fitting your own supercharger kit
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Some kits come with a flash tuner anyway. Its won't be hard. I swapped intakes, injectors, rockers etc no problem. Go for it. It will be fun even if its not much cheaper depending on exchangre rate, shipping, duty and vat. If you drive it off boost it will be fine on stock tune. You could probably fix the bypass open if required. But check as some kits come with the tune.
ringram said:
Some kits come with a flash tuner anyway. Its won't be hard. I swapped intakes, injectors, rockers etc no problem. Go for it. It will be fun even if its not much cheaper depending on exchangre rate, shipping, duty and vat. If you drive it off boost it will be fine on stock tune. You could probably fix the bypass open if required. But check as some kits come with the tune.
best sort of place to get one?
was thinking must be able to save circa 1k in labour costs by buying yourself. The only thing being as mine is on a 56 reg its still under the manufacturers warranty for another year and i think Vauxhall would tell me to do one!
any idea where you can get an aftermarket warranty for modified cars?
Best is a suitcase on holiday. Otherwise you could talk to RapidGB about a PWR or Magnusson kit. Then there are the Harrops. Thats Pd blowers, else you can look at the Capa.com.au centrifugal kits, which should give more peak power, though not as much down low until they spool up. Best to do the sums first.
Suitcase full of efilive and innovate stuff from the USA a couple of weeks ago, plus last time a Fast90 intake. A few years ago I brought a set of front disk brakes in carry on luggage. Nothing is impossible, just expect weird stares.
Though not as bad as trying to take my shotgun into carry on luggage at Rome airport. I blame the staff who didnt direct me to the right place
Though not as bad as trying to take my shotgun into carry on luggage at Rome airport. I blame the staff who didnt direct me to the right place
Edited by ringram on Wednesday 19th November 10:17
racebreed1 said:
Centrifugal blowers have their place, just not on my car! Drive a car with a PD type blower, and one with a centrifugal before you spend out.
Magnacharger is an easy install and way time is going if I want to get mine fitted anytime soon I'm going to have to do it myself, been lying on the floor for the last 4.5 months. Anytime I thought I had time to head south to get it fitted something has come up. If you go to the Magnacharger website you can download their fitting instructions as a pdf and basically if you can use a spanner you can install it. Think they even ship it with a programmer loaded with a base tune to get you going but you'd still want it fine tuned by RapidGB or Monkfish etc to get most out of it.
If you want it done properly get a 2bar tune. Any research on the topic will confirm that as the best approach to forced induction tuning. That requires replacing the stock 1bar map sensor with a 2+ bar unit. Otherwise the engine only ever see's a maximum of 1 bar pressure and has no clue about pressures in excess of that. My 2p.
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