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Well.... here's my latest creation... Supercharged '89 Pathfinder VG30I. Everything is hand fabricated by me in person. It's an Eaton M90 Supercharger (90 cubic inches displacement)... and it runs on an L&P Performance moddified TBI unit and STOCK ECU!!! On a cool day without the air filter, it runs about a 7.2 second 0-60. The hood is still in fabrication, but you'll see a nicely finished cowl induction hood up top in a week or two. I also run open pacesetter headers, which you will hear in the video below. I had to put my old heads back on to drop my compression from ~11:1 (decked heads) back down to ~9:1... and I havent even BEGUN to mod this pair of heads yet. The engine boosts to about 15 psi, according to my speculation... A 3.8L Grand Prix GTP with a belt ratio of 1.87:1 does 8 psi stock... I have a belt ratio of about 2.1:1 on a 3.0L engine which should do about 14-15 psi. Boost guage coming soon. Also an MSD boost retard controller is in the works. The rest of the truck is a mostly stock '89 SE.... but it has the super-rare factory brush guard and roof lights. Click below to see pics and vids! Let me know what you think!!!

http://www.lpperformance.com/Pics%20and%20Vids.htm

 

Lee McQuinn

Mechanical Design Engineer, L&P Performance

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Well.... here's my latest creation... Supercharged '89 Pathfinder VG30I. Everything is hand fabricated by me in person. It's an Eaton M90 Supercharger (90 cubic inches displacement)... and it runs on an L&P Performance moddified TBI unit and STOCK ECU!!! On a cool day without the air filter, it runs about a 7.2 second 0-60. The hood is still in fabrication, but you'll see a nicely finished cowl induction hood up top in a week or two. I also run open pacesetter headers, which you will hear in the video below. I had to put my old heads back on to drop my compression from ~11:1 (decked heads) back down to ~9:1... and I havent even BEGUN to mod this pair of heads yet. The engine boosts to about 15 psi, according to my speculation... A 3.8L Grand Prix GTP with a belt ratio of 1.87:1 does 8 psi stock... I have a belt ratio of about 2.1:1 on a 3.0L engine which should do about 14-15 psi. Boost guage coming soon. Also an MSD boost retard controller is in the works. The rest of the truck is a mostly stock '89 SE.... but it has the super-rare factory brush guard and roof lights. Click below to see pics and vids! Let me know what you think!!!

http://www.lpperformance.com/Pics%20and%20Vids.htm

 

Lee McQuinn

Mechanical Design Engineer, L&P Performance

 

lee, what happened to all the m90 stuff on your website? and hows the kit coming?

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Much like Elvis, Lee has left the building. At least left the building of a S/C kit to someone else. He's apparently moved to Detroit and is working for FoMoCo. The Pathy is retired and the kit now belongs to another member of this board with the understanding that no design info would be given to anyone. The kit reportedly will be installed on the new owner's wife's HB, so maybe we'll get some pics.

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Much like Elvis, Lee has left the building. At least left the building of a S/C kit to someone else. He's apparently moved to Detroit and is working for FoMoCo. The Pathy is retired and the kit now belongs to another member of this board with the understanding that no design info would be given to anyone. The kit reportedly will be installed on the new owner's wife's HB, so maybe we'll get some pics.

i have a few pics and a few of the videos that lee emailed me a few years ago on his supercharger project, if anybody is interested, let me know and i can send them to you........

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Much like Elvis, Lee has left the building. At least left the building of a S/C kit to someone else. He's apparently moved to Detroit and is working for FoMoCo. The Pathy is retired and the kit now belongs to another member of this board with the understanding that no design info would be given to anyone. The kit reportedly will be installed on the new owner's wife's HB, so maybe we'll get some pics.

 

that sneaky lil bastard! had no clue HE was the one that bought it.

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that sneaky lil bastard! had no clue HE was the one that bought it.

 

here are some links to the videos that Lee sent me before he left L&P:

http://www.bitemedoughboy.com/videos/Super...IPathfinder.WMV

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http://www.bitemedoughboy.com/videos/Super...IPathfinder.WMV

http://www.bitemedoughboy.com/videos/89PathBurn.wmv

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http://www.bitemedoughboy.com/videos/89PathBurn.wmv

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The Pathy is retired and the kit now belongs to another member of this board with the understanding that no design info would be given to anyone. The kit reportedly will be installed on the new owner's wife's HB, so maybe we'll get some pics.

 

I'd reverse engineer it...change it a lil bit make a kit and sell...or possibly even just get a drawing set together and sell them for like $20 a shot until it gets posted all over the net...

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