Hasse
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| posted on 22/8/02 at 06:34 AM |
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Supercharged X-flow?
Hello builders!
I have been monitoring this list for a while and got some very usefull information, and now I have a question on my own.
Have anybody considered to use a supercharger on the 1600 X-flow to get some extra bhp in a "simple" way.
Provided that the blower is cheap and you are prepared to put some time/work into the plumbing, it might be a "cost effective" way to some bhp?
Any comments on how the X-flow would take about 0.3bar, os so, of charginging preassure? My idea was to get 100-110 bhp with as little "expensive
work" as possible.
Please enjoy my poor English, I´m a swede.
Regards
/Hasse
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James
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| posted on 22/8/02 at 08:37 AM |
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Hey, your English is better than my Swedish so don't worry! 
Come to think of it- your English is better than a lot of English people here so be proud!
Cheers,
James
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 22/8/02 at 04:22 PM |
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like the blower bit, not sure i would use a xflow though, but hey, each to his own......a cheaper option would be NOS........ 
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Horace
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| posted on 6/9/02 at 06:20 PM |
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Send me your email and I can send you some pictures of my supercharged xflow Lowcost.
famuel.racing@virgin.net
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dashin_dave
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 posted on 7/9/02 at 09:24 PM |
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if cost is your priority, and your not adverse to dicking around to get one, i'd suggest a blower off a toyota 1g-gze.
i'm not sure here, but in australia, you can get them for about A$300, so 120 GBP, or you can order them direct from japanese scrappers for the price
of postage prettymuch, if you can find one. being a 2.0l designed blower, you could quite comfortably run one with a smaller pulley to accomodate
whatever pressure you want out of a 1600... one of my friends at home threw one on a 3.8 v6 commodore, and with only slightly overdriving it, managed
5psi on an engine THAT big... it was still going last time i spoke to him, and he'd put 25000km ( 15600 miles) on it with no problems.
if you did all the work yourself, blowing through a weber or something, you could possibly do it for a few hundred quid, if you had access to a lathe
ect.. one suggestion for cheap plumbing, make up the pipe shapes you want (from blower to carb, or intercooler if you run one, and from blower to
filter) out of some cheap PVC downpipe type material, then take it to an exhaust stuff, and have them bend it up out of large diameter mild steel
exhaust pipe, (we used 3") and wa-la. you have all your plumbing, mistake free (you know it'll fit coz you'd have test fitted the plastic pipes)
for minimal cost.
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