Hopefully I can get Doward to chip in here. I have been reading all kinds of things on supercharge this and that but what im wondering is could i possibly take a turbo and turn it inot a supercharger and what would it take?? flame suit on and fire extinguisher in place....................
Turning turbo into a supercharger???
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i'm sure it's possible, but all the time/work/money to do such a thing isn't reasonable; it'd be easier to just fit an existing supercharger onto the 7M (at least i THINK...)
maybe someone with a little more knowledge will clean up my statement
maybe someone with a little more knowledge will clean up my statement
replace the hotside with some pulley and run it in the front of the car.
main diff between turbo and super charger is turbo is exhaust driven and supercharger is belt driven.. so super charger has to be mounted in the front where all the belts are running. Turbo can be mounted anywhere as long as there is enough exhaust flow to spin it.
There is a supercharger kit made for the IS300 back in the days by area51 which uses the vortech V1 supercharger unit.
my maxima is running the V2 kit.
main diff between turbo and super charger is turbo is exhaust driven and supercharger is belt driven.. so super charger has to be mounted in the front where all the belts are running. Turbo can be mounted anywhere as long as there is enough exhaust flow to spin it.
There is a supercharger kit made for the IS300 back in the days by area51 which uses the vortech V1 supercharger unit.
my maxima is running the V2 kit.
You're talking about a centrifugal supercharger (Vortech type)
You'll need a step up gearbox and yes it will still suffer Lag like a turbo (not as bad but nothing like the response of a roots type blower)
Pretty much the worst of both worlds the only + I can see is they're usually easier to mount up.
You'll need a step up gearbox and yes it will still suffer Lag like a turbo (not as bad but nothing like the response of a roots type blower)
Pretty much the worst of both worlds the only + I can see is they're usually easier to mount up.
i understand that much but you need some kind of a drive pulley system and i was wondering how i would go about that.............
http://www.vortechsuperchargers.com/category_browser.php?level=1&ln=SUPERCHARGERS
bam, example ^___^ Instead of having a shaft and bearings it has gears... belt turns the pulleys which has gears on the other ends that turns the other gears on the compressor. It's still uses oil lines to lubricates and cools the gears inside. wheeee fun
bam, example ^___^ Instead of having a shaft and bearings it has gears... belt turns the pulleys which has gears on the other ends that turns the other gears on the compressor. It's still uses oil lines to lubricates and cools the gears inside. wheeee fun
Well you need some way of overdriving it at least 10:1, your pullies/belts could maybe do 2:1 so you'd need a step up box of at least 5:1 after the belt drive and some way to connect this to the Turbo Compressor section.
It would also need some sort of lubrication system and precision bearings and balance to cope with the 70,000 rpm shaft speeds.
All in all unless you have a very well equipped machine shop it's not going to happen.
It would also need some sort of lubrication system and precision bearings and balance to cope with the 70,000 rpm shaft speeds.
All in all unless you have a very well equipped machine shop it's not going to happen.
ok sorry should have been more specific...........basically take the cold side of the turbo from a CT-26 find some way to seal it attach gears and a pulley to work where the ac compressor sits and bam your done sorta
grandfather has access to a full machine/fab shop where he works iJ and his boss owes me a favor or two so i dont think he would mind much
grandfather has access to a full machine/fab shop where he works iJ and his boss owes me a favor or two so i dont think he would mind much
yeah sorry i was working on typignt hat while you posted it........think it could work fine??? or should i just skip all the head ache and go full turbo???
The bearings won't handle the stress of the belt tensioner, IIRC. The superchargers I've handled (ATI D series) have some ridiculously beefy bearings.