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• Re: Supercharger (was: 5 cyl. Audi in Vanagon - was Engine Conversions)
  Historical mailing list - mike miller
  Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:08:21 -0700
  ...COM> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 4:13 AM Subject: Re: Supercharger (was: 5 cyl. Audi in Vanagon - was Engine Conversions) > Now that we...
• Re: Tough driving(thin air)
  Historical mailing list - Ari Ollikainen
  Sun, 1 Jul 2001 08:44:56 -0700
  ...A supercharger installation would be a lot simpler.... Having lived and gone to high school within a few blocks of Paxton, maker of superchargers...
• Re: 85 octane in Colorado
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:19:00 -0400
  ...The moment you cross the border into Colorado with a turbo or a supercharger, you car will cease to function.................. The manufacturer will state...
• Re: [Audi-VW-Diesels] turbocharger versus Kompressor (supercharge r)
  Historical mailing list - Ferreira, John
  Fri, 24 Sep 1999 00:40:05 -0400
  ...Joel Walker and I have been tossing around the idea of using a Kompressor(supercharger) instead of a turbo for a Diesel engine. <snip...
• Re: WBX into Thing and VR6 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Per Lindgren
  Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:08:19 +0100
  ...The Supercharger is an Eaton unit, the same as found in the MB SLK 230 Kompressor. He started out with an Oettinger 2,5...
• Re: Water 4 Gas. com Does it work? Has Anyone Tried it? Know of It?
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:05:55 +0000
  You can get even more mileage inprovement if you include the magnetic fuel saver http://www.cndailymag.com/magnetic-fuel-saver.htm Electric supercharger...
• Re: yet another engine choice - VW "twincharger"
  Historical mailing list - Jeffrey Schwaia
  Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:56:06 -0700
  ...A > turbocharger is a supercharger, however, it gets it name from the > fact that > it uses a turbine to spin the compressor. The turbine...
• Re: WBX into Thing and VR6 Vanagon
  Historical mailing list
  Mon, 17 Jan 2000 08:39:34 EST
  ...I am keeping my eye open at the junkyards for a supercharged T-bird to snatch the Eaton supercharger off of. I bet one...
• Re: Platinum Vapour Injection for fuel savings etc.?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:51:19 -0400
  At 22:36 6/12/2000, Sudhir Desai wrote: >why are there superchargers and turbochargers that >"excess air" to the combustion chamber and produce...
• Re: Increasing horsepower
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 18 Oct 2002 21:41:58 -0500
  Clive Smith wrote: > > In fact it maybe takes 1000 hp to drive the superchargers! > Yes, it does take a bit of power to driver...
• Re: Supercharger (was: 5 cyl. Audi in Vanagon - was Engine Conversions)
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:35:08 EDT
  In a message dated 8/14/00 6:16:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, cstann@home.com writes: << Yankees, refer to such devices by...
• Re: Supercharger (was: 5 cyl. Audi in Vanagon - was Engine Conversions)
  Historical mailing list - CHRIS STANN
  Mon, 14 Aug 2000 22:08:03 -0500
  Somebody was complaining that there was not enough 'blood' on this list. I thought I'd oblige without dragging the Vanagon name through dirt...
• Re: Ford Focus SVT anyone?
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:07:11 CDT
  Hi Chris, There is a supercharger available now that is pretty cool, but the turbo kit will be cheaper and will generate more power...
• Re: K&N Air filters. anyone?
  Historical mailing list - John Brush
  Wed, 13 Jun 2001 20:38:53 -0600
  ...It's money well spent, because everyone knows >that this filter is performs like a supercharger. Hey, can I expect pretty much the same...
• Re: Vanagon conversion with Previa engine - anyone has done it?
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 4 Nov 2003 19:17:34 +1300
  ...The first generation gas engine was also available with supercharger. Of course all the diesels are supercharged. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin, New Zealand 64 (3...
• Re: ?G2 on G60 Corrado?
  Historical mailing list - Erik C Peterson
  Fri, 6 Jun 1997 09:32:04 -0700 (PDT)
  The G60 engine is equipped with a G-force supercharger which has inherently bad bearings. That's why VW opted not to use that...
• Audi Engine specs
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Sat, 12 Dec 1998 18:40:21 -0800
  ...lb-ft) 177 140 117 Displacement (cc) 2226 2309 2109 Turbo/Supercharger Turbo No No Bore X Stroke (in.) 3.19 X 3.4...
• Audi motors vs. VW (reformatted)
  Historical mailing list - Blue Eyes
  Fri, 11 Dec 1998 21:49:01 -0600
  ...lb-ft) 177 140 117 Displacement (cc) 2226 2309 2109 Turbo/Supercharger Turbo No No Bore x Stroke (in.) 3.19 x 3.4...
• Re: aftermarket turbo/supercharger to deisel?
  Historical mailing list - Brian Yonker
  Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:33:52 -0500
  For an excellent page on VW diesels, click on the link below: http://www.bright.net/~vwdiesel/main.htm To go straight to the...
• Re: the thread a few days/weeks ago about different exhaust options.
