
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Old 08-13-2004, 09:24 PM   #46
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Reddevil,

Before you go any further, please tell me you have an exhaust gas temperature...? That digital read out is cool and informative but you can be running right were you want as far as air/fuel ratios go and still be running too hot. This way, at least you know your EGT is consistantly being monitored.
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Old 08-13-2004, 10:10 PM   #47
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Sorry, I cant tell you that. Its a secret.

No, I dont have one hooked up yet. I do have one but the leads are too short and I need to figure out how to CORRECTLY extend them.

At this stage I am not worried (too much) about EGT due to the fact that I am running such a small crank pulley which results in lower overall power and boost. I am also running a low of 94 octane fuel up to 96 (for tonight at the drags). I have been running a small shot (40hp) of nitrous a few times and have yet to have a hiccup, much less detonation.

Next week though, when I get the larger crank pulley I WILL install the EGT because now I will be running a much hotter air charge through the system and this is when I will start to run into problems if they want to show their ugly little heads.
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Old 08-14-2004, 04:57 AM   #48
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Ran the supercharger tonight finally at the track. Without nitrous, I only ran a 16.45 but it was first run of the night and I launched bad. Then worked my way up to a 55 shot of nitrous and the supercharger loved it. I ran consistant 14.8-15.1's 6 times in a row. Best was 14.853 @ 93.22. The top end was completely different than with NA plus nitrous 80 shot. Compare a 14.967 @ 90 (NA w/nitrous 80 shot) to a 14.853 @ 93.22 (supercharger w/ nitrous 55 shot).

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Old 08-20-2004, 02:40 AM   #49
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You're nuts. O_O

But in a good way.
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Old 08-20-2004, 02:57 AM   #50
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i have an L. i also happen to not have ABS. wheres my eaton ?
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