Supercharged R0tary P0wah!
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Originally Posted by Tech_Greek
I got a little trigger happy tonight, forgot the camera as I was in a rush to get out to the place after I got out of the shower tonight...
"Mazdaspeed Protege - First race for the night, not used to the car yet launch wise, so we launched and of course I spun the tires all the way through first which immediatly gave him the advtg. so I finally started to catch up and the DREADED BELT STARTED SQUEALING...son of a betch, it's a random thing now, so I get to change belts YET again, anyway, he eneds up putting about half a car on me tops then the explorer tries to race...
Older Explorer - Round Boy but not the newest - Cams, Exhaust, and some other things, it was nice sounding but he kept driving like an ahole so he slams up beside me and starts hot braking it trying to use the TC to his ability so I didn't even launch just to see...he was about a half of car in front of me until about 6k rpm, then I put about two car lengths on him by second.
V8 Camaro - First race with him, I grinded third after being side by side with him so that pissed me off, then we finally got another chance but it was right before traffic ended and he flew in between two cars, I waited, so I played catch up at about 100mph I passed him and walked him.
After that I went home after having a fun time for the night, glad to have heat & powersteering again finally! "
"Mazdaspeed Protege - First race for the night, not used to the car yet launch wise, so we launched and of course I spun the tires all the way through first which immediatly gave him the advtg. so I finally started to catch up and the DREADED BELT STARTED SQUEALING...son of a betch, it's a random thing now, so I get to change belts YET again, anyway, he eneds up putting about half a car on me tops then the explorer tries to race...
Older Explorer - Round Boy but not the newest - Cams, Exhaust, and some other things, it was nice sounding but he kept driving like an ahole so he slams up beside me and starts hot braking it trying to use the TC to his ability so I didn't even launch just to see...he was about a half of car in front of me until about 6k rpm, then I put about two car lengths on him by second.
V8 Camaro - First race with him, I grinded third after being side by side with him so that pissed me off, then we finally got another chance but it was right before traffic ended and he flew in between two cars, I waited, so I played catch up at about 100mph I passed him and walked him.
After that I went home after having a fun time for the night, glad to have heat & powersteering again finally! "
Dyno is where it's at! As I was telling you, races are too relative, get to the dyno! That or a regular track too, that's always a good # to have!
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Rockn' The Galant
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Originally Posted by Atkins Dan
Glad to see you got the charger ok with the installed ok too..
on thing to rember don't get caught with a set OR MORE red and blue lights flashing behind you because we all know that is not a good thing..
Been there with both of my S\C rides..
Dan
on thing to rember don't get caught with a set OR MORE red and blue lights flashing behind you because we all know that is not a good thing..
Been there with both of my S\C rides..
Dan
knock on woodRAT, yep tune is next along with injectors, fuel puimp, etc
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Yes, that's the design of the supercharger, you go to low idle wise and it creates drag vs actual boost, so now you've just blocked up the intake path.
But 1800 really isn't that bad, but it's DEFINTLEY a big attention grabber, how do you think I got all those races tonight? I was just cruising too!
But 1800 really isn't that bad, but it's DEFINTLEY a big attention grabber, how do you think I got all those races tonight? I was just cruising too!
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Defintley, it's my baby 
!
That's all that matters, sure the power may not be as much as a big turbo or whatever, but it's what I'm happy with is what matters, the instant boost for me is much better than any turbo driven car I've ever ridden in, the feel of the torque range is fun, and I mean, it's some thing different...I'm not here to proove anyone that a supercharger is better than a turbo, that's not my point to this thread...it's to have fun with a car and do something unique!
!That's all that matters, sure the power may not be as much as a big turbo or whatever, but it's what I'm happy with is what matters, the instant boost for me is much better than any turbo driven car I've ever ridden in, the feel of the torque range is fun, and I mean, it's some thing different...I'm not here to proove anyone that a supercharger is better than a turbo, that's not my point to this thread...it's to have fun with a car and do something unique!
