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Limited Edition 8v Supercharger Kits Available
Have him do a kit for the 16v and I'm in.
Larry
sandiego16v
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From: <nocones77-vw@yahoo.com>
To: "Scirocco-L" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 10:43 PM
Subject: Limited Edition 8v Supercharger Kits Available
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Guess it has been a while since I've posted anything particularly
> interesting, but I figured there might be someone around here who might be
> interested in this news...
>
> Peter Tong, the guy who designed my supercharger system, is putting
> together another (perhaps last?) short run of his kits for the 8v. This is
> NOT a normal commercially-available kit. Peter started designing this for
> his Cabby in the late '90's, just for fun. A couple years ago, he made a
> few (5?) copies of his kit for interested people such as myself....again,
> just for fun. I can't say how happy I've been with it. Now, it seems
> enough people have convinced him to do another batch, so he told me to see
> if any of my friends were interested.
>
> I am receiving nothing for posting this...just passing the info on as an
> "enthusiastic customer/friend".
>
> For those of you who don't know Peter already (he's on Vortex quite a lot)
> or don't know my setup, this is a custom twin-screw supercharger kit based
> upon the Opcon Autorotor compressor. If you've read Corky Bell's
> "Supercharged" book, you've read about it. In fact, Peter has spoken with
> Corky and Kenny Bell in the process of designing his kit, in addition to
> Autorotor themselves. This is the same charger design used on the 500hp
> supercharged AMG Mercedes V8s and the Ford GT (licensed in this case for
> production by Eaton...seems Eaton decided their own aren't good enough!).
> Also sold by Kenney Bell, Flyin' Miata, BBM, and others. Pretty much
> everything is CNC'd out of billet, with a couple of modified OEM VW
> brackets.. It is IMHO beautiful work, and so beefy you could support your
> entire car easily from the main mouting plate.
>
> The kit will cost somewhere around $2500 and basically includes everything
> to physically convert the mechanicals of your engine to mount the
> supercharger. You're left to determine your own intake/boost tubing,
> intercooler arrangement, and engine management. Since it was originally
> designed for a Rabbit/Cabby, it also required a little trimming of the
> bracing under the hood to fit in my Mk1 Scirocco...I don't know if anyone
> has ever mounted one in a Mk2 yet, but I imagine it wouldn't be any worse.
>
> Just to repeat: you are responsible for fabricating your own intake to the
> charger, as well as the boost tubes and whatever intercooler setup you
> desire! Then, you are responsible for making sure it is fueled correctly!
> If you are comfortable swapping to some sort of programmable EFI (Digifant
> 1, Megasquirt, SDS, etc) and can weld some mandrel-bent tubes together,
> you can basically duplicate my arrangement. Or, you can stick with CIS,
> and play Dr. Frankenstein. The choice is yours!
>
> Of course, your results would depend entirely on your installation...there
> are too many parameters! But properly tuned for moderate boost with an
> intercooler on a low-compression 8v, and I don't see any reason why you
> shouldn't expect somewhere around 150whp...at least. That's totally just
> my guesstimate...YMMV, 'natch. But when you think about it, going from 90
> at the *crank* to 150 at the *wheels* (well over 50% increase) would be a
> pretty good bump.
>
> But if you're really wondering what the potential is with a modified
> engine: Peter himself has an engine that is pretty heavily modified, with
> a Eurospec head, a frankenstein CIS system, and a custom intercooler based
> on a 944 Turbo. Personally, I think he's crazy for sticking with CIS, but
> he manages something like 195whp/205wtq with that setup!
>
> As for myself, I run mine on a PG block with Digifant 1 from a Corrado and
> a custom chip from SNS Tuning. I have a *heavily* modified engine (forged
> pistons, balanced, crazy head porting, bigger valves, etc.), an air/water
> intercooler, and produce 235whp/205wtq. That is still on 93 octane pump
> gas and with a couple smaller pulley sizes yet to go. It is currently
> listed as the 2nd highest WHP supercharged non-crossflow 8v engine on the
> Vortex...and higher than just about all the supercharged 16vs I've heard
> too.
>
> Here's Peter's car on Parts4VWs.com:
> http://www.parts4vws.com/registry/registry_detail.asp?MemberCarID=3733
>
> Here's my profile on Parts4VWs.com:
> http://www.parts4vws.com/registry/registry_detail.asp?MemberCarID=212
>
> Here's Peter's website (not much there, really...)
> http://rotorcharged.brinkster.net/
>
> In-car video of my car on an autocross. Only get to open it up a few times
> during the whole run, but hopefully you get the idea...
> http://rotorcharged.brinkster.net/customers%20cars/videos/05MidDivChamps-Neal-Sunday1.wmv
>
> Feel free to email him (address on web links) or I can try to answer
> questions here. Like I said, he just told me to let my friends know he's
> putting together another run of these kits...so here I am, informing my
> friends! :P
>
> Neal
> Twin Screw '77 Scirocco
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