Yannis

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I have been looking at some superchargers and i was wondering what is involved in fitting one and if my 2.25 engine would be strong enough to take one?
 
quite a lot , yer can't just glue it on to the top of yer carbabtooter.
yer need to fit a decent leccy fuel pump, install a fuel press regulator, sort out the drive ratio fer the blower and drop yer comp ratio, just for starters
 
Apart from the obvious blowing your engine up(pardon the pun) It'd probably take as much power to turn the thing as you'd get from it so net gain = not very much.
 
As Slob says, plus manifold issues, do you run the blower before of after the carb. run if before and manifold issues and carb adjustment are a nightmare. run it under the carb and you've got wet fuel rather than a mist going into the engine, plus the carb is cold. Better to fuel inject the motor also.The block will probably take the strain, but you'll blow the tops off of the pistons, but you'd probably have to find alternative pistons to drop the compression ratio also.
Then you'd have to look at the drivetrain, in order to deal with the increase in power. Supercharged Rover V8 is probably the easiest way to go as the parts are on the shelf and fit RR gearbox and axles. Big money to do it though.
 

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