Supercharger

[markh]

Has anyone any experience on fitting a supercharger to a 4.0 v8 (TVR application) Any help would be great

thanks Mark

[davidy]

Haughins ( a former North-west TVR dealer) did a conversion to wedge cars with the Sprintex supercharger.

Try contacting Jasper Guilder (could be on this list) or through the TVRCC, who is probably the most knowledgable on this subject.

davidy

[markh]

thanks David

Mark

[GreenV8S]

quote:Has anyone any experience on fitting a supercharger to a 4.0 v8 (TVR application) Any help would be great

thanks Mark

I have a general idea what is involved - what do you have in mind?

[markh]

Hello Peter
I was trying to discover if any company makes a blower kit for the Chimeara (or similar) I have heard that conversions (RPI on a landrover) have had problems. I like the idea of supercharging (have had two supercharged cars in the past)as way of getting more power from the car, as convetional tuning seems v expensive (as you know) for not a grat increase in performance. I have had a brake upgrade done (5.0 drilled and groved discs, ebc pads ) so this seems the next stage

thanks Mark

[GreenV8S]

There are a couple of companies doing conversions for V8 Range Rovers, JE Developments are probably the best known but a search for Eaton will show up others. Mark Adams seemed pretty knowledgeable about these, and would be worth talking to if you're seriously interested. Let me know how you get on?

Cheers,
Peter Humphries (and a green V8S)

PS the stories about problems seem to be about supercharging carb installations which are a completely different kettle of fish w.r.t. fuel distribution and so on.

>> Edited by GreenV8S on Tuesday 18th June 18:37

[Graham]

this is where im looking to start..


www.capa.com.au/kits_landrover.htm


already got the big brakes the suspension and the programable ecu...

[Brm Brm]

How did you get on? Just found this thread and would be fascinated to see the results. There is also a company called AJ6 engineering (I think in Macclesfield) who are mainly Jag specialists but they have a subsidiary in Yeovil (AJ6 Superchargers) who apparently have experience with supercharging - including Rover V8s in TVRs - I believe it was them who sourced the original Sprintex superchargers for the Haughins conversions. They now use a Swedish OPCON supercharger with a screw design (inherently more efficient that the old Eaton design). I can probably dig out an address for them if anyone is interested - I may well be talking to them myself at some point - just not yet due to funding constraints!

[Nacnud]

There's a 400SE that comes along to the Bristol Region. A week ago he was two weeks away from installing a supercharger. He's built the engine and has to drop into the Wedge.

Should be really interesting to see what happens.

I don't think the owner posts on PH and I don't know how to get in touch with him. Anyone know who I'm talking about ?

[loudpedal]

Interesting thread this.... anyone got any further comments?

[jamieheasman]

Check these guys out :

www.triumphroverspares.com.au/

[350matt]

Those TriumphRover bods are well worth investigating, their prices are pretty cheap! they quote 1290 australian dollars for a pair of wildcat heads which equates to 477 quid! A pair of mod'd rover heads can easily cost more than that. They quote some pretty big power figures for the supercharged 4.6 as well 360Kw = 483Bhp!


Matt

[Graham]

the wildcats come out at 6500 asd.....

they are building a chimaera twin turbo kit for 12000 asd
or about 4300 quid

[schueymcfee]

Have seen that Dutch guy that supercharged his 3.5 SD1? IIRC he was gradually trying to wind up the boost to 6-7 psi, but even at 0.7psi he was pushing 300+bhp!

He goes into great detail about how to do it, and the problems incurred.
I've got the address somewhere - here it is -

www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Show/2505/

[jvaughan]

this months landrover world mag has an article about a supercharged 4.6 in a defender 90!

they say its cheaper to buy big than to upgrade these days.

Jason