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Chris VR6nos

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  1. Kev, The Vortech is a centrifugal compressor and flings the air out to the edges and has the lowest heating rates of all. The software controlls the timing and thus the detonation, so no probs but water injection is a further safety opyion if going to hi boosts. The Z-charger has been discontinued for many reasons. One reason the EIP turbo spins up so quickly is 'cos the Nos doubles the outlet gas volume and gives the turbo a fast spin up. Nitrous, the way forward! Mine is great and a good entry level kit is about £450
  2. Watch out he's been watching 'Fast and the Furious' again :wink:
  3. ;-) 'nuff said! You'll be wanting some money from me soon? Tom.
  4. Come on Jet you're needed to be seen as supportive to the board members, bend man bend! LOL
  5. Sorry, I was going to add, you can ask Andy C6 SVR how he finds his as that is one i did just before he bought the car.
  6. I was going to do this and sell the journal on eBay but will try it out on you first! :D How about getting one from a scrap yard and posting it to me then you just change it one Saturday morning while having a cup of coffee! Will have to discuss what price level to agree on so you feel comfortable and it is worth the effort for me, covering mig wire & gas, angle & bench grinding discs and sweat etc!!
  7. i'm thinking of doing a photo journal of converting your std gear-stick into a quick-shift one, whoul this be of interest to ppl or not really? Plus i could do the conversion on an exchange basis if that was a better option! Offer your opinion please.
  8. Kev, I had a 47min conversation to dwane at EIP(Technical support) and forced induction was the topic his VR6 Golf runs 680bhp at the wheels but he uses forged pistons good for 1000bhp & Titanium & Chromolibdinium peened rods, it's also rebored to over 3.1L and uses 50bhp jets of nitrous that will yeald around 100bhp output and lots more trickery but with a price tag of over £18,000 you'd expext this result, oh I forgot the ultra-lite flywheel & thier own hardened gearset 6speed box. He said my setup is really good and was surprisingly cheap for all i got, but he did try selling me a turbo conversion! :lol: Dwane said the standard pistons are good & reliable at around 300bhp so with me using standard pistons at the moment & the Nitrous, I'm taking the engine in my own hands! :twisted: The turbo lag is very present, don't be fooled, a supercharger has NONE! All Dragsters use S/chargers on the strip for that reason and some are over 1,400bhp & more. think they might use forged pistons! lol :lol: I can get a good price on 1000bhp forged items if your interested in some?
  9. Hi Too Hot, Good to hear of your interest, the first post kinda says it all really, just need to get some serious parties that have the funding to go for it! It transformes the drive & enjoyment of the car and can say that many people spend much more for much less gain plus if you drive it nicely the supercharger will help bring better mpg too!! Only a part of the kit is pictured above and is very comprehensive in total. All good :lol: :lol: Fancy buying some DVDs? Hows the sale going Tom? much saved up towards your charger fund m8? :D
  10. Joe, the stageI kit is that price at retail but hope you can sell your car so you can get a cracking price for the kit and leave enough to go for stage II and still have cash spare from £3000.
  11. I believe mostly that the problems arose using the Z-engineering charger that has been discontinued for that reason & the same company have adopted the Vortech one for that very reason! Good filtration is essential and this can cause failures but that is upto the care of the owner! Direct experience with this Vortech charger has shown it to be capable of taking what you can throw at it :D
  12. The Supercharging the super coupe thread has been very popular and has one of the highest replies on the board at the moment so obviously there is a lot of interest in this modification, which leads me to suggest that if there would be enough interest from you to create a group buy to bring the price into realistic budgets. Vortech are the most reputed manufacturer for centrifugal superchargers and are renound as being 'Bullet-Proof' and ultimately reliable. Andy (C6 SVR) has an early kit and is astounded with the power (ask him, Hope you don't mind mate). His kit was £4500 fitted although he was extremely fortunate and bought the car with all of the work done, good one Andy! Bear in mind that the retail price for the kit is around £3,100 all-in from VF engineering. If a group-buy with about 3-5 people was put together, the cost could be brought down to just over £2,000. Would you be interested in the kit at this price? More details on price & kit spec will follow soon, please take time to express your interest and post questions either in here or the Supercharging the super coupe topic.
