It flows enough air for the 6.2l, can make up to about 14psi before charge temps soar, why not?
Thats why I come to you guys today.
Ive been discussing this with some guys over on the fiero.nl forum, and what it seems, that this could be feasible.
Now I know most folks here would say "turbo is free power..etc etc" but I don't have $3000 to shell out, I have a free supercharger, impressive fabrication skills, and an 86 sub. This could be run into the category of 'sh!ts n' giggles' You know, do it just to do it. This truck is my daily beater, and I think this would just be too much fun.
With that said, lets work out the technicalities.
1. mounting, well I have 2 manifold choices, the hummer intake I have on there now, or the stock egr manifold. Either i can hack up, or fabricate an adapter plate ontop. Or I could fabricate an entirely new manifold...
2. After cooler... Will sit beneath the supercharger, made from an old oil cooler from a Saab turbo. I will use a bilge pump to move the coolant from the after cooler to a small radiator located in front of the stock radiator.
3. Fuel... As of now I have the c-code IP, stock (new) injectors. Would the c-code IP move enough fuel? I want a new one anyways, which should I aim for? (again only looking for about 12-14psi boost)
4. Belts.... I am in search of the serp belt setup off a newer 6.5l, I think I have found one. Once installed and the supercharger fab'd up, I can determine the new length of belt and any additional tensioners/idlers that I may need.
5. Tuning... Now we don't get the luxury of an ecm or any sort of control over our injection. But I wonder what the California emmisions control ecm did exactly? If I could monitor things such as tps position, egt's, coolant temp, rpm, intake temp, and mass air flow, I could have some important data to attempt to make changes to the fuel.
6. Exhaust.... I have fabricated headers in the past, so it seems reasonable to me to make some for the burb. Maybe have a couple of header flanges punched out of some 3/8 mild steel, and adapt a set of big block long tube headers. (mainly because the big block headers are made for our trucks and that the exhaust port spacing on the 6.2l is pretty close to that of a big block). Run it out to dual 3 inch pipes all the way back to some sort of muflers.
7. Intake... Lastly, the superchargers inlet will face the firewall/cowl area. I could run a 3 inch j-pipe in an almost 180* 3inch radius out from behind the supercharger and lead to the stock fresh air supply. Or run it straight into the cowl area and find some way to get a filter in there.
Any thoughts?
I know some of you are scratching your head thinking 'WHY the hell..' But I am a creative person and I like to do things that haven't been done yet. Ive shoe horned several engines that don't belong into a fiero into one, adapted several different cars ecms into one workable system, and even made intake manifolds from fiberglass. I like to go out side of the box...WAY outside of the box. Sometimes it works, sometimes its a good hour of laughter. Either way, its my hobby and my fun.
Well thanks for any help guys!