Toymods Car Club Inc: Tech & Conversions => 18rc + Supercharger????

Toymods Car Club
www.toymods.org.au

F.A.Q.

Home

Members

Toymods » Tech & Conversions » 18rc + Supercharger???? Show: Today's Posts :: Show Polls Email to friend

Author

Topic

Norbie
Forums Junkie

Location:
Brisbane
Registered:
May 2002

Re: 18rc + Supercharger????

Wed, 31 July 2002 02:42

GIN51E wrote on Wed, 31 July 2002 7:50 AM

but i would never modify an engine myself as the cost involved would be huge.

And yet you're talking about supercharging an old carby engine? Dude, that definitely counts as a "modification" - and a pretty big one at that!

I see in your list of mods above that your engine has a "mild street cam". I wouldn't mind betting it has plenty of overlap, which means it's quite unsuitable for use with forced induction. In other words, you'd have to replace your cam to make it work properly with a supercharger. On top of that, your "bigger pistons" more than likely have a pretty high compression ratio, which once again is not going to work well with forced induction - especially since you can't run an intercooler.

To put it simply, it's going to take a lot of work and a LOT of money to make this happen, even if you do all the work yourself. And if you pay someone else to do it - ouch. Even off-the-shelf kits are anywhere from $5-10k installed, but a custom setup would cost way more than that. At the end of the day, an engine swap will cost less and work much better.

But hey, it's your money, do whatever you like...

[Report message to a moderator]

[Message index]

-=] Back to Top [=-

Current Time: Sun Jul 27 20:40:15 UTC 2025

Total time taken to generate the page: 0.010571002960205 seconds

.:: Contact :: Home ::.