rotrex supercharger kit

Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:30 pm

Anyone got the link to the really long thread about the supercharger build.

I've searched for it and there are so many possibles, I can't find it! and the UPDATE thread too, I've seen them mentioned but everyone seems to have UPDATE or M40 and supercharger in their bloody threads I must have read 20 of them now and no joy.

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And if I read another asking about the bleeding mini cooper s supercharger I'll sceam!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:36 pm

I've Btt'd the update thread, there are links to Lennies own site with build info

HTH

Thu Aug 31, 2006 7:41 pm

If you need anything translating then give me a shout.

G

Thu Aug 31, 2006 11:49 pm

GDBN wrote:If you need anything translating then give me a shout.

G

thanks very much but they kindly do it in english as well!!

the only problem is they havn't replied to my email yet but it was only tuesday!!...we live in hope

Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:01 pm

My personal experience of Schmiedmann is they are a bunch of next to useless wankers.
There's a company called koed www.koed.dk ... much better.
Don't know if they do superchargers though.

G

Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:11 pm

i think i will try the guy at rotrex again and i see wht you mean about schmiedman ...not a peep

Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:44 am

lowen designs was selling this kit for like $3500 us dollars then they just dissappered there site doesn't work and every once in a while i will see some of there old inventory on ebay i had hear they were tring to sell the biz. That aside i would love to get one of those Rotrex chargers on my car they rock all the benifits of a turbo and supercharger and hardly none of the down sides of either.

Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:00 am

This company advertises them but have no email; address. u(unless i missed something). you are local ,,,give them a ring

http://machschnell.com/superchargers.html.

Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:27 pm

just to start this thread of again I have been offered(subject to availibity) the rotex kit in the UK. the price i have been quoted is Ãƒ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬2400 +vat..(Ãƒ”šÃ‚£2K).anybody besides me interested (maybe cheaper for 2+)and a question to all you fi aficionados are there any hidden probs down the road

Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:49 am

DaveD wrote:just to start this thread of again I have been offered(subject to availibity) the rotex kit in the UK. the price i have been quoted is Ãƒ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬2400 +vat..(Ãƒ”šÃ‚£2K).anybody besides me interested (maybe cheaper for 2+)and a question to all you fi aficionados are there any hidden probs down the road

I'd love to join you Dave, but I'll not have that kind of money together until next year probably

But let me know how you get on with it!

Whereabouts in the UK did you get offered the kit?

Mon Sep 18, 2006 10:00 am

i would be interested, but not at this point as I dont have the fund available! Would probably be into next year if not longer. Would also need to see if there is space and my engine bay is a completely different shape to the E30!

Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:08 am

i will pass the message on to my supplier , jazzman the thing fits where the aircon unit would fit normaly so it should fit but i dont know about the intercooler which fit in front of the radiator.

all that power with so little weight ..it would FLY

Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:12 am

erm outta interest do they do this kit for the 318is

Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:19 am

I will ask

Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:36 am

DaveD wrote:i will pass the message on to my supplier , jazzman the thing fits where the aircon unit would fit normaly so it should fit but i dont know about the intercooler which fit in front of the radiator.

all that power with so little weight ..it would FLY

I've got lots of room around where the PAS pump was and there is some on the on the other side of the engine too, like you said the intercooler would be the biggest issue - no where to run the pipes! Will have to see, may once someones got this kit fitted to an E30 I could have bit of a look around at a meet!

Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:20 pm

i have got to bite the bullet

Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:38 pm

If Koed's prices are right .. you can get the Rotrex kit for about Ãƒ”šÃ‚£1875.
Can't have aircon or power steering tho'.

G

If you want to see their stuff .. www.koed.dk
Choose E30 of course and then click on "downloads" .. e30 .. tuning

Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:06 pm

their site doesn't work for me! can get in but wont do any links

i have been quoted Ãƒ¢Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ã‚¬2400 x 0.69=Ãƒ”šÃ‚£1656 x 1.175%=Ãƒ”šÃ‚£1945.80...my guy said that the powersteering was now available. must have changed a pulley

david

Mon Sep 18, 2006 1:37 pm

Direct link to the PDF:

http://www.koed.dk/pdfkataloger/e30/18.pdf

Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:15 pm

My computer only likes their pdf up to page 2..and then i have to translate it ........i will try it at home..

Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:30 pm

JazzMan wrote:Direct link to the PDF:

http://www.koed.dk/pdfkataloger/e30/18.pdf

Can you get this in english, please!?

Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:17 pm

garyp_E30_325i wrote:
JazzMan wrote:Direct link to the PDF:

http://www.koed.dk/pdfkataloger/e30/18.pdf
Can you get this in english, please!?

I clicked united kingdom and thats the one I got, you can look at the pictures though!

I'll have another look and see if i can find an English one.

Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:17 pm

I downloaded the info in English from their site, there's a language toggle somewhere.

Instructions are the usual, unbolt this, fit that job jobbed affair, but better than most I've seen.

Retaining the AFM is so wrong though

looks like it comes supplied with a RRFPR too.

Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:23 pm

TURBO the only way to go superchrger wrongness the 2.5 is to small to benifit from a supercharger 5.8 V8 then you are talking business

Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:31 pm

why didn't anyone read the beginning of this thread

http://static.schmiedmann.dk/Danish/acr ... lation.pdf :

Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:39 pm

at the present I do some homework on supercharging and turbocharging (I have ordered books from amazon.com) the more I read ,more I have doupts whether you can build a really reliable and usable engine, factories loose hours and funds to do so a private can?

Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:47 pm

the PDF I linked to wasnt the instructions, its a PDF of tuning parts

Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:56 pm

at the present I do some homework on supercharging and turbocharging (I have ordered books from amazon.com) the more I read ,more I have doupts whether you can build a really reliable and usable engine, factories loose hours and funds to do so a private can?

It's a common misconception that a tuned engine is less reliable, a badly built/setup engine in any state of tune will be unreliable.

Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:59 pm

no my question is whether a private can build a reliable engine I would like to listen of people that have forced induction if they are pleased at the and of the day

Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:19 am

Not sure if you guys have seen this but e30tech have a dedicated super charger section now: http://www.e30tech.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=53

Might be of some interest