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SC14spinning backwards?
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Sat, 08 May 2004 08:44
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Ok guys, i have an SC14, that i want to put on my honda civic. Now the problem arises that honda engines spin in the wrong direction. will the SC14 still work spinning the opposite way to normal if i just change which side i use as inlet and outlet?
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I supported Toymods
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Brisbane
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May 2002
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Re: SC14spinning backwards?
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Sat, 08 May 2004 08:49
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No.
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Brisbane
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June 2003
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was adelaide now newcastle
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February 2003
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Re: SC14spinning backwards?
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Sat, 08 May 2004 23:20
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(100 stars for largest quote of the year!!!)
anyhoo, why would this be?, i assume it would work but probably not to the best of its abilities.
what type/model of civic is it going on.....space may prove a bigger problem.
matty.
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Melbourne
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September 2002
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Re: SC14spinning backwards?
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Sat, 08 May 2004 23:48
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Just an idea, but if your going to all the trouble of fitting a supercharger to your car obviously your will need to fabricate brackets and possibly another pulley on the crank to goto the charger.
Why not run two extra pulleys, one above the charger one below so the belt runson the other side of the s/c pulley.
Talk to an engineer, im sure you could come up with a better idea than running the charger backwards.
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Brisbane
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September 2003
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Re: SC14spinning backwards?
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Sun, 09 May 2004 12:35
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SC12/SC14 are Rootes type superchargers. They are air pumps. If you run a pump backwards it pumps the other way. I don't know how easy it is to swap in and out on the Toyota SC's. The other problem may be the gearing that joins the two rotors - it probably won't like turning backwards (helical cut gears and reversed thrust angles = bad).
As others have suggested there may be solutions involving reversed drives etc but why torture yourself - just put a turbo on it.
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Melbourne
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May 2002
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Re: SC14spinning backwards?
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Sun, 09 May 2004 12:41
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better yet piss off the honda and get a toyota 
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Canberra
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November 2003
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Melbourne
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August 2003
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Re: SC14spinning backwards?
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Thu, 27 May 2004 10:30
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From CAA?
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Brisbane
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June 2003
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Re: SC14spinning backwards?
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Thu, 27 May 2004 10:32
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why would u bother with a 1982 civic..no offense!
Cant your money be better spent?
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ADELAIDE - The Drift City
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July 2002
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Re: SC14spinning backwards?
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Thu, 27 May 2004 10:47
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Swap the gears all you want, they drive the rotors which compress the air to give you boost. now these rotors are designed to spin ONE way and one way only.... So running them backwardas is fraught with danger.
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| VL_Commy wrote on Thu, 27 May 2004 12:30 |
ok well i finally found this thread again.
this shows the gears of an sc12. If i switched the sides that the gear are on and ran the unit backwards, would it be fine then??
the car is a 1981 2nd gen civic. Theres enough room to mount the blower, but the damn engine spins the wrong way.
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Carlingford, Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: SC14spinning backwards?
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Thu, 27 May 2004 11:17
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just do it and send us pic when u have
1 way to try things....
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