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Wed, 5 Jul 2006 01:44:14 -0400
  here is my new exhaust system. (i lost a bunch of low-end torque, but if someone has a supercharger in their system, this...
• Eurolights
  Historical mailing list - Jack Ck by way of Ron Lussier
  Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:21:06 -0700
  ...Found a cataolg for a bolt on electric supercharger for the Vanagon for $1300/-, improves power 25% - 30% and a whole cheaper the Subaru...
• Re: aftermarket turbo/supercharger to deisel?
  Historical mailing list - Horace K. Sawyer
  Sun, 11 Feb 2001 15:23:23 -0500
  The answer is no on all counts. But can be done another way. Just buy an 86-87 Turbo diesel from a Jetta or...
• Re: snake oil VW Carriolet Carrado Cabrio Vanagon Supercharger/Turbo ???
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:28:08 -0800
  > > I think you'd get as much effect from a couple of garden gnomes with > bellows. > Please tell me more about your fabulous Garden...
• FS: Corrado G60 as donor or ??
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Tue, 24 Apr 2001 00:08:09 EDT
  ...Anyway, the cost of getting the supercharger repaired has caused my friend to abandon the idea. However, I thought that I would pass this...
• G60 rebuild info reqest
  Historical mailing list - Benjamin Tan
  Sat, 21 Apr 2001 08:30:00 EDT
  ...He found an inexpensive engine complete with a broken supercharger. Does anybody have any experience getting these things rebuilt? Or does any body have...
• Re: ?G2 on G60 Corrado?
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 6 Jun 1997 22:51:11 +0000
  > The G60 engine is equipped with a G-force supercharger which has > inherently bad bearings. That's why VW opted not to use that...
• Re: W.B. Turbo?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 3 Nov 1999 21:14:35 EST
  ...It seems that a dune buggy racing team had a waterboxer with a supercharger on it. I would love to try to find that...
• Wasserboxer Bug
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:25:59 +1300
  ...That car scoots...get >this...2.1 wasserboxer stuffed in the back with a EATON supercharger off a US Mustang for that little bit...
• Re: snake oil VW Carriolet Carrado Cabrio Vanagon Supercharger/Turbo ???
  Historical mailing list - Robert Keezer
  Fri, 17 Mar 2006 12:32:25 -0800
  --- TC <trclark@SHAW.CA> wrote: > VW Carriolet Carrado Cabrio Vanagon > Supercharger/Turbo any comments ?? > Yes- first the guy does'nt know how to spell...
• Re: Increasing horsepower
  Historical mailing list - Clive Smith
  Sat, 19 Oct 2002 01:01:13 +0100
  ...So what should it be properly called? Ideas? > > Electrocharger? Bah, just electric supercharger. > > -- > > Andrew Grebneff > > 165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand > > <andrew.grebneff...
• Re: Ford Focus SVT anyone?
  Historical mailing list - John C...
  Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:02:37 +0000
  ...everymans Dream !!!!! ;o) JC... -------------- Original message -------------- > I thought the Bostig engines had an optional supercharger, not a turbo? >Man, both on one engine would...
• re: G60 in a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Shawn Wright, SMUS Network Manager
  Tue, 4 Jun 1996 13:07:38 PDT
  1.8 liter, G60 is the name for the supercharger that resides on the beast, stock 158hp at something about 5500 rpm, torque nearly...
• Re: Huffer motors..Turbo and SC...
  Historical mailing list - Sudhir Desai
  Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:00:56 -0400
  ...Check out this Merc wagon > with a turbo and supercharger. > > http://www.kolumbus.fi/valtonen.motorsport/ > > Crazy Finns... > > Casey > __________________________________________ > '87 300TD intercooler/propane/biodiesel...
• Electric Supercharger
  Historical mailing list - Christopher Michael Gronski
  Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:10:54 -0400
  With 67hp I am in that dangeroous mindset "willing to try anything". Do you really think this has potential? My westy is air cooled...
• Re: aftermarket turbo/supercharger to deisel?
  Historical mailing list - Steven Denis
  Sun, 11 Feb 2001 16:46:15 EST
  In a message dated 2/11/01 2:50:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG writes: << The other thing I want to...
• Re: Rust ...
  Historical mailing list - Warren Lail
  Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:52:31 -0600
  ...So, that being said, what is involved in installing a supercharger to a subie 2.2? Thanks, Warren in Santa Fe 88 Westy On...
• Re: the thread a few days/weeks ago about different exhaust options.
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Wed, 5 Jul 2006 08:41:04 -0500
  ...a bunch of low-end torque, but if someone has a supercharger > in their system, this is definately the way to go) > > note: all...
• Re: Supercharged Westy Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Malcolm Stebbins
  Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:19:55 -0700
  > Below is an update on the Zetec kit with the supercharger upgrade: 1) On your Bostig web page please put the RPMs for the...
• Huffer motors..Turbo and SC...
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 17 May 2007 21:05:20 -0700
  ...It'd seem to me, from looking at some of their installs and superficially perusing the net sites about superchargers that a SC and...
• Re: Supercharged Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Al and Sue Brase
  Wed, 9 Feb 2005 11:15:06 -0600
  A supercharger that will provide any useful boost would take 10-15 hp to run. Do you ave any idea how big and heavy...
