alecwatersmusic

Obviously it makes the most SENSE to buy the entire Stillen or HKS supercharger or kit... but has anyone finessed their engineering skills and just picked up a Vortech V-3 and got the supporting parts as they went along?

Baadnewsburr

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^^Isn't that a turbo?

Surfnazi

Not on this car but I have on my track m3. It took mor we time having to fab up things like brackets mounts and lines vs using a box kit. Still have to do custom tune either way

alecwatersmusic

Nope, that's Vortech's V-3 Si centrifugal supercharger unit. Link here: https://vortechsuperchargers.com/col...rcharger-units

alecwatersmusic

How's it run? Did you get any opposition along the way when you decided to do it yourself?

RMB5190

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TopGunz kit is hands down the most effective way to go but there's a member here who did a DIY rear mounted turbo and threw down some AMAZING figures.

Baadnewsburr

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well you learn something everyday! I really had no idea that was a thing

Surfnazi

Road and weather conditions is only major hangup on those

RMB5190

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Full disclosure: I'm speaking in regards to what I've read and watched.

That said, it appears much better than the...stock(?) Stillen set-up. Wish I could remember the info with the rear mounted turbo. I think the owner was running somewhere in the 600 whp range? Pretty awesome for somethin he threw together through trial and error.

Surfnazi

Ran great after 5 hours on dyno to tune it. I took 5 hours bc dyno was free. We tried different combos on intake manifolds and exhaust parts