I was wondering if anyone has retro fitted a supercharger off another car onto their S. A mate took me out for a spin in his 205 gti yesterday which he had transplanted a mi16 engine in a few years ago. Over the last few months he has fitted a supercharger off a mini cooper s. He made all the brackets and pulleys himself on a lathe and milling machine and fitted a stand alone engine ecu. It now produces 253bhp and my god its scary.

Anyway enough of the 205 as i don't think you want to read about it. I was just curious if anyone has done this to their S already. I really want to charge my S but don't want to pay the silly amount for ones made the S. All together it cost my mate under £1000 to do his which is really cheap for the power gain. I know it would cost more to charge the S but I still think it could be done fairly cheaply with good results.

matty

 

Would be an interesting project , it would definetly be possible but you'd end up making bits like your mate.

I dont know of anybody on here or US side, perhaps a garett turbo could be retrofitted i know this is not a supercharger but you get the idea.

Its funny because me and my mate were dicusssing this a few months back and theres a few turbos lying about in his workshop.

 

Secondhand setup would be about 2k.

I doubt you could do it too much cheaper once you have bought a blower, belt, fuel pump and made your own brackets. Plus you need engine management.

Other option is wait until a S/C car comes up for sale, buy it, and sell yours?

 

Exactly, a standalone ecu would cost around £500-900 new or second hand unless you get a piggyback *cough* *cough* greddy.

With the computech packages you get a an ECM module thing.

 

Thanks for the advise guys looks like it could prove very costly think I might have to rethink. It would be a great project and acheivment though. The manufacturing side of it would cost me nothing as I'm an engineer and could make all brackets and pulleys etc at work.

Matty

 

Ive had a 205 mi16 too!!! I cant get my head round the SC too! its a good idea but feck me the fitment must be tighter that a gnats clam.

 

fitting it is not the issue if you have access to a decent work shop, you would need to find an SC with the right boost curve to suit an engine that revs to 9K then as others have said change injectors and fuel pump then buy something like the AEM FIC unit, not the best but a workable solution.
you could always buy the Rotrex in kit form and im sure delete any of the parts you feel you could make yourself to get the price down.

 

The big issue and where most the work goes is designing the brackets and making sure they can with stand the forces applied.
Even the big guys got this wrong on the early ones.

 

It could be an expensive mistake if it did go wrong