Supercharge or turbo my 450?

[Boosted LS1]

I think you'll find the Rotrex items have gearing inside them. Centri's are basically a belt driven turbo with lots to choose from.

[Pupp]

Did you ever put a single turbo together on that cast Y piece Mike?

Home brew turbo easily do-able if you're handy with the spanners and like fettling, and perhaps most flexible/accepting of existing set up... kits all great for fit and drive if that's preferred but, obviously, you pay for the fact someone has had to do the development. Few RV8s run anything like the CRs claimed on here

[Boosted LS1]

Pupp said:

Did you ever put a single turbo together on that cast Y piece Mike?

Home brew turbo easily do-able if you're handy with the spanners and like fettling, and perhaps most flexible/accepting of existing set up... kits all great for fit and drive if that's preferred but, obviously, you pay for the fact someone has had to do the development. Few RV8s run anything like the CRs claimed on here

Yes I did, a hybrid t3 but in reality it all got a bit heavy so probably wasn't the best way forward from a marketing perspective. Better to let each do their own thing if you know what I mean.

[Pupp]

Still think one of these could be side mounted above a manifold with good results...

[Alexdaredevils]

Pupp said:

Still think one of these could be side mounted above a manifold with good results...

Or 2

[Pupp]

Alexdaredevils said:

Or 2

Two m90s could

[Alexdaredevils]

Pupp said:

Alexdaredevils said:

Or 2

Two m112's could

Fixed that

[Boosted LS1]

Pupp said:

Still think one of these could be side mounted above a manifold with good results...

You could probably use a offy or huffy for that project. I've done a similar conversion on a cosworth 24v using the merc compressor.

[l6rth]

Think we have gone off topic abit this was the original question

[report] [news] Yesterday (12:31) quote quote all
Planning big things for winter 2015 and want opinions options and advice.

Option 1 turbo from earn whalley at torquev8 £2900 inc vat fitted retaining 14cux

Option 2 supercharge kit from sc £3450 inc vat self fitting also retaining 14cux

Neither option uses a cooler which could be added later.

I have compression tested and all is ok and will do a leak down test to be sure.

I don't want to cause myself issues after the install and obviously want reliability over out and out power.

[Boosted LS1]

I'd go for the turbo option :-)

[l6rth]

I am leaning towards rand turbo fully installed to save me and alex daredevils the both because no doubt I couldn't do it without him. I would love to hear from anyone who has had experience of this install and will start a new thread to see who has.