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just been scanning youtube and it seems theres a cheaper alternative to an off the shelf supercharger kit (which the cheapest ive seen is £2000), some people have been fitting superchargers from cars like mini cooper S's etc.

the Eaton M45 supercharger, ive read that people say these are too small but are they?

(others are M90's etc)

obviously they probly take abit of work to get fitted but when i can get hold of a good condition charger for £250 its WAY more within my budget and to be 100% honest i only want 240bhp ish.

what you think?

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right cheers, after every new thread i read i get either more put off or more wanting to do it!

its obviously alot harder/complicated than i thought.

hhmmm, maybe saving for a few more months to get a proper kit second hand would be better.

i wouldnt really want to spend much more than £900 on a second hand kit...

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^^^ What ben says, if your good with metal fabrication and don't mind the time it'll take to fit a 'different' charger to a vr then why not, but if your after something you can bolt on in an afternoon then go for a vr vortex/rotrex kit.

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Right, so I've drawn a little diagram of how I'm thinking the m90 would go

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is this right lol

I would keep the throttle body, fpr etc how it is, maybe add a adjustable fuel regulater later

also probly add an intercooler between the charger & throttle body

i could get the custom brackets made up ok as i got a few mates that are good at welding so thats ok. the hardest part would be mounting the unit to the block (im thinking if i did this properly i may get an old vr6 engine to practice mounting the charger on) also from what ive read an been told on here the belt can be a pig to not slip?

also as a last thing - i really dont want to sound like a broken record here but would an m45 charger defintley not be any good at all? its just i can get hold of one real cheap, ive also noticed someone on youtube has done this with an m45.

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after chatting to my mate at the gym tonight (he can weld and has welder etc and is the guy im getting the vr6 from) ive deceided im definatley going to do this.

we both confident we can make up the custom brackets etc and agreed the only hard part to start with will be getting a good run for the super charger belt, hes confident though that with a custom belt and removing the air con we'll be able to do it!

wont be for a few weeks yet but when ive bought the charger the work will start straight away!

will do a build thread when :-)

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