little help needed please. supercharger.

[ackerley]

im thinking about putting a supercharger on my car. and changing it to a carb instead of fuel injection.
I have a 1989 318i auto. I have seen a weber carb for a 1983 316 auto which i belive is a 1.8.
will this fit mine, if not what should i be looking for.

cheers for any help you all can give
chris

[e21Jason]

Hi

Your best to get a carb of a turbo car as the pressure can blow the seals.

Jason

[michael24m]

the carb engine should fit in no problems, easy conversion, but why go for carb? you'll also need the manual gearbox, and cutting down the electrics.

...lots of fiddeling and tuning with the carb engine...

[Ant]

the carb will be from an M10 engine, yours will have the M40 engine, the intake is totally wrong

in short, its a non started.

for S/C or turbo you're better retaining the EFI dude, the ignition timing will require some mods to prevent detonantion

HTH

[michael24m]

oh sorry, now i realised, you want only to fit the carb body?
i tought you ment swaping the whole engine with the carburetor one.swaping the m40 with the m10

[Ant]

swaping the m40 with the m10

now thats a good plan !, I'd still use EFI though, M10 on some bike Tb's with Ms and a supercharger.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[ackerley]

for S/C or turbo you're better retaining the EFI dude, the ignition timing will require some mods to prevent detonantion

what sort of mods would i need to do.

ive been out today asking if places can can sort the fuel injection to work with the super charger instead of changing to carb but ive had no results.

cheers

[Ant]

been out today asking if places can can sort the fuel injection to work with the super charger instead of changing to carb but ive had no results.

well we bin the motronic and use a standalone ECU to run the beast dude

the clue is in my signature text do a forum search on Megasquirt, will throw up most of the answers you're looking for

[ackerley]

so all i need to get is the supercharger and the magasquirt ecu??

what about fitting the supercharger, is there a kit out there (ive had a look but cant find anything) or is it a diy job.

im thinking on using one from the mini cooper s (think its an eaton 45 or somthing)

what sort of money will i be looking for a megasquirt ecu?

[DaveD]

go looking on http://www.e30tech.com for advice about supercharging...no one seems to like the mini one as they say its too small

have a look on this thread as well