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Old 07-26-09, 09:42 PM
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WTF Camden?

I just went to camdensuperchargers.com expecting to see a line of chargers for the rotary, and was bitch slapped with a page about how atkins is no longer building engines and his son dan blah blah blah. What's the deal? Are camden superchargers being produced anymore? Anybody feel like enlightening me?
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waste. get a blowthru setup and you'll be good
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touche. I don't really want to go through the trouble of fabbing a manifold for my 12A in addition to making a carb hat and FMIC etc. +there is the sexiness of the whine of the supercharger. But really, are they still around?
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just went to the website on mine... no problems dunno what happened
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+1 on turbo. You'll get more power with the same amount of money spent on the camden. A camden build would be fun though...
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camdens look like sex. yeah i went to there website and didnt see anything either ???
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Originally Posted by twinkletoes
+1 on turbo. You'll get more power with the same amount of money spent on the camden. A camden build would be fun though...
Yep! Maybe even less then a camden setup!
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Originally Posted by Portland82GSL
touche. I don't really want to go through the trouble of fabbing a manifold for my 12A in addition to making a carb hat and FMIC etc. +there is the sexiness of the whine of the supercharger. But really, are they still around?
you can buy them from rotary shack already made
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Yep, we can sell you a custom 12a turbo exhaust manifold, and a nice custom made turbo plenum carb hat polished, plus a turbo if you want the best one for your step
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Originally Posted by Kerebrus
Yep, we can sell you a custom 12a turbo exhaust manifold, and a nice custom made turbo plenum carb hat polished, plus a turbo if you want the best one for your step
never bought anything from rotary shack but when I needed help or had a question they were always there with helpful advice, so rotary shack ftw!
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okay, well what supporting mods would that require? I have a dellorto sidedraft setup with a carter fuel pump and holley fpr on a freshly built streetport 12a.
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FP & FPR looks good, the dellorto would need to be boost prepped and jetted properly of course and the dizzy locked. Then you'd just need the turbo exhaust manifold, turbo, carb hat, IC setup (not required). What exhaust setup are you running at this time? An MSD box would be a nice addition as well.
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Well, I'm about to get an exhaust fabbed with a RB roadrace header, 2.5" thickwall piping through 2 presilencers and a magnaflow. As of right now, I'm choking myself with the stock exhaust
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I've had two different camden set ups the first was the 5" with 600 holley. Now that set up was great. I did'nt have many issues with it. I was killin cars left and right at the track.

THEN:

I went with the 7" with the custom EFI set up. I had a lot of heat issues, and went through a few transmissions. It seemed like we were tuning the car all the time.
This time everything was killin me at the track, and we only got about 210 hp. out of it.

I wanted more power, so we went with a thrust T3/T4 turbo, and i can't be happier

My buddy Greg has the 7" on his car now with a 650 Dbl pumper. we will see how it work out for him, we just got it running.
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Originally Posted by ©ØÐËߣüË
I've had two different camden set ups the first was the 5" with 600 holley. Now that set up was great. I did'nt have many issues with it. I was killin cars left and right at the track.

THEN:

I went with the 7" with the custom EFI set up. I had a lot of heat issues, and went through a few transmissions. It seemed like we were tuning the car all the time.
This time everything was killin me at the track, and we only got about 210 hp. out of it.

I wanted more power, so we went with a thrust T3/T4 turbo, and i can't be happier

My buddy Greg has the 7" on his car now with a 650 Dbl pumper. we will see how it work out for him, we just got it running.
Keep us updated
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Originally Posted by twinkletoes
+1 on turbo. You'll get more power with the same amount of money spent on the camden. A camden build would be fun though...
Ditto....Being a long time once committed camden fan I concur! The torque from the camden is great. Simplicity of installation fantastic It looks sexy (especially with the scoop sticking out of my hood!). The sound of the blower gives you a rush and turns heads. The only thing that I like better is the the sound of a turbo's blow off valve after spooling up in second gear and shifting into third as it passes me "every ******* time" (got smoked by an Audi A4 last night, I took the holeshot, but a block later, swoosh,.... gone, nothing but A4 bumper in my windshield). Definite turbo plans in the future for me, until then I appreciate all aspects of my camden set up and make the best of it, hopefully the nitrous will make the magical difference.
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Yup, and today they told me that they no longer sell the FI setup as "It just doesn't work". Killed those plans and going turbo...
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Yeah, 12A turbo is in my future. I just got a gilmer pulley system from Tweakit.net, so I can still have the SC whir but turbo power. Can someone post pics of their 12A turbo setup?
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