Remote Single/Twin Supercharger setup
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I think I might do that, no idea why i never thought of that. one of the many reasons I posted this on here(looking for great and useful insight)
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Wow, where to begin...
First off, a remote setup will work fine. Give it a go. If you can mount it solidly and inline with the crank, everything will work fine
Remote setups allow for easy use of an ATA intercooler and plenty of pipe to mount a meth kit if desired
The ford blowers are all self contained units, so mount them anywhere the fit your chassis and let it spin. T-bird M90s are the only ones without a built in bypass valve. Use a Saab/bosche unit with them. They can be angled or flipped without consequence
The whine come from air being compressed in the SC. Mount the TB downstream and the SC will whine constantly. Mount it to the SC and it will be quieter out of throttle, but the increased plenum will reduce throttle response
50% decrease in efficiency is totally false. If anything the overall efficiency can be bolstered by a better intercooler not restricted to what you can fit under the head unit
First off, a remote setup will work fine. Give it a go. If you can mount it solidly and inline with the crank, everything will work fine
Remote setups allow for easy use of an ATA intercooler and plenty of pipe to mount a meth kit if desired
The ford blowers are all self contained units, so mount them anywhere the fit your chassis and let it spin. T-bird M90s are the only ones without a built in bypass valve. Use a Saab/bosche unit with them. They can be angled or flipped without consequence
The whine come from air being compressed in the SC. Mount the TB downstream and the SC will whine constantly. Mount it to the SC and it will be quieter out of throttle, but the increased plenum will reduce throttle response
50% decrease in efficiency is totally false. If anything the overall efficiency can be bolstered by a better intercooler not restricted to what you can fit under the head unit
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Wow, where to begin...
First off, a remote setup will work fine. Give it a go. If you can mount it solidly and inline with the crank, everything will work fine
Remote setups allow for easy use of an ATA intercooler and plenty of pipe to mount a meth kit if desired
The ford blowers are all self contained units, so mount them anywhere the fit your chassis and let it spin. T-bird M90s are the only ones without a built in bypass valve. Use a Saab/bosche unit with them. They can be angled or flipped without consequence
The whine come from air being compressed in the SC. Mount the TB downstream and the SC will whine constantly. Mount it to the SC and it will be quieter out of throttle, but the increased plenum will reduce throttle response
50% decrease in efficiency is totally false. If anything the overall efficiency can be bolstered by a better intercooler not restricted to what you can fit under the head unit
First off, a remote setup will work fine. Give it a go. If you can mount it solidly and inline with the crank, everything will work fine
Remote setups allow for easy use of an ATA intercooler and plenty of pipe to mount a meth kit if desired
The ford blowers are all self contained units, so mount them anywhere the fit your chassis and let it spin. T-bird M90s are the only ones without a built in bypass valve. Use a Saab/bosche unit with them. They can be angled or flipped without consequence
The whine come from air being compressed in the SC. Mount the TB downstream and the SC will whine constantly. Mount it to the SC and it will be quieter out of throttle, but the increased plenum will reduce throttle response
50% decrease in efficiency is totally false. If anything the overall efficiency can be bolstered by a better intercooler not restricted to what you can fit under the head unit
I figure ill get the project parts and planning and some progress and hopefully then it will come off less like a wild dream. Right now trying to pick up the s/c, spare hood, some more piping, and figuring where the easiest point to mount for least work will be.
I still think im going to mount it on the passenger side, just because I dont want to block my view on the driver side if I can avoid it any. It will also force me to clean up my engine bay alittle bit which is already on the to do list.
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Jon (pocket) is a great guy and fabricator. If they're still available, I would highly reccomened hitting him up for one of his pre made kits. I can guarantee you will save a considerable amount of time and probably money too by going this direction. Earlier this year I built a remote mount kit for an lt1 in my Monte Carlo SS. Initially I set out to mount the throttle body to the inlet of the supercharger and found out through a lot of trial, error, money, and time that when running it remote and through an intercooler there is just too much plenum volume to achive a decent idle below 1600 rpms. I eventually moved the throttle body to the stock location and am currently finishing up on some small details. It does make a lot of noise at idle this way because the supercharger is pulling in air completely unrestricted at the inlet, and the bypass valve has to exhaust the unused air back into the inlet side of the supercharger. I recently bought a standard BOV used on the centrifugal style of superchargers and have just started playing with it in an effort to keep the noise down at idle and to help driveability at part throttle. As soon as the rain stops here it is ready to road test.
As far as loosing any advantage of the roots style blowers by remote mounting goes, I've seen in my prior datalogs during road tuning that the map sensor reports -6 psi of vacuum (part throttle cruise pressure) to +10psi of boost in .45 seconds.Although, I've never seen what a traditional style roots setup does in comparison, I felt that it was a decent result.
As far as loosing any advantage of the roots style blowers by remote mounting goes, I've seen in my prior datalogs during road tuning that the map sensor reports -6 psi of vacuum (part throttle cruise pressure) to +10psi of boost in .45 seconds.Although, I've never seen what a traditional style roots setup does in comparison, I felt that it was a decent result.
