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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 03:00 PM
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A couple of pics of my new setup

After much deliberation, I decided to ditch my Weber blow-through plans in favor of this:





Camden 7" supercharger with an Edelbrock 600. No vids yet, because the belt slips under hard boost. I'm hoping sandblasting the pulley and switching to a better belt will fix it. Even so, the drivability and low-end power are impressive, though the carb seems to bog a bit. I don't know if it's just too big or what. I'm still waiting for my wideband to arrive so I can get it tuned better.

The turbo will go in my REPU instead, with a real TII engine and EFI.
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 03:45 PM
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*drool* Nice setup!
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 03:48 PM
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Very nice setup!!
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 04:55 PM
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thats SEX , is that a 13B? also how much psi are your running on your regulator?
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 06:21 PM
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 06:43 PM
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thats SEX , is that a 13B? also how much psi are your running on your regulator?
Fuel pressure, you mean? It's currently set at just under 5 PSI, which is the limit of that regulator. I plan on switching to a Holley reg at some point so I can have more adjustability and so the current one can be used in another car.
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 08:31 PM
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Nice one word though. HEADER!!! I still see a manifold under there!!
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Old Dec 18, 2008 | 10:23 PM
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I'm still running the same short side-exit exhaust system I was before. I wasn't going to spend a bunch of money on a nice exhaust when I was just going to take it back off anyway when I installed the turbo, but since I'm no longer going to be installing a turbo, naturally I'll have to do something about it.
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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 12:00 AM
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yes I ment fuel pressure lol, what fuel pump are you running btw?I like to know what people have for their cars
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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 12:26 AM
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so you ditched the blow through...whats it doing now?
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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 12:41 AM
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^ I don't know what the Weber is going into yet. The turbo is going into my truck as I mentioned.

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yes I ment fuel pressure lol, what fuel pump are you running btw?I like to know what people have for their cars
I actually don't remember what the fuel pump is. It's an off-brand German pump. I can't remember what it says on it, and it's snowing right now, so I don't really want to go look. It seems to work pretty well, though. The FPR is a Malpassi Petrol King if you're curious.

Oh, and I forgot to answer your other question. Yeah, it's a nitrided R5 13B with a large streetport. Probably more overlap than I'd ideally want with a supercharger, but whatever.

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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 11:14 AM
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DId you buy that new from Atkins?
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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 01:00 PM
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No, I got it from a friend.
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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 03:10 PM
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a 2gdfis would be nice on it, my 7 starts faster and idles better with it
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Old Dec 19, 2008 | 09:29 PM
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We'll do DLIDFIS.
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Old Dec 20, 2008 | 11:59 AM
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I always wanted a Camden to play with. When I still had my BridgePort 12A in my old SA, I would have loved to have it supercharged. Then I could have both! Man, I'm greedy..........Nice setup!
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From what I heard was you don't wanna supercharge a bridgeport.... the supercharger doesn't like to turn that high of RPM as a bridgy does......
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 02:14 AM
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all i can say is...good choice! plan on taking any videos of the engine running?
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 02:48 AM
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Ummm, I believe there was a tease of video. where's it at??? its been 4 months.
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What power did this bad boy make?
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 11:39 AM
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Lol, whoops, I forgot about this thread.

There's a reason I don't have video yet. The belt was really slipping at first, and almost immediately after I fixed that, the clutch went. We decided to wait and upgrade the exhaust at the same time as changing the clutch, but the weather hasn't been good until just recently. It's now finally done... almost.

We used the stock muffler as a placeholder in the new exhaust system, but ran out of time to actually hack off the old and weld on the new. So currently I'm running a collected RB header, RB presilencer, and a stock muffler. I hope to get the Borla installed within the next few days if the weather cooperates. I could get video now if you guys want, but trust me, it sounds awful.

Dyno time is coming soon. All I know for sure is that it has (significantly) more than 144 WHP.

For now, how about some pics of my new motor mounts?



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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 11:45 AM
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Thanks for the update and nice motor mounts, where did you buy them? The only one's I've seen for FB's are from Banzai.
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 11:55 AM
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Heh. Look closer.

I haven't tried Banzai mounts, but mine feel pretty similar to Racing Beat's competition mounts for $80 less (and I can make more for only a few bucks).
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are those mounts hockey pucks???
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Old Apr 27, 2009 | 01:15 PM
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yea, they are hockey pucks, very common thing, cant believe you guys have never seen that. especially wiht half of you being canucks.
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