Limited Edition 8v Supercharger Kits Available

[nocones77-vw at yahoo.com (nocones77-vw@yahoo.com)]

Hey guys,
 
 Guess it has been a while since I've posted anything particularly interesting, but I figured there might be someone around here who might be interested in this news...
 
 Peter Tong, the guy who designed my supercharger system, is putting together another (perhaps last?) short run of his kits for the 8v. This is NOT a normal commercially-available kit. Peter started designing this for his Cabby in the late '90's, just for fun. A couple years ago, he made a few (5?) copies of his kit for interested people such as myself....again, just for fun. I can't say how happy I've been with it. Now, it seems enough people have convinced him to do another batch, so he told me to see if any of my friends were interested.
 
 I am receiving nothing for posting this...just passing the info on as an "enthusiastic customer/friend".
 
 For those of you who don't know Peter already (he's on Vortex quite a lot) or don't know my setup, this is a custom twin-screw supercharger kit based upon the Opcon Autorotor compressor. If you've read Corky Bell's "Supercharged" book, you've read about it. In fact, Peter has spoken with Corky and Kenny Bell in the process of designing his kit, in addition to Autorotor themselves. This is the same charger design used on the 500hp supercharged AMG Mercedes V8s and the Ford GT (licensed in this case for production by Eaton...seems Eaton decided their own aren't good enough!). Also sold by Kenney Bell, Flyin' Miata, BBM, and others. Pretty much everything is CNC'd out of billet, with a couple of modified OEM VW brackets.. It is IMHO beautiful work, and so beefy you could support your entire car easily from the main mouting plate.
 
 The kit will cost somewhere around $2500 and basically includes everything to physically convert the mechanicals of your engine to mount the supercharger. You're left to determine your own intake/boost tubing, intercooler arrangement, and engine management. Since it was originally designed for a Rabbit/Cabby, it also required a little trimming of the bracing under the hood to fit in my Mk1 Scirocco...I don't know if anyone has ever mounted one in a Mk2 yet, but I imagine it wouldn't be any worse.
 
 Just to repeat: you are responsible for fabricating your own intake to the charger, as well as the boost tubes and whatever intercooler setup you desire! Then, you are responsible for making sure it is fueled correctly! If you are comfortable swapping to some sort of programmable EFI (Digifant 1, Megasquirt, SDS, etc) and can weld some mandrel-bent tubes together, you can basically duplicate my arrangement. Or, you can stick with CIS, and play Dr. Frankenstein. The choice is yours!
 
 Of course, your results would depend entirely on your installation...there are too many parameters! But properly tuned for moderate boost with an intercooler on a low-compression 8v, and I don't see any reason why you shouldn't expect somewhere around 150whp...at least. That's totally just my guesstimate...YMMV, 'natch. But when you think about it, going from 90 at the *crank* to 150 at the *wheels* (well over 50% increase) would be a pretty good bump.
 
 But if you're really wondering what the potential is with a modified engine: Peter himself has an engine that is pretty heavily modified, with a Eurospec head, a frankenstein CIS system, and a custom intercooler based on a 944 Turbo. Personally, I think he's crazy for sticking with CIS, but he manages something like 195whp/205wtq with that setup!
 
 As for myself, I run mine on a PG block with Digifant 1 from a Corrado and a custom chip from SNS Tuning. I have a *heavily* modified engine (forged pistons, balanced, crazy head porting, bigger valves, etc.), an air/water intercooler, and produce 235whp/205wtq. That is still on 93 octane pump gas and with a couple smaller pulley sizes yet to go. It is currently listed as the 2nd highest WHP supercharged non-crossflow 8v engine on the Vortex...and higher than just about all the supercharged 16vs I've heard too.
 
  Here's Peter's car on Parts4VWs.com:
  http://www.parts4vws.com/registry/registry_detail.asp?MemberCarID=3733
 
 Here's my profile on Parts4VWs.com: 
 http://www.parts4vws.com/registry/registry_detail.asp?MemberCarID=212
 
 Here's Peter's website (not much there, really...)
 http://rotorcharged.brinkster.net/
 
 In-car video of my car on an autocross. Only get to open it up a few times during the whole run, but hopefully you get the idea...
 http://rotorcharged.brinkster.net/customers%20cars/videos/05MidDivChamps-Neal-Sunday1.wmv
 
 Feel free to email him (address on web links) or I can try to answer questions here. Like I said, he just told me to let my friends know he's putting together another run of these kits...so here I am, informing my friends! :P
 
 Neal
 Twin Screw '77 Scirocco