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I never tried it, but an idea to quiet the remote SC is a twin TB setup. Stock unit with all the sensors in the stock location, then a larger unit, say 102mm off ebay mounted pre-SC. No sensors on the big TB, bump the stop so its constantly open a little, then use a throttle cam setup like one from a Fiero to make a progressive cable system. Therefor, the intake mounted TB acts like a normal TB and the larger TB mounted to the SC only throttles incoming air. If the SC doesnt have much air to compress, it doesnt make any noise and the progressive opening would keep it closed for 90% of standard driving time
Never built it, but did a good bit of brainstorming on the issue
For those wondering, heres my old setup
In the car using the old tensioner bracket. I redesigned it to move the tensioner to the slack side to correct an early design flaw
Pic of the custom balancer hub assembly I designed. It uses a custom cut hub, centering ring, LT1 balancer, stand off spool and inverted 10 rib SBC pulley
How it sits now. If anyone wants it, shoot me a PM
Never built it, but did a good bit of brainstorming on the issue
For those wondering, heres my old setup
In the car using the old tensioner bracket. I redesigned it to move the tensioner to the slack side to correct an early design flaw
Pic of the custom balancer hub assembly I designed. It uses a custom cut hub, centering ring, LT1 balancer, stand off spool and inverted 10 rib SBC pulley
How it sits now. If anyone wants it, shoot me a PM
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I never tried it, but an idea to quiet the remote SC is a twin TB setup. Stock unit with all the sensors in the stock location, then a larger unit, say 102mm off ebay mounted pre-SC. No sensors on the big TB, bump the stop so its constantly open a little, then use a throttle cam setup like one from a Fiero to make a progressive cable system. Therefor, the intake mounted TB acts like a normal TB and the larger TB mounted to the SC only throttles incoming air. If the SC doesnt have much air to compress, it doesnt make any noise and the progressive opening would keep it closed for 90% of standard driving time
Never built it, but did a good bit of brainstorming on the issue
Never built it, but did a good bit of brainstorming on the issue
I actually did a little testing with a dual tb setup. It helped quiet it down at idle but I was concerned with the rate the supercharger tb opened in relation to the intake tb. It felt to me like at part throttle with the bypass closed (making boost) there was a dead spot where maybe the supercharger tb needed to be wide open. This is the only pic I've got of the setup. Basically I used an arm off the supercharger tb to pull open the intake tb. It was crude but worked. I didn't spend much time with that setup after feeling the "dead spot" but it may have been an easy fix with adjusting the length of the arm. I did some idle tuning with the BOV setup yesterday and it seems promising.
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Very interesting. Do you guys have any pics of the piece you bolt to the bottom of the S/C to channel the air to the engine? Intriguing for sure. Were you guys happy with the results?
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I actually did a little testing with a dual tb setup. It helped quiet it down at idle but I was concerned with the rate the supercharger tb opened in relation to the intake tb. It felt to me like at part throttle with the bypass closed (making boost) there was a dead spot where maybe the supercharger tb needed to be wide open. This is the only pic I've got of the setup. Basically I used an arm off the supercharger tb to pull open the intake tb. It was crude but worked. I didn't spend much time with that setup after feeling the "dead spot" but it may have been an easy fix with adjusting the length of the arm. I did some idle tuning with the BOV setup yesterday and it seems promising.
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I'm pretty happy with it. The power is right on tap. Its a little loud but some people like it that way. I'm trying to figure out how to upload pics from my phone right now but I've got an entire build thread with the whole process here...
http://ltxtech.com/forums/showthread...Carlo SS build
I'll try to upload some pics
http://ltxtech.com/forums/showthread...Carlo SS build
I'll try to upload some pics
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I actually did a little testing with a dual tb setup. It helped quiet it down at idle but I was concerned with the rate the supercharger tb opened in relation to the intake tb. It felt to me like at part throttle with the bypass closed (making boost) there was a dead spot where maybe the supercharger tb needed to be wide open. This is the only pic I've got of the setup. Basically I used an arm off the supercharger tb to pull open the intake tb. It was crude but worked. I didn't spend much time with that setup after feeling the "dead spot" but it may have been an easy fix with adjusting the length of the arm. I did some idle tuning with the BOV setup yesterday and it seems promising.Attachment 431505
Curious to see how the BOV works with the rest of the system. I tried a BOV on my M90 setup and it didnt work out so well. Used a bosche (porsche) BPV and it idled and ran great idle/part throttle/WOT. The stock BPV on the M122 never gave me any trouble with managing boost. I ported it to the rear of the intake so when the TB was closed, the intake was in vacuum, so the BPV opened. If mounting the TB to the SC inlet, the BPV must be ported to the neck between the TB and rotors
Very interesting. Do you guys have any pics of the piece you bolt to the bottom of the S/C to channel the air to the engine? Intriguing for sure.
Were you guys happy with the results?
Couldn't you also plumb a large bypass in and remove the tb from the inlet of the blower? It should function the same way..no?
I'm pretty happy with it. The power is right on tap. Its a little loud but some people like it that way.
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Curious to see how the BOV works with the rest of the system. I tried a BOV on my M90 setup and it didnt work out so well. Used a bosche (porsche) BPV and it idled and ran great idle/part throttle/WOT. The stock BPV on the M122 never gave me any trouble with managing boost. I ported it to the rear of the intake so when the TB was closed, the intake was in vacuum, so the BPV opened. If mounting the TB to the SC inlet, the BPV must be ported to the neck between the TB and rotors
What issues did you have with the BOV on your m90 setup?
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The BOV on the m90 was in an elbow next to the sc outlet. It would pop open as it should, but at idle it stayed closed. The sc would continue to pressurize the air to the TB until it over powered the poppet valve or blew a coupler off. The 4" 90* bend at the TB was silicone and would balloon to about 6"
Switching to the external BPV fixed that. I later switched to an aftermarket part to change the spring rate. It didn't seem to do anything
Switching to the external BPV fixed that. I later switched to an aftermarket part to change the spring rate. It didn't seem to do anything