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Turbocharger or Supercharger??
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RSTuning
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R35 GTR
Same as anything and it depends how it's driven really. Our stock engine that we ran at silly boost is fully stripped and there was only a problem on the crappy cast on one piston's ring land. Pretty good for a 100k engine really. The mechanical side can be a minefield on these at times anyway, we've seen totally standard 40k cars throw a rod for no reason then others are abused so much and just take anything you throw at them!
172 - 249bhp @ the wheels
car in question has done over 8k since install all on a 100+k original engine, not bad considering the idiot driving it
Fletcher
ClioSport Club Member
Who's that then?
thejesus??
Supercharger FTW!!!
[youtube]XPhTFQFMI5Q[/youtube]
^^^ That's an Eaton M45 doing it's loudest + best to create 190bhp from 1341cc and 8v's. The engine was originally designed in the 70's and had 45bhp from 1272cc. The supercharged standard car with 8:1CR has 115bhp. You need to spend the money to make boost reliable. That now has forged pistons and a good intercooler set up to keep things running cool. Linear delivery, the noise and the performance of superchargers are great. If you're not chasing numbers I'd pick one over a turbo. I wouldn't be surprised if the Polo had more than 100k on it before the huge increase in power.
[youtube]XPhTFQFMI5Q[/youtube]
^^^ That's an Eaton M45 doing it's loudest + best to create 190bhp from 1341cc and 8v's. The engine was originally designed in the 70's and had 45bhp from 1272cc. The supercharged standard car with 8:1CR has 115bhp. You need to spend the money to make boost reliable. That now has forged pistons and a good intercooler set up to keep things running cool. Linear delivery, the noise and the performance of superchargers are great. If you're not chasing numbers I'd pick one over a turbo. I wouldn't be surprised if the Polo had more than 100k on it before the huge increase in power.
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sounds like a milkfloat :dead:
More power, HUGELY improved reliability, less torque sub-3k so it's actually driveable...and some would say the noise...other would disagree.
R5 GTT EFI Clio.
Turbo all the way 
Focus RS Mk1
i was gonna say the same, with the rotrex's the power increaes with revs! opposite of running out of puff!
Fletcher
ClioSport Club Member
Oh i see..
The figures speak for themselves, Eaton cars run higher power mod-for-mod. The G40 is a good supercharger for producing low down boost but it's not as suited to producing large amounts of boost at high rpm's as the M45...it was originally designed as a pump in the 1800's. You don't generally get G40's over 180-190...Eaton or 2 running at 220...Turbo is ideal as you save so much without the parasitic loss of driving the charger. You'd reap. the costs back in a few charger rebuilds, £300-500 every 20k miles hurts.
ITB'd MK1
172 - 249bhp @ the wheels
Does look that way! pmsl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKU0...howthread.php?t=23694&feature=player_embedded
ITB'd MK1
SC Ph1 172 and M140i
Fook me, thats rapid!!
Nice!
Nice!
I know of one person who fitted one to a Polo, he actually managed to shorten the boost pipe work by about 5ft as well. They seem to be really good...but pricey!
