"Oh God, what have we done?!"
#1
05-31-2011, 12:12 AM
"Oh God, what have we done?!"
So while I may be Roverless for the time being, it doesn't mean that I can't still play with them, right?
A very good friend of mine is quite the rover collector, and while he mainly dabbles in Range Rover Classics, he picked up a wrecked 1998 DI on the cheap a couple of months back.
Well, it needed lots of work to run. It had been sitting for a couple years, the alarm was all sorts of pissed off, and the fuel pump was bad, etc. etc. Here in the last few days he finally got it running and driving. It's a GEMS 4.0 engine.
Since my friend got this truck running, there is an item that he's had sitting around for at least two years that he's finally got the chance to use.
The item in question is a Magnuson, twin screw, belt driven Supercharger.
So over the course of the last two afternoons, my friend and I bolted this supercharger to the top of his engine. It's almost scary how simple it really was. There were minor headaches that popped up, but no really serious problems. We finished it up tonight. In order to keep it from pinging during the test run tonight, we dumped three gallons of CAM 2, 100 octane racing fuel in, as well as a bottle of octane booster. He plans on doing methane and water injection so that he can just run on regular 93 octane pump gas since CAM 2 is $7.25 a gallon.
After we got everything bolted up, we took her for a test run. The first run was just ordinary. The return trip...was a different story.
We did a full WOT run up to about 80, supercharger screaming the entire way. I dare say that thing thing would easily find well over 100. After we stopped back in my friend's driveway, he looked over at me and just about yells "OH God, what have we done?!" 0-60 came in 10.5 seconds, which isn't bad for a 2 ton Discovery.
PROTIP: If you ever come across a supercharger kit for a Land Rover V8? It's well worth the money.
TL;DR
Supercharged a 4.0L DI. It's fast.
A very good friend of mine is quite the rover collector, and while he mainly dabbles in Range Rover Classics, he picked up a wrecked 1998 DI on the cheap a couple of months back.
Well, it needed lots of work to run. It had been sitting for a couple years, the alarm was all sorts of pissed off, and the fuel pump was bad, etc. etc. Here in the last few days he finally got it running and driving. It's a GEMS 4.0 engine.
Since my friend got this truck running, there is an item that he's had sitting around for at least two years that he's finally got the chance to use.
The item in question is a Magnuson, twin screw, belt driven Supercharger.
So over the course of the last two afternoons, my friend and I bolted this supercharger to the top of his engine. It's almost scary how simple it really was. There were minor headaches that popped up, but no really serious problems. We finished it up tonight. In order to keep it from pinging during the test run tonight, we dumped three gallons of CAM 2, 100 octane racing fuel in, as well as a bottle of octane booster. He plans on doing methane and water injection so that he can just run on regular 93 octane pump gas since CAM 2 is $7.25 a gallon.
After we got everything bolted up, we took her for a test run. The first run was just ordinary. The return trip...was a different story.
We did a full WOT run up to about 80, supercharger screaming the entire way. I dare say that thing thing would easily find well over 100. After we stopped back in my friend's driveway, he looked over at me and just about yells "OH God, what have we done?!" 0-60 came in 10.5 seconds, which isn't bad for a 2 ton Discovery.
PROTIP: If you ever come across a supercharger kit for a Land Rover V8? It's well worth the money.
TL;DR
Supercharged a 4.0L DI. It's fast.
#5
05-31-2011, 09:42 AM
Baja
#6
05-31-2011, 11:01 AM
This is the only picture I have right now, taken while we were just test fitting the SC. It was taken with an extremely crappy cell phone. We got some vid last night that my friend took with his IPhone, but I have to wait until he uploads it.
Last edited by tornado_735; 05-31-2011 at 11:04 AM.
