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hey guys im in a bit of a dilemma ive been offerd wat looks like a magneson supercharger and a four barrel carb bolted to a 3.5 rover lump with low compression pistons standard cam all the pullys tensioners and plates belts looks a bit rough and ready with engine build frame and loads of extras for £600 but i want to rebuild it and make it look nice and shiny but my mum nd dad arnt happy about it is that a good buy cheers guys would appreciate some info on what to look out for aswell thanks .

£600 for the lot seems a good price, im not sure what to look for as i know nothing about superchargers, a supercharged v8 all shiny does look very cool rich

Hi,
Got a picture of what you are being offered?
certainly a supercharger is the quickest way to more power where you want it for a landy, I wouldn't rush to lower the compression ratio, what boost is it intended to deliver? what CR is your existing engine?
Best regards
Mike

hey guys ive now bought the lot . but im a bit unsure about what supercharger it is because they look the same on the outside but ive only got two finned rotors if that makes any sense i think it been reconditioned a 100 miles ago and its going into i hope a mk3 cortina coz i like the classic ness about them and big drag type tyers on the back with a jag gearbox should cope with the torque shud be a lot of fun

hey my landy is a series 2a with four pin diffs on 300 tdi discovery v8 axles coil conversion all round with a r380 five speed gearbox and a discovery transferbox with a rebuilt rover sd1 3.5 v8 with a highlift cam and high compression pistons at the moment its reconed its a 200 bhp lump all i know it beats most things off the lights and it goes like sh#t off a shovel

landy 88 v8 wrote:hey my landy is a series 2a with four pin diffs on 300 tdi discovery v8 axles coil conversion all round with a r380 five speed gearbox and a discovery transferbox with a rebuilt rover sd1 3.5 v8 with a highlift cam and high compression pistons at the moment its reconed its a 200 bhp lump all i know it beats most things off the lights and it goes like sh#t off a shovel

I'll give you a race of the lights...

Eliot wrote:

landy 88 v8 wrote:hey my landy is a series 2a with four pin diffs on 300 tdi discovery v8 axles coil conversion all round with a r380 five speed gearbox and a discovery transferbox with a rebuilt rover sd1 3.5 v8 with a highlift cam and high compression pistons at the moment its reconed its a 200 bhp lump all i know it beats most things off the lights and it goes like sh#t off a shovel

I'll give you a race of the lights...

Me too, me too! (only got 250BHP myself, so I think Eliot would win)

Let the lights be christmas tree shaped......

Chris.

"I'll give you a race of the lights... "
That is if you don't mash yet another gearbox in the process
Mike

ok guys i asked for that i did mean the poxy boy racers but as u guys have the big toys all i can do is buy a chevy small block 6.2 or summat with sum sort of yank transmission i really shud of learn to walk before i run and yes i thought ur comments were but im here to learn so soz

some pictures would still help
Learning is the fun bit, read all you can, there are loads of good books on the subjectand you can always google. There are the past threads on here which are pretty informative, look at what others on here have built Big al dart for instance (his is a pretty radical drag engine), Tom's MX5 engine and a couple the Nederland guys have build good road going supercharged engines.
Best regards
Mike

Hi,

well this a magnuson set for a serp belt rover


it will be challenge but i`m sure it will put a smile on your face when you run it

best of luck with the project

Andy

And this is a Magnuson Magnacharger110 set for Gilmer drive..

hey guy been doing sum reserch on that supercharger it a wade ro34 supercharger from a big lorry apparentley not a magneson charger so it wud be great if i cud get as much info and the best components to use for maximum power cheers guys and ive been tryin to find out if i got a bargain or not so i can set to work on more power

Just have a scan at the other threads, there are a couple on the Wade blower, keep the boost sensible and you can have a really good fun set up.

Alan