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Originally Posted by Tech_Greek
But 1800 really isn't that bad, but it's DEFINTLEY a big attention grabber, how do you think I got all those races tonight? I was just cruising too!
Anyway, this is one of my fantasy projects, along with swapping in a 13b-RE. I expect the RE to happen first, though.
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Originally Posted by Atkins Dan
Glad to see you got the charger ok with the installed ok too..
on thing to rember don't get caught with a set OR MORE red and blue lights flashing behind you because we all know that is not a good thing..
Been there with both of my S\C rides..
Dan
on thing to rember don't get caught with a set OR MORE red and blue lights flashing behind you because we all know that is not a good thing..
Been there with both of my S\C rides..
Dan
i dont know but the cop i got pulled over by was rather fond of my car. officer "how fast do you think you was going?" me "not sure officer...(dont really look down at speedo but did see my tach and it was flying to redline in third and i was in a 45mph zone...oopz) officer " ok wash the car in the morning" (walks around the car nods and walks away) this was all at night.
i dont have a supercharger but yah.
Jason
Originally Posted by SonicRaT
Wow, you guys aim kind of small with your fantasy, lol. If I had any fantasy over what I'd do to my car, it'd be a 20B with a whipple.
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Yep, today I'm going to buy a long set of vac hose hopefully adv auto has it or pepboys, then it's off to change the belt back to the dayco, guess I'll just have to stretch it.
Nice sounding car, would love to know what it pulls on the dyno also...
oh ya, my fantasy is either a 3 rotor full BP N/A or a 4 rotor N/A (12A probably as it is the same length as a 20B or so)
- chris
oh ya, my fantasy is either a 3 rotor full BP N/A or a 4 rotor N/A (12A probably as it is the same length as a 20B or so)
- chris
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I've got to wait on the locals to have enough intrest to deploy the dyno, they won't just unload it for me alone unless I paid them close to $200...which I'm not going to let them tune my car (no offense, they are great guys, but they are piston tuners not rotary).
I have an aggressive streetport with my 6 port s/c and I idle fine at 1000. I will agree you can't beat the feel, torque and response of the s/c. True a big turbo will give more peak hp, but the torque and sound of the s/c is great.
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Originally Posted by 84stock
I have an aggressive streetport with my 6 port s/c and I idle fine at 1000. I will agree you can't beat the feel, torque and response of the s/c. True a big turbo will give more peak hp, but the torque and sound of the s/c is great.
Originally Posted by 84stock
I have an aggressive streetport with my 6 port s/c and I idle fine at 1000. I will agree you can't beat the feel, torque and response of the s/c. True a big turbo will give more peak hp, but the torque and sound of the s/c is great.
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Originally Posted by Jager
What did you do different?
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lol, didn't you read page 3? He's going to hold off on dynoing until he gets a pump and larger injectors and can get it dialed in on the dyno. My quick guesstimation would probably be around the 180 mark right now.
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Yeah, well, my friend's got a Mazdaspeed Protege that's doing a 14.4 - 14.6 consistently and we had a buddy of ours flag us, I was dead even with him through first, the shift to second I fell back to his front qp but caught right back up and started to walk away but then the clutch went down to the ground...so I get to find the leak, it's been a gradual thing, the master is brand new so I have a feeling it's just the slave freaking with me, I'll get a braided line for the clutch line this time around. It works fine now that I added fluid back to it but I pulled on a Mazdaspeed Protege that's running 10lb's of boost (they run 7 normally), full exhaust, and some type of gizmo on the fuel system that makes it colder? Don't ask me I don't know...
Anyways, yeah you can defintley feel the AFR on a roller coaster power wise, it needs a tune bad.
And to answer the question on what the guy did different, a carb, the FI kit apparently has problems holding the idle due to the craptastic stock ECU, I'll be going stand alone sooner or later.
Anyways, yeah you can defintley feel the AFR on a roller coaster power wise, it needs a tune bad.
And to answer the question on what the guy did different, a carb, the FI kit apparently has problems holding the idle due to the craptastic stock ECU, I'll be going stand alone sooner or later.
