Crazy Supercharger idea

[Milkboot]

Well I am finally getting around to doing the fun stuff on my E34 and i have a friend that suggested i take one of his spare Eaton M90 superchargers from his T-birds. I am getting tons and tons and tons of measurements from him in the next few days to see if anything would be close enough to finish idea about this all.

Just wondering if anyone else has toyed with the idea of using one of these M90's or even the ones from Buick's.

[winfred]

the e30 guys run them, i am not too wild about them but with enough plumbing you can make them work, check out the supercharging link on the e30tech.com forums

[repenttokyo]

if it does work, then it could be a good diy solution, those sc's are a dime a dozen at scrapyards - but I have been cautioned that they might not blow hard enough to make significant power - that is just what I have heard, however.

[RallyD]

if it doesn't blow hard it would definitely suck

had to

[ROBMPULSE]

if it does work, then it could be a good diy solution, those sc's are a dime a dozen at scrapyards - but I have been cautioned that they might not blow hard enough to make significant power - that is just what I have heard, however.

JUST GET A SMALLER PULLEY!!!!!!

[Dash01]

What about the Benz superchargers, often sold on eBay for not much dough?

[repenttokyo]

What about the Benz superchargers, often sold on eBay for not much dough?

a friend of mine's race team is sponsored by Renntech, and he says that there is a dumpster behind their garage filled to the brim with stock MB superchargers - definitely a glut in the market.

[Milkboot]

I did see one forsale that was a clutched supercharger, I thought that was kinda of bad ass, but while at work, Snakeyes and i thoguht to ourselves, if the impellers are not moving when its off, how does air pass through?


We were thinking maybe it just slows it down enough to where its not putting any pressure more then normal in the intake.

[Milkboot]

Yeah, I talked to a benz guy at work and he said he didnt like them too much, but he also said it would be kind of sacreligious to put one of thier superchargers on a BMW :P

[Milkboot]

Hahaha, that one made my day