Want more power from your XR8 motor?

750hp · #1 (**permalink**) 02-26-2005, 06:02 PM

I've decided I need to sell a few of my extra performance parts to free up some cash if I'm ever going to buy myself a house. Damn #$*@ property market just keeps pushing houses out of my reach....The first thing to go will have to be the supercharger kit for the AU V8 motor.

This is a CAPA kit that includes:
Vortech V2SQ trim blower with optional Air-Assist oil feed
Vortech anodised FMU (fuel management unit)
Vortech / T-Rex high volume fuel pump
Bosch bypass valve, already mounted in tubing
2 x EECV piggyback chips from CAPA
All brackets
All pulleys and idlers (blower pulley is higher boost option)
CAPA instruction manual
Water injection
Blower belt
Oil feed fittings and return line
Various clamps, clips, hoses, wires, nuts, bolts.

New price from CAPA $7995 (plus Air-Assist, water injection and freight)

I know that no-one ever pays the asking price for pre-loved performance parts, so make me an offer. Before you do though, add up what it would cost to modify heads/intake/injectors/exhaust/computer/camshaft/rockers etc to make 300+Kw without a blower, and you'll see the value in the Vortech kit.

The kit is in a box, ready to go. If you have any questions, or want me to email pics, let me know here or by email and I'll get back to you ASAP. I have had a V7 Vortech blower on the Cobra for a couple of years now, and I am convinced that they make the best performing, most reliable blower on the market.

If you've read this far, you must be interested in buying the blower kit. Go on - send me an email!!! Don't let the Dark Side prevail...

PCC · #2 (**permalink**) 02-26-2005, 06:26 PM

Hey Craig,

I presume you'll fit FOC.

What do you think - bolt on and go with the 302W EFI fairlane motor?

Very tempting sir - Just got to work a few more Saturday's and maybe Sunday's!

750hp · #3 (**permalink**) 02-26-2005, 06:41 PM

If FOC equates to "For Outlandish Charge", then I'll do it !!!

peter de r · #4 (**permalink**) 02-26-2005, 11:22 PM

Craig:

You have mail

Peter

750hp · #5 (**permalink**) 02-27-2005, 01:38 AM

Peter:

So do you !

Craig

(I just noticed that you have a T5. Budget on replacing that if you fit any type of supercharger...)

347 · #6 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 12:12 AM

A tremec will help with that problem

peter de r · #7 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 12:33 AM

Just to clarify, I would fit the supercharger to a 347 with AFR heads, based on a Dart Sportsman Block,and driving through a Tremec TKO, all of which is in my 1962 Fairlane not my Cobra. I would agree that you would turn the T5 into scrap metal pretty quickly if you tried to run it behind this engine. Thanks for the advice though.

Peter

750hp · #8 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 12:56 AM

Cool project !!! Got any pics?

Cameron Parsons · #9 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 02:16 AM

So Craig,

how do I fit that, and work in with the 8TB setup?? Would be a nice engineering, and artistry challenge..... Aussie Mike?

Hmmm.. tempting. Maybe in the tow car

Cameron

750hp · #10 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 02:55 AM

Another guy in the Qld club had a thought (a couple of years ago) of welding up a sealed enclosure for the throttle bodies to fit inside, and topping it off with a clear perspex lid. That way, the air is filtered before the blower, so everyone can look in and see the throttle bodies / butterflies/ linkages, the works without it being covered up by the air filters.

Not to say those billet filters of yours don't already look the business.

Cameron Parsons · #11 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 03:06 AM

Hmmm... sounds like hard work, maybe I'll save the blower for the Daytona

Oop's, did I say that...

Cameron

WKB · #12 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 04:22 AM

Gentleman,
When you work out how to a manufacture and fit an air box to mulitiple throttle bodies please let me know.

Warren

Cameron Parsons · #13 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 12:23 PM

I wonder if you would really need to box in the whole TB assembly? How much bleed would you really get through the linkages?

Maybe just a nice sealed chanber on top, with some creative plumbing on the front or sides??

Cameron

WKB · #14 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 01:35 PM

I have given a bit thought to a sealed chamber on top with a air inet in the front, but I want to keep the ram tubes as well. From the attached picture you can see it would not be any easy job.

WKB · #15 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 01:39 PM

Picture 2

BevanWright · #16 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 02:29 PM

Have a look in my gallery - not throttle bodies, but eight butterflies for hillborn fuel injection.

The air box seels to the bonnet, and bonnet scoop.

Cheers
Bevan

Cameron Parsons · #17 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 02:54 PM

Hmm..

I can't ever get the post image in thread to work, so you will have to go to my gallery. But I think I have an easier setup to modify than yours WKB.

But your setup does look the business

Cameron

Aussie Mike · #18 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 10:31 PM

Dead easy. Just fold up a sheet metal box that sandwiches between the throttle bodies and the butterflys. You would have to make the top removable so you could get to the bolts.

As for Camerons car it's even easier since there are no anges required on the base of the box. A box folded up to bolt strainght on where your filters currently go. You could weld tubes through it for the hold down bolts to run through then you wouldn't need to make the top removable.

Scott would be the man to fabricat this since he's a dab hand with the TIG on Alloy. I could mill up the base plate to bolt to the throttle bodies. Probably do it from 8mm plate to ensure a good fit and seal against the throttle bodies. You could bond a set of trumpets in there to straighten out the airflow to each port.

The perspex top actually sonds like an idea as you would be able to see all of your trumpets.

Cheers

Aussie Mike · #19 (**permalink**) 02-28-2005, 10:36 PM

Actually I wouldn't mind this setup for my XR8 Pursuit. However I bought the Pursuit because it's factory hot rodded so I woudn't be tempted to play with it.

I've had it for a year now and have managed to resist the urge.

Cheers

750hp · #20 (**permalink**) 03-01-2005, 02:39 AM

Just in case anyone is genuinely interested, I've received an offer of $4900 for the blower via a different website. The guy lives in SA and wants me to pay for shipping.

If anyone wants it for $4500 (collect from my house in Brisbane), please let me know ASAP. If I haven't heard from any Cobra guys by Wednesday afternoon, I'll send it south. The South Australians are probably still crying about losing the Grand Prix, so they may as well bring "Adelaide Alive" with their own fast street cars....