supercharger Options

[dian]

hi yall

can a supercharger be put on a 74 2.0 l fi car? anybody seen one, done it? thanks.

[shuie]

Here's another photo that shows a little more of the belt:

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[lrm914]

Here's another photo that shows a little more of the belt:

(IMG:https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-d_st-gCid4Y/Tn-AgoO0l_I/AAAAAAAAKA0/4nVBEqpZrws/s640/914SCmotor.jpg)

That's a pic of my car's engine. I bought this car about 16 years ago. I have moved around, but always brought the car with me from place to place. Currently I am working to get the car back onto the road. I had though to start a build thread but could not figure out how to do that in the club forums.. A few senior members have been really helpful to me THANKS!
As I understand it it was built in the early 90's at a Fla speedshop called RPM by a Porsche guru named Jay..I do not think the shop is still around. I did make contact with another 914world member who knew Jay back when he was building cars. He mentioned that his shop was always doing innovative modifications to 914's.

The engine is a '75 2.0 Liter California (as I understand it, this is a variation of the 2L but I am not sure of the exact difference, expets here will have more knowledge about that, maybe sl. larger dispacement?), anyway the setup has a bolt on blower being driven by the crank, the belt wraps around the alternator then an idler pully then over the top of the supercharger pully. A weber carb sits on top of the SC. The car souds like a Lear jet when it's running...
Years ago I had a new SC pully lathed out of aluminum, much better than the pully it came with. When I got the car it had been built for the track, brake mods, suspention mods, fuel cell (original tank removed), nothing but a racing seat wheel and dashboard in the interior (would guess thtat the car was stripped down to reduce weight). The body is a 73 model, but modified with steel flares.
What other pics would be helpful? I would be happy to help out.

I would love to speak with anyone who may have worked on this car or has experience with the supercharging work that was being done "back in the day" with the Fla crowd back in the 90's.

Would also be interesting to see how many of these RPM supercharged cars are still around.

Exciting to see there's another one out there!

Send me a PM to connect...

[racerbvd]

Here's another photo that shows a little more of the belt:

(IMG:https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-d_st-gCid4Y/Tn-AgoO0l_I/AAAAAAAAKA0/4nVBEqpZrws/s640/914SCmotor.jpg)

That's a pic of my car's engine. I bought this car about 16 years ago. I have moved around, but always brought the car with me from place to place. Currently I am working to get the car back onto the road. I had though to start a build thread but could not figure out how to do that in the club forums.. A few senior members have been really helpful to me THANKS!
As I understand it it was built in the early 90's at a Fla speedshop called RPM by a Porsche guru named Jay..I do not think the shop is still around. I did make contact with another 914world member who knew Jay back when he was building cars. He mentioned that his shop was always doing innovative modifications to 914's.

The engine is a '75 2.0 Liter California (as I understand it, this is a variation of the 2L but I am not sure of the exact difference, expets here will have more knowledge about that, maybe sl. larger dispacement?), anyway the setup has a bolt on blower being driven by the crank, the belt wraps around the alternator then an idler pully then over the top of the supercharger pully. A weber carb sits on top of the SC. The car souds like a Lear jet when it's running...
Years ago I had a new SC pully lathed out of aluminum, much better than the pully it came with. When I got the car it had been built for the track, brake mods, suspention mods, fuel cell (original tank removed), nothing but a racing seat wheel and dashboard in the interior (would guess thtat the car was stripped down to reduce weight). The body is a 73 model, but modified with steel flares.
What other pics would be helpful? I would be happy to help out.

I would love to speak with anyone who may have worked on this car or has experience with the supercharging work that was being done "back in the day" with the Fla crowd back in the 90's.

Would also be interesting to see how many of these RPM supercharged cars are still around.

Exciting to see there's another one out there!

Send me a PM to connect...

I sent him the pix you sent me, as he hung out at the shop at that time, sent them to a few other friends as well, but nothing yet, also working on getting Jay's current contact info for you.

Jay was one of the pioneers of the twin plug setup for the Type 4 back in the day as well. If I remember right he used a Nissan distributor to control the four extra plugs.

Correct, Phil had one of these engines, and it was FAST!!! I also have one, but need a new Naps Z distributor (these came out of Nissan pick ups) Mine vanished (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)