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That makes me so happy someone's noticed it! The mount was a sod to machine and I think more time and effort was spent on it than what it looks

So this week's progress has been to machine and fit the charger pulley, machine the front charger bracket (rough - tidy this up later), squeeze the charger into the engine bay leaving room for the jenveys and then made a start on the alternator top bracket which will house an idle pulley.

couple more tie wraps and a bit of gaffer tape and the job will be done

So here we go again....apologies if this is getting a bit boring now lol. This time we've got a gbs zero (Whiz's), an ST170 engine and the good old MP62 charger. I've cleared out the intake side of the engine bay and cut away a chassis diagonal (to be replace with a modified version later). At this stage, it always looks like there's loads of room....until the charger is dropped into position...

I wanted to come but work has sprang a last minute trip to London on me so I'm afraid I'm going to miss this one.......see you all in Feb

Done (my fault as Kirsty did ask where to put it lol)

Great night at dans bolting the charger into the car....

All done now, we start bolting bits into the car tomorrow night...

And what better way to end 2016 than with the traditional kitchen worktop photo of the completed supercharger..... Happy new year!!!!!!

So glad you're safe matey, that's the most important thing........because as sh1t as it is to see that beautiful car smouldering, at the end of the day its only a car and can always be replaced. Looks like Linda will be getting the nurses uniform back out in time for Christmas....every cloud has a silver lining

to be honest if / when i get time to do it, it will probably be an rx8 box as much cheaper

To me, I read that as written permission from swmbo to build my own charger and buy a t5 gearbox!!

Good suggestion ......I will file this one away in the memory banks for future use as I've had similar scenarios as the OP arise myself in the past.

should be there

So that's the charger inlet finished marking the last part of the project complete. Now time to strip it all down for paint and polish!

You may even get a copy this time

That's the last bit of major machining done and what an awkward shape!! Only 1 straight line and the rest are curves!! Times like this I wish I had access to CNC!!!

I disagree and I think it has everything to do with RPM; One cylinder of a 2ltr car engine = 0.5ltr capacity per cylinder per stroke. Once cylinder of a 1ltr bike engine = 0.25ltr capacity per cylinder per stroke. The cylinder draws air every other revolution. At 6000 RPM (typical car engine red line), one cylinder on the 2ltr engine would be drawing 1500 ltrs of air per minute through the carb barrel. At 13000 RPM (red line figure of a cbr1000), one cylinder on the 1ltr engine would be drawing 1625 ltrs of air per minute through the carb barrel. So by my understanding, bike carbs are able to handle the mass air flow rate that a car would put them under. Fuelling on the other hand - for every intake stroke, whilst the bike carb can provide enough air as calc'd above, the car engine would also need more fuel due to it's larger cylinder capacity (for every suck, it can get all the air it needs but not enough fuel), which to me explains the reason why the jets on bike carb need adjusting / enlarging to suit a car applications. Lets face it, if people didn't get acceptable results from bike carbs, they would be as common on car engines as they are currently.

Great news mate!!!

Bob....put your glasses on mate.....there is a V8 squeezed in there although at a squinted glance at the right angle, the rv8 injection plenum does look a bit like the top of a pinto...

Absolutely stunning mate! Can't wait to hear it live

Man flu slowed things down for a week or so but not far to go now! After many hours on the milling machine, the outlet is now complete albeit still needing a rub-down and polish. And as usual, all that hard work will be hidden at the bottom of the engine bay!

I use aluminium warehouse as well as prices are good.........however the only downside is they seem to charge £15 delivery on every order,be it small quantity of large quantities. Best thing is to order everything you need in 1 go so you only pay 1 delivery charge.

Hi Andy, If you need any help or want to come over for a cupppa and look around my installation, you're more than welcome.

Alan, you're quite right and it's something I've been meaning to sort but keep forgeting or something else on the forum crops up which draws my attention away..... Ivan, regards your comment regards deleting post - the club forum held a vote on this 18months (or so) ago and we have implemented what was voted for (you can only delete after a set amount of time from post but I can't remember exactly how long that time period is). Regards the photo size - to be honest your post is the first I've seen complaining about the current set-up. I'm not sure what's involved in changing the forum or the extent of others feeling the same as yourself?