My supercharged FC - work in progress
 

Just wanted to post a few pics of my 91 FC that I bought from my best friend two weeks ago down in NC. I only paid $1700 for the car and s/c. The car dark blue with a light blue interior. Before I bought this car I had never seen one this color before. The only issues with the car is carpet and the peeling clear coat on the hood, roof and spoiler. I plan on taking care of both in the next 30 days or so. I drove down to his house this morning to install the s/c but ran out of time before I had to drive back to VA.....cant wait to finish up. We will finish the install next weekend...hopefully I'll get the rest of my mods during the week. I'll post more pics once the install is complete.

Btw the hood is not closed in the pics and the blue carb hat will be replaced by a polished one that I already have. I'm going to fab a 3.5" cold air intake with aluminum intake tube and cap it off with an AEM filter. All my gauges came from Prosport....they will be installed in a custom gauge pod made of fiberglass.

Wow...Thats a steal....is it for sale? lol

Good luck with it, might wanna clean up the motor a bit to give it its shine, not every day you see a SC rotary motor...

There is a company that sells triple gauge pods for the 2nd gen, but either way thats nice find...keep us posted with the build up...hows the car run with the super charger

Sorry not for sale. Next year I plan on selling the complete swap to go turbo. I cleaned the side of the engine where the s/c bolts up the best I could. I'm probably gonna have it steam cleaned after the install. My buddy said he would help me break down the motor one day and paint it. I might have him do a mild port job while we have it apart. My main goal right now is to get everything installed and see how she holds up on 10 psi.

I'll let you know next weekend.

good stuff...

not a bad deal at all.. good luck.. ill be keeping posted as to how this works out for you!

Forget the carb hat cone filter thing, go with an normal 14" air cleaner. It will fall flat on it's face at 6500 rpm with a carb hat.

And the list of S/C'd FCs gets longer- me likey. Dig the color, too :D

My buddy ran the s/c for years with a hat and never complained of it falling flat but then again he had it on a ported motor with a 100 shot of nos.

Do you have a pic of the carb hat??

I tried this K&N carb hat with a 4" opening and a huge K&N filter, and it sucked.

Here you go.....the inlet is 4". I'm going to custom make a 3.5" cold air intake like I did on my RX8.

Coming through the hood with this next..... now this "will be" a cold air intake.

I think mine will work cause I am going to incorporate the MAF sensor into the intake. Here are a few pics of my 8....I copied the AEM intake but used 4" pipe up top and 3.5" pipe to run thru the radiator support. I topped it off with a AEM filter.

since you have a throttle body instead of a carb you may have more success than I did, good luck with it.

weak.....;)

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...1307cc/rx3.jpg


is this a camden kit?

NOPE! But it does look very interesting!

ha no that pic is of my contraption long ago.....

I was wondering if the original posters was a camden setup

yeah.....mine is a camden

Got to drive my car for the first time today but ran into a fuel issue. I think I have a bad injector. Will try to post a video once I get the issue resolved but for now here are a few pics I took today.

One of my friends has a 91 NA that is the same color. Great color, and good luck witht the build.

Looks good Will! Maybe next trip down to Carolina I'll have you stop by and help me put in my radiator. :)

Thats really cool. Post some videos and more pictures when you get it running correctly!

I took some video footage last time I was at my buddy's house but it didn't come out to well......started getting dark outside. Next time I go down I'll do it first thing.

neat idea!

good price

Yeah....my buddy hooked me up. He told me when I go turbo he'd give me a good deal on a BNR turbo he has.

Hey all it has been awhile since my last update. I wasn't able to make it down to NC to work on my ride until today. My buddy got 95% of the bugs worked out. The car runs great and holds 8.5 psi all the way to redline....I'm currently running a 9 psi pulley. I have a 10 psi pulley but I dont think I'm going to use it. We started doing a bit of the body work today. As you can see in the pic we are molding a hood scoop directly over the S/C. My custom cold air intake works great but I want to keep the engine bay as cool as possible. I also added a 4000 cfm cooling fan which I will swap onto my Koyo radiator once I get it. Well enjoy the pics and video clip. Sorry the clip is kinda fuzzy...time for a better camera I guess.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ_ZKIzKBbc

Wow that hoodscoop is crazy looking. I want to see it once its painted and finish. Otherwise good stuff man.

It will look something like the one on my buddy's car. My scoop is a little bigger.

thats awesome man! great job on the intake and everything on it, do you know with the 8.5psi your pushin on it how much horsepower you have to the wheels? or maybe an estimate of what you think it might be? definitely great job man

Better get a fan shroud on there. That thing will overheat pretty rapidly if you are not at freeway speeds.

Or an efan, of course.

I'm hoping for 210 - 215 whp. I will get it dynoed once I have everything done.

Here is my list of mods:

Camden S/C with 9psi pulley
A/M V8 fuel injection setup
Bonez resonated midpipe
Racing Beat y-pipe with stock mufflers (buying A/M mufflers this week)
Grip Force stage two clutch kit
Paxton fuel regulator
84 RX7 distributor
Accel 8.8 mm wires
MSD coils
Custom cold air intake (3.5" piping with AEM filter)
3.8L Ford Taurus (4000 cfm) cooling fan
Hood scoop

Future mods:

MSD box
Koyo radiator
Body kit
New wheels
Custom interior

You need to modify the mech advance on the dizzy for best performance.

Dizzy?

nice setup u gonna keep it the same color

nice man its an awesome build! you gotta keep us posted specially when you get this thing dynoed i wanna see what it puts down!

Nice work- keeping an eye peeled for that dyno- you paid less for your entire car than I did for just my s/c setup you bastard! Congrats, man.

distributor!

doesnt have a dizzy ? Its crank angle sensor. (edit: ah just saw in the pic he had changed to a dizzy setup)

1stgen8, what ecu are you running for the fuel then ? ? Im assuming a modified stock turbo ecu ?

Nice setup, will be good seeing the range of power your getting. Any idea or your intake temps with no intercooler ?

Yeah....I like the dark blue.

lol.....my buddy hooked me up. He is still giving me parts. Just gave me a racing beat y-pipe this weekend.

The stock NA ecu is still in the car but the stock fuel setup has been pulled. Years ago when my buddy bought the s/c he also bought an aftermarket V8 fuel injection kit. I forgot to take a pic of the black box (in the glove box) that controls the fuel and can't remember the name right now. I will ask my buddy and let you know.

Not sure of the intake temps but my cold air setup is helping. When I took the car out this weekend and ran it hard a few times the intake pipe was barley warm when I checked it. It was roughly 70-75 degrees out. I also think the 4000 cfm cooling fan I pulled from a Ford Taurus is helping. The whole time I was driving the prosport oil & water temp gauges did not pass 180 degrees. This was before we cut the hood for the scoop.

Hey man I was wondering if you had any more updates for this, It's definitely something im considering doing just wondering if you have any dyno numbers or anything new for us here at the club.