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Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

Sven — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:45:31 GMT

Just out of curiosity...

What HP/torque levels could be reached using conventional (i.e. non-charged) tuning for the same amount of money? For arguments sake let's say from £1500 to £5k which seems to be the range mentioned here.

Using all the available tricks, boring out (possible?), higher revs better bits and so on?

It seems like if you could rev a modified 1.8 Sport engine to 9k (or whatever) with better fueling and perhaps more agressive cams, (bigger bore) and such you could reach similar performance (at least for Power) and possibly much better sound

But how would it affect durability and such?

It seems like BMW fours of similar sizes have a lot of tuning possibilities, is that not the same for the Mx5 engines?

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

Locke-alike — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:08:21 GMT

MX5 Paul:

Just checked this out on the link, sounds awsome, is it a 1.8 or 1.6?? I have been thinking about this for a while. I have a early 1.6. What sort of cost is there?

I use my car as a daily driver/trackday car. Have bittten by the trackday bug. Just bought a set of Federal R-SR's for blyton. Looking forward to it.

Paul

Is that directed at Me? if so then yes ita a 1.8

a home brew kit of a hundred seperate peices..well almost

http://www.mx5oc.co.uk/forum/forums/t/21762.aspx

gives the background

If you have just started doing trackdays do you need the extra power?

I only fitted it because id get held up by RX8's in the corners then the would poon me down the straights...not now they don't

Both Uma and the race car will be at the Blyton Bash so I can take people out and they can get a sense of what the car does different from a standard one.

Once ive got the brakes bled and feeling firmer.

see you then maybe?

Alan

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

kevallen — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:22:35 GMT

MX5 Paul:

Just checked this out on the link, sounds awsome, is it a 1.8 or 1.6?? I have been thinking about this for a while. I have a early 1.6. What sort of cost is there?

I use my car as a daily driver/trackday car. Have bittten by the trackday bug. Just bought a set of Federal R-SR's for blyton. Looking forward to it.

Paul

I see you are still hankering for some extra horses, Paul.

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

MX5 Paul — Wed, 02 May 2012 20:46:44 GMT

Just checked this out on the link, sounds awsome, is it a 1.8 or 1.6?? I have been thinking about this for a while. I have a early 1.6. What sort of cost is there?

I use my car as a daily driver/trackday car. Have bittten by the trackday bug. Just bought a set of Federal R-SR's for blyton. Looking forward to it.

Paul

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

Locke-alike — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:05:32 GMT

i got all my bits for about £1200 and spent £400 getting it fitted (10-12 hours)

£190 getting a good r/road tune.

And it reliable and quick.

I dont think the question should be about which is better, but which suits the way you want the car to drive.

Alan

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

bk65 — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:28:45 GMT

Betty_Swallocks:

I should bloody well hope it is for 5 grand

a bit extravagant i know.....but you can't take it with you !

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

stevetkocz@yahoo.co.uk — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:27:02 GMT

Betty_Swallocks:

bk65:

stevetkocz@yahoo.co.uk:

BBR do a nice kit fitted for about 5 k

...and very nice it is too

I should bloody well hope it is for 5 grand

I'm not far off 5 grand doing mine myself but hey thats part of the fun

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

Betty_Swallocks — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 09:57:38 GMT

bk65:

stevetkocz@yahoo.co.uk:

BBR do a nice kit fitted for about 5 k

...and very nice it is too

I should bloody well hope it is for 5 grand

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

bk65 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:26:29 GMT

stevetkocz@yahoo.co.uk:

BBR do a nice kit fitted for about 5 k

...and very nice it is too

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

stevetkocz@yahoo.co.uk — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:59:47 GMT

Thats turboed and they only do turbos. You can get the Jackson Racing super charger from moss europe for around 3k but then you've got to find someone to install it.

I,ve got a second hand flying miata set up from the nutz forum for £1400 and I'm in the process of fitting it myself but as my car is not a daily driver I've got the time to plod along learning as I go.

Performance 5 is a good place to start if you live in the london area they fit both turbos and superchargers.

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

as400 — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:25:50 GMT

Would that be the turbo?...is the supercharger option any cheaper on a 1.8?

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

stevetkocz@yahoo.co.uk — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:48:40 GMT

BBR do a nice kit fitted for about 5 k

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

as400 — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:23:13 GMT

Any ideas of a ballpark figure for getting a specialist garage to do the work? Is turbocharging about the same cost as supercharging? What are we talking about £1k £5k £10k?

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

bk65 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:39:52 GMT

.....no argument.....supercharge

Re: Turbo or Supercharger?

Mazda-mender — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:23:46 GMT

Supercharge

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