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While my Wife and I were at the Triumphest last weekend I saw the new supercharger from Moss OH so cool!! It still is in the expermental stage, but early spring should be ready for sale. Kind of expensive I am sure.
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Very nice!
Ive often wondered if someone would do such a thing.
Yes, Im sure it will be quite spendy
 
tinman58 said:
While my Wife and I were at the Triumphest last weekend I saw the new supercharger from Moss OH so cool!! It still is in the expermental stage, but early spring should be ready for sale. Kind of expensive I am sure.
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Looks like an adaptation of a standard Eaton unit. Did they provide any details?
 
don't forget that when you supercharge you should change cam and lower compression as well to make things happy.
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I don't know, I would think that the plastic manifold might melt. yuk yuk.
 
That's not plastic.....it's Aluminium Oxynitride a form of TRANSPARENT ALUMINUM!!! :laugh:
And if you don't believe me, watch Star Trek 4 - The Journey Home. Montgomery Scott wouldn't lie to us would he?!!

Transparent aluminum
Star Trek technical manuals indicate that transparent aluminum is used in various fittings in starships, including exterior ship portals and windows. It was notably mentioned in the 1986 film Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Panels of acrylic glass were needed to construct water tanks with a thickness suitable for containing two humpback whales and tonnes of water. However, the Enterprise crew, without money appropriate to the period, found it necessary to barter for the required materials. In exchange for the acrylic glass, Chief Engineer Scott shares the chemical formula for "transparent aluminum". The term is now being used as a real world descriptor for a newly discovered transient state of matter, "transparent aluminium" bombarded with high levels of x-ray radiation, which temporarily becomes transparent to X-rays of the same wavelength (13.5 nm).[1][2]

Aluminium oxynitride is a form of ceramic with properties similar to the substance seen in star Trek.
 
I thought maybe they were employing hi-temperature plastic manifold technology like they're using on Corvettes & Ferrari's :laugh: .
 
Does anyone here have any experience with a supercharger on a TR? The reason I ask:

The car that introduced me to sportscars was a 1957 MGA with a Judson supercharger on it, owned by my best friend in high school. IT WAS A NIGHTMARE!
The manifold had one carburetor and the pulleys had TWO BELTS. His problem: if you tightened both belts to the proper tightness, and revved it up, the spun aluminum (or cast aluminum, whatever the cheaper one was) pulley/bracket would snap right in half. He did this two times before he gave up on it.

So, he ended up running one belt, that was loose, and the one carburetor, which meant that in real life, he was running LESS THAN A STOCK MGA (with TWO carburetors).

Every since then, I have always wondered if anyone ever had success with a Judson supercharger. Inquiring minds want to know...
 
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