Caporegime
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Some of you have been following my attempts to FI my mazda for a while now, right from the start of my GT28 setup which got put on hold due to manifold issues, right up till last month when i finally got my hands on a Jackson Racing M45 supercharger.
I've always found my car fantastic fun to drive, show it a tight country road and you can't help but smile and put your foot down, however i found the straightline speed on more open streatches of road a bit of a drag, its not a slow car by any stretch of the imagination, in stock trim mine makes 140bhp which is good for 130mph and 0-60 in 7.7ish seconds, but it seems to suffer from midrange pickup issues which can make fast overtaking not quite as quick as i would like.
To combat this i made the decision to FI my car, i changed my mind from a turbo setup to a supercharger for several reasons, firstly power delivery is very linear, which should retain the cars balance down a country road, for example when powering out of a corner, also with a supercharger i don't have to tap into the cars oil or water supply, further simplyfiing the installation.
So after the long wait for parts from the USA i finally have all the bits to make a start on giving my mazda some added zip!
Many of you will know the car in question, but for those who don't it looks like this :
In a previous project when i fitted my K&N Typhoon induction kit i'd already removed vast amounts of brackets and fittings so this actually simplified stage one of the superchager fitting since i din't need to remove loads of standard mazda junk first.
Original Mazda engine pic (Not my car!) :
Which changed to the following when the induction kit was fitted :
As you can see the standard Mazda airbox is gone, as it loads of the connecting pipework & brackets.
A few months back i fitted most of the electronics in preparation for doing a project like this, currently the car has a Boomslang harness, Emanage Ultimate (Fuel / Air / Timing / Knock), Innovate Motorports LC-1 & XD-16 (Wideband O2) and a 4 bar Greddy Map sensor, all of this allows me to map the car either off AFR or MAP, infact with these two inputs i can actually put the Manage into autotune mode and it will work out a basic map for the car by itself.
So with this out of the way, project 'Add power' went into stage 3 at 5pm when i got home from work, i finished work at 7:30 ish so a good 2.5 hours work.
In this time i have removed all signs of the Typhoon induction kit, removed the manifold heatshield / screenswash bottle and associated brackets, attached the supercharger mounting brackets to the manifold studs and engine block, mounted and aligned the supercharger onto the hangers, started to attach some of the vacum lines, fitted the crossover pipe between supercharger outlet and throttle body (not needed at the moment but i needed to seal up the inlets).
Pics in next post :
I've always found my car fantastic fun to drive, show it a tight country road and you can't help but smile and put your foot down, however i found the straightline speed on more open streatches of road a bit of a drag, its not a slow car by any stretch of the imagination, in stock trim mine makes 140bhp which is good for 130mph and 0-60 in 7.7ish seconds, but it seems to suffer from midrange pickup issues which can make fast overtaking not quite as quick as i would like.
To combat this i made the decision to FI my car, i changed my mind from a turbo setup to a supercharger for several reasons, firstly power delivery is very linear, which should retain the cars balance down a country road, for example when powering out of a corner, also with a supercharger i don't have to tap into the cars oil or water supply, further simplyfiing the installation.
So after the long wait for parts from the USA i finally have all the bits to make a start on giving my mazda some added zip!
Many of you will know the car in question, but for those who don't it looks like this :
In a previous project when i fitted my K&N Typhoon induction kit i'd already removed vast amounts of brackets and fittings so this actually simplified stage one of the superchager fitting since i din't need to remove loads of standard mazda junk first.
Original Mazda engine pic (Not my car!) :
Which changed to the following when the induction kit was fitted :
As you can see the standard Mazda airbox is gone, as it loads of the connecting pipework & brackets.
A few months back i fitted most of the electronics in preparation for doing a project like this, currently the car has a Boomslang harness, Emanage Ultimate (Fuel / Air / Timing / Knock), Innovate Motorports LC-1 & XD-16 (Wideband O2) and a 4 bar Greddy Map sensor, all of this allows me to map the car either off AFR or MAP, infact with these two inputs i can actually put the Manage into autotune mode and it will work out a basic map for the car by itself.
So with this out of the way, project 'Add power' went into stage 3 at 5pm when i got home from work, i finished work at 7:30 ish so a good 2.5 hours work.
In this time i have removed all signs of the Typhoon induction kit, removed the manifold heatshield / screenswash bottle and associated brackets, attached the supercharger mounting brackets to the manifold studs and engine block, mounted and aligned the supercharger onto the hangers, started to attach some of the vacum lines, fitted the crossover pipe between supercharger outlet and throttle body (not needed at the moment but i needed to seal up the inlets).
Pics in next post :
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Yes I know an exam on a Saturday! Hopefully there will be a late summer RR, may have a few goodies by then if insurance doesn't kill me...
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Looks like a good project, do you need any low compression head gaskets etc or is it a straight bolt on.