Turbo?

[au672000]

Anyone turbo a 3000? Can the motor handle the boost? Or too expensive?

thanks,
Ashley

 

[bdcvg]

Hmmmm, more heat under the hood ehhh?

 

[Randy Forbes]

At 6-1/2 or 8 psi, for starters, I'm pretty sure the stock internals could handle it. Anything above that, and you'd have to get creative with charge-coolers, and possibly reduced compression ratios (which will make it less powerful than stock, until the turbo spools up).

I'd use a pair of relatively small turbos, for quicker response, and set it up for port-fuel injection, possibly with the Weber-pattern throttle bodies. Combining the engine management (fuel + ignition) with the aid of inlet temperature & exhaust gas monitoring (wideband O2 sensors) plus 1 or 2 knock sensor inputs, and you'd have a fairly efficient setup...

Or, you could swap in a BMW 3.0 N-54 (or even an N-55, like my wife's X5 has) stand it upright, and have >300bhp/>300Lb-ft with a lot less experimenting. But what would be the fun in that?!?!

 

[andrea]

EATON Volumetric Compressor can be mounted on AH
I suppose that can be the same of the Mercedes SLK- easy tto connect to the engine by a belt and a calculated pulley- the hard problem is the Intake collector
see this interesting article from MOSS on MG TD https://www.mossmotors.com/Shop/ViewProducts.aspx?PlateIndexID=112337
https://www.mossmotors.com/graphics/products/instructions/150-030_053-371_INST.pdf

 

[andrea]

Interesting question is that with this Surcharger power can be waried simply changing the pulley diameter-on MB SLK 2000 cc FOUR cilinder engine -can change from 160 HP to more than 200 HP