Has anyone done a DIY supercharger conversion?

[zorro]

I know of a few supercharged 350s, has anyone fitted one to a 400SE ?? Zorro 400SE

[patrick]

I had thought of supercharging the SEAC, but when people stopped laughing, and started quoting me for the work, I lost interest pretty quickly. I was getting figures of around £8,000 for a proper conversion to be carried out. Apparantly, there's an awful lot of work needed to fit it all in. Patrick.

[richa]

As you probably realise, there are a small number of 350SX's around, but there are also a number of 400SX's produced by the same people. I wouldn't getting hold of one of them

[MikeE]

How about fitting a 4.5 AJP from a crashed Cerbie? This might well be a more cost effect approach, that is until you stuffed it at the first prod of the load pedal!!! Edited by MikeE on Friday 26th January 16:28

[dragon]

Thought about it.... However, if I seem to recall - the words 'rare as' and 'rocking horse s*&t' spring to mind!! (although I did see one advertised for about £6K in a Northern Breakers)

[350Matt]

I'd say that you could do the conversion for a lot less than 8K more like 3K depending on how much work you did yourself and how involved you wanted to be about it all. E.g. adding an Intercooler makes the whole thing much more complicated and you should really fit at least some kind of boost / ignition retard if not replace the entire injection system and re-map the whole thing. Otherwise why not try Nitrous, it really doesn't deserve it's engine killer reputation. Matt

[GreenV8S]

quote:Otherwise why not try Nitrous, it really doesn't deserve it's engine killer reputation. Matt

Otherwise why not just stick a bigger engine in? More power for a fraction of the work. Or (and I know I keep saying this) trade up to a car with a bigger engine, get a more reliable car with better performance for similar money. Peter Humphries (and a green V8S)

[TVR Engineer]

quote:I know of a few supercharged 350s, has anyone fitted one to a 400SE ?? Zorro 400SE

Yes the factory had a prototype that gave too much trouble (Blown Engines!!!), In the end it was converted back to standard and given to Al Melling(the A in AJP)as a daily runabout.

[jvaughan]

Sorry to drag this back up, on Usenet, some guy is selling a few Sprintex Superchargers .. at a cost of £800 a throw. these are supposed to be new. Reading some info on them, all you have to do is fabricate them onto the intake, or plenum. Not too sure about this.... Im currently weighing up the costs in going Nitrous or getting a bigger engine. The beauty of NOx is that you simply take it off when you dont want it any more. I dont know... Ill think some more. Jason

[mk1]

Checkout the "Nitrous" thread under the Chimaera file. Bear your compression ratio in mind on all "forced" induced set-ups with todays crap fuel, and also the ECU map.