• Re: Supercharger (was: 5 cyl. Audi in Vanagon - was Engine Conversions)
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:13:42 +1300
  >Calm down. You are all correct in your respective regions. Not necessary to >try to kick someone's trunk (or boot?) with a boot...
• New Engine transplant candidate? VW Twin Charger
  Historical mailing list - Thomas Myers
  Tue, 18 Apr 2006 08:56:16 -0400
  ...Fitted to the new Golf GT, the 16-valve 1.4-litre unit utilises both a supercharger and turbocharger. The supercharger, which operates at...
• Re: Huffer motors..Turbo and SC...
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:00:28 +1200
  ...Sudhir Desai [mailto:sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM] > > Maybe he's talking about superchargers with a bypass valve that is not > vacuum operated? > > Sudhir Um...
• Re: Tough driving
  Historical mailing list - Nicholas Wilson
  Sat, 30 Jun 2001 13:44:15 -0700
  ...The classic cure for altitude is a supercharger, which was invented for aircraft engines to deal with this problem. I don't know of...
• Re: Engine braking with a turbo...
  Historical mailing list - Andrew Grebneff
  Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:29:10 +1200
  ...Adding a supercharger of any kind to a diesel does not affect the engine-braking. My own turbodiesel Corolla (and a bunch of other...
• Re: Electric Supercharger/Been there, Done that...
  Historical mailing list - Mark B. Magee
  Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:12:01 -0500
  Beckett, I look at this years ago and determined what you found out: Return on Investment not worth it (Lo HP increase)!! Out of...
• yet another engine choice - VW "twincharger" HOLD IT!!
  Historical mailing list - Tom Miller
  Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:44:14 -0400
  ...yet another engine choice - VW "twincharger" > <<A supercharger is geared to the engine's rotating parts, like a > permanently mounted fan. > They are notoriously...
• Re: Tough driving(thin air)
  Historical mailing list - Bob Nugent
  Sun, 1 Jul 2001 00:53:33 EDT
  ...Anybody know of a small supercharger system that would work in that range -- and integrate with the fuel injection system? I can't see...
• Re: Seeking Advice for Sluggish Performance
  Historical mailing list - Timothy Lee Harrison
  Thu, 2 Aug 2001 00:15:52 +0100
  ...A normally >aspirated engine is one that does not have a turbo or supercharger ... >I think. I could be wrong though. I have been...
• Re: Increasing horsepower
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:20:56 -0500
  ...John Rodgers 88 GL Driver John Rodgers 88 GL Driver Andrew Grebneff wrote: > > >Superchargers are normally powered from the main crank (which means > >that...
• Re: Fwd: Corvair-powered Bay on Virginia CL
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:56:10 -0800
  ...I had a pal with one of the 2sp Corvairs with a supercharger when I was in high school....what a dog. Don Hanson
• wild van for sale...
  Historical mailing list - matt bezark
  Sun, 8 Oct 2000 18:48:53 -0600
  ...on body, 96K on engine, complete rebuild only 10K ago, new supercharger 5K ago, very clean, no rust, non-smoker, maroon, grey int, full...
• Re: Increasing horsepower
  Historical mailing list - Kim Brennan
  Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:48:53 -0400
  ...Not knowing the details, I'd say it is theoretically possible. Superchargers are normally powered from the main crank (which means that they add...
• Re: Rust ...
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:27:08 -0700
  ...Don Hanson So, that being said, what is involved in installing a supercharger to a subie 2.2? Thanks, > > > Warren in Santa Fe > 88...
• Re: Friday Thoughts about Turboing a Vanagon
  Historical mailing list - Stan Wilder
  Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:01:08 -0600
  ...there was a page out there with a waterboxer with a > supercharger > on it in the back of a Thing (anyone remember where this...
• Increasing horsepower
  Historical mailing list - WVVW
  Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:25:39 -0400
  ...It's some kind of an electronic supercharger that mounts in-line between the filter and throttle body. I've seen two versions from...
• Re: Seeking Advice for Sluggish Performance
  Historical mailing list - patrick paul clerkin
  Wed, 1 Aug 2001 18:10:45 -0500
  ...A normally aspirated engine is one that does not have a turbo or supercharger ... I think. I could be wrong though. I have been...
• Re: anybody want to supe up their Microbus? :)
  Historical mailing list - Joachim Beek
  Thu, 9 Feb 95 16:44:12 CST
  > >Comes with: Supercharger, all linkage, mounts, oiler, aircleaner >and double pulleys w/ belts. Includes copies of original instructions. > >All parts are original and in...
• Re: 1985 Vanagon - Ford Focus Engine alternative
  Historical mailing list - Jim Akiba
  Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:40:56 -0500
  ...Bolt-on power adders such as a supercharger or turbo kit are not strictly considered engine mods, they are "bolt-on power adders" where...
• Re: Huffer motors..Turbo and SC...
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Fri, 18 May 2007 08:11:53 -0400
  ...some of their installs and >superficially perusing the net sites about superchargers that a SC and a >Vanagon were meant for each other...Looking...