Supercharging a Rover V8

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Originally Posted by sclarke

No its what i wanted to hear.

But i would like to know what others have done and the Pro's and Cons.
What has been done to yours??
What blower? What fuel system are you running? Where did you get the manifold from?

I have a book on Turbo's and Blowers From the days when i used to play with Turbo Volvo's

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Eaton M90, SS commodore pump, malpassi adjustable reg, the injectors are capable of making like 150hp, which it wont make on 5psi, so to go 10 psi, new injectors, the manifold came with it, but could have one machined up, but it doesn't matter, because it will be lucky to make 200hp at 10psi, and reliability becomes an issue as it superheats the air charge, good for torque and a 4x4 (the blower, not hot air), not what you want

Do you really need to spend that much to get 500hp out of a 3.5?

I just thought you changed to an alternate fuel supply to produce the extra power.

Try running it on Bull shoot, the best part there is a lot of it available in this very thread and it's free, you just have to filter the good stuff from the bad. A good Bull shoot filter is the humble mpeg or jpeg file.

it would be running AvGas or Metho.........

So that will help

**** it, GM 471 and big $$$$ on the engine...

This isn't much help but its the best i can do ;)

I have a book called "Tuning Rover V8 Engines" which has a (small) section on superchargers and everything else possible for competition performance (unfortunately just night time reading for me, and dreaming :(). You can borrow it if you want.

Also, Rowan at Midas in Lilydale had a supercharged Rangie ute (think it had a 4.6L in it). Might be of some help.

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Originally Posted by Bulldog

This isn't much help but its the best i can do ;)

I have a book called "Tuning Rover V8 Engines" which has a (small) section on superchargers and everything else possible for competition performance (unfortunately just night time reading for me, and dreaming :(). You can borrow it if you want.

Also, Rowan at Midas in Lilydale had a supercharged Rangie ute (think it had a 4.6L in it). Might be of some help.

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Got that book, but Mick leant it....

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Originally Posted by dobbo

Try running it on Bull shoot, the best part there is a lot of it available in this very thread and it's free,.

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Please enlighten us further as to whos posts appear to be bull shoot?? they all seem pretty relevant:confused:

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Originally Posted by Bulldog

This isn't much help but its the best i can do ;)

I have a book called "Tuning Rover V8 Engines" which has a (small) section on superchargers and everything else possible for competition performance (unfortunately just night time reading for me, and dreaming :(). You can borrow it if you want.

Also, Rowan at Midas in Lilydale had a supercharged Rangie ute (think it had a 4.6L in it). Might be of some help.

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Rowan Canavon, yellow tray?

Clarkie, an Eaton M90 won't pump enough air to make that sort of horsepower without running it well in excess of the maker's recommended maximum speed. The book by C.Bell that I recommend is 338 pages, also have a look at the supercharging section in Automobile Engineer's Reference Book, Molloy & Lanchester, George Newnes Ltd. Pitstop or Motorbooks should have the first and any tertiary library the second.

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Originally Posted by rovercare

Please enlighten us further as to whos posts appear to be bull shoot?? they all seem pretty relevant:confused:

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When are we going to see a picture, mpeg or anything of this supercharged Rangie of yours?

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Originally Posted by dobbo

When are we going to see a picture, mpeg or anything of this supercharged Rangie of yours?

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Why would I bother, you've already assumed I'm full of ****??