superchargers, anyone try a vortec style?

[tx_flatlander]

So like alot of people here, ive been looking for a good bit more power out of my rig. I have seen L&P's Eataon blower...seems like a crapload of not only bracketry work, but manifold work as well. Not to mention kiss changing your spark plugs goodbye w/o taking the thing off.

 

Ive seen several of the vortec style S/C's and they seem like theyd be much easier to fab up. I would think going the way like L&P did and robbing off of the AC portion of the damper..maybe even using the AC bracket area to hold the S/C itself. For those of you not that famalier, the vortec looks like a turbo, and really IS a turbo which has its "hot" side being driven by a belt and not exhaust. Then you simply run your piping to your TB. So really, the worst of it is mounting, but no mani fabrication and relocating the TB and all that mess.

 

 

Ok ok, with all that in mind, im sure youd need bigger injectors, but what about a computer? Would our computer start freaking out at the first sign of a (+) mani pressure? If so could we use something like a missing link (used in turbo application of NA cars)?

[89_trailboss]

well, do you have a MPFI or a TBI?

 

a vortec wont work. there simply is no place to put it. and making adaptors for the SC-intake man. isnt all that hard. the pics and videos on LP's site are using steel adaptors, which are much easier and cheaper then making aluminium.

 

if you have a TBI, a roots style charger is way easier IMO.

 

there is a guy in my city that has transplanted a VG30ET into a first gen, TBI pathfinder. ill go find pics of it right now for you.

[89_trailboss]

 

 

[88pathoffroad]

Now there's determination! Coolness! Nice work on the stainless piping.

 

Not TBI, tho. It's MPFI. I'm diggin' the custom fuel rail with crimped brass fittings, too. I bet that thing'll never need replacing again. I wonder if the turbo is only going to be run off the right bank of cylinders, or if it's going to be piped around the back from the other side.

 

I also hope they get a heat bag or insulation on the hot side of the turbo or it may melt the radiator in it's current position.

 

I wouldn't write off a Vortec style supercharger. If you have the time, determination and talent you can do most anything you want to a vehicle. Look at Monster Garage.

[89_trailboss]

88, theres a whole thread on your favarite site. ill snag the URL.

 

and that truck WAS a TBI. its an 87 with a complet VG30ET swap from an 84 zipzap.

[89_trailboss]

http://www.4x4parts.com/ubbthreads/showfla...=0&fpart=1&vc=1