  13. will soon when i get it back from the garage next week but can't right now, but just look for the spot welds that hold the skind together. Can't remember but when you get the kit, thread a die onto the stub that comes with it and drill one sise down, thats what i dod, 7mm rings a bell!! The fixing is solid and doesn't move or flex, I'd do it for you if you were closer :-) I'll post a few pics when the car comes back ok?
  14. Quote: "If you think you could of lost me with that passenger in the back then you are sorely mistaken!!!" This be fighting talk in this here forum!!!!! :twisted:
  15. Darren, They are great, you lift it maybe 2/3 up and it takes it all the way it's self and much higher than the strut allows and stays strong against wind pushing on it and looks good!
  16. I wish more ppl would put details like where they are in the country etc. just out of interest. I was told of someone that used oxy/accetalene to heat the springs to loose thier tension and lower the car! It wasn't long before he had to change the springs :lol: People eh!! Knowledge is power, a little knowledge is dangreous!
  17. Oh Hi Tom, just put 2+2 together there (msm) the problem is that the kit is over 20kg plus customs have millions of prices against serial nimbers so they know the price without asking but i do take your point. The best option is if a group buy was in force then i could negotiate a very much better price even just on 3 kits. I had orders for 6 kits when ordering mine so the single duty & carriage was split + a good discount was realised! My insurance went fron £640 to £964 bugger! Admiral but wouldn't deal with them again after the hassle I & others have had with them! What's your thoughts, can I hear cogs turning? catch me on msn & i'll tell you more in a conversation, do you have a mic?
  18. Hi Menace, This is something i found & did, it gave a considerable difference and caused no problems on the 1.8 engine! Starting, accelleration and MPG were all improved with no sacrifice. I had the head skimmed by 1mm, this doesn't sound a lot and is well within tollerances but does increase the compression ratio significantle and used with the affore mentioned mods and Optimax 98.6ron fuel, you will notice a big difference!
  19. I have to agree, I think the all clear ones maybe a bit much. Most of the Supercharging posts have been edited into Pau1's Supergharging Topic, so enjoy continuing it there & the In-Pro topic will be happy to be free! :-)
  20. VR6, yip your quite right, it is pretty straight forward and companies rely upon the black magic notion that it is so special and rare that it has to be done by a professional, but any capable person should be able to & enjoy fitting the kit. The Eprom is maybe the most delicate part of the fitting and also is static sensitive so be careful, but yeah go for it and save £1000 plus gain the satisfaction of knowing a little black-magic yourself! Chris
  21. Well a good nitrous system will cost about £550 and a company will charge you £1200 for the kit & fitting (Turbo-Packs in Peterlee) Taking liberties!! ! hour will fit it so where are they getting that price from? :?
  22. This topic gathered some speed but needed a topic in it's own right, so to pull it out of the In-Pro topic and enjoy continuing it here! Chris
  23. Blown, the VR's are becoming scarely cheap at the moment and are 190bhp before you touch then and mine gets an effortless 34mpg & higher on the motorway! Mad for a 2.9 V6 but good and the noise well nuff said although mine is different withe the Vortech charger and even more interesting! 8) Joe, I got the Stage I kit but am waiting for the Stage II parts to come next week :D Also got an Ultra-lite flywheel to make it rev like a motorbike. About £3k ukp will buy the kit, remenber you have to add 1mport duty then vat then handling & package charges to that here in the UK :? Fitting is good fun and if you start on a Saturday morning you should be out thrashing ppl on the Saturday night Woo-Hoo! :twisted:
  24. Have we mentioned price???
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