Land Cruiser Supercharger
Submitted: Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 01:44
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Hardskin
Hello everyone. I am new to this
forum, or to any
forum indeed so this will be a new experience for me.
Now to the problem that brings me here... I am looking at options to increase both torque and power on a 2003 4.5L petrol 100-series (It's actually a GCC car). The supercharger seems like the obvious solution, only they seem to be available for 6-cylinder cars up to '97 but not for later models. Does anyone have experience with fitting a supercharger to a later car? Any help will be much appreciated.
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Reply By: Trekkie (Member - WA) - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 02:10
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 02:10
Do you mean Turbo
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Follow Up By: ThePunter - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:12
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:12
No he means a Supercharger:
Supercharger
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Follow Up By: Member No 1- Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:50
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:50
if they cant do it ThePunter no one can
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Follow Up By: Hardskin - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:12
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:12
I do mean supercharger indeed. Turbos are very common for the 4.2L Diesel, and easy to install with that, but quite rare for the petrol engine. Wouldn't say no to a good Turbo kit though if there's one around...
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Follow Up By: Member No 1- Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:48
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:48
Hardskin...CAPA (the link above) have supercharger kits using a real blower ..EATON not just those belt driven fans
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Follow Up By: BenSpoon - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 20:05
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 20:05
Last I heard CAPA were redoing their design for the 4.5 for more power, which got me interested. Then I heard the $7k price.
THEN I heard how much it is for fitting.
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Reply By: Member - Willie , Epping .Syd. - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:23
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 07:23
Maybe the problem with the later ones is that the computer has to be re-written and it is a huge job . I know that was a big problem when guys were supercharging the late model BMWs where as we had no problems when I put a turbo on my old E30 1997 BMW.
Willie .
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Reply By: Member - Oldplodder (QLD) - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:45
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 08:45
I have heard of a bloke on the
gold coast who has supercharged the 4.5l petrol.
Ran it at Mt Cotton
hill climb and beat all the WRXs, so it has power. Were soe srprised looks at the time he did. I think he ran it in the Qld Challenge (like a small version of the Tasie Targa) last year and did reasonably
well.
Can't remember the name or details but hopefully this will prompt some one else to remember. Or else you could try a google search or such like.
Of course there is power and POWER! :-).
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Follow Up By: Hardskin - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:14
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:14
I'll look it up, thanks for the tip.
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Follow Up By: Scoey (QLD) - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:23
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:23
There's a member on this
forum who has supercharged his 4.5L 80 Series but I can't remember his name - His rig
pic is a silver 80. Anyway there was a post on here ages ago about it - I'll try and dig it up! Hang five...
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Follow Up By: Scoey (QLD) - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:34
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:34
The members screen name is DOZER and have a read of post 26496 for some interesting info. I'll try post a link to it:
Supercharger Post
No idea if that will work! haha!
Cheers
Scoey!
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Follow Up By: Scoey (QLD) - Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:36
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:36
HOLY SH*T!!! It worked! I was backing me to stuff that one up! :-D Anyway back to superchargers - keep us posted with what you do Hardskin - I'd be interested to hear how it goes!
Scoey.
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Reply By: Member - DOZER- Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 22:35
Friday, Mar 17, 2006 at 22:35
Check out AVO web site, they do turbo systems for the 4.5 now. Safari are out of the australian market. Kazuma are the name of the supercharger systems made for the 4.5....LP1 in
melbourne used to sell them, also TRD on the net sell them.
It doesnt take much to get the 4.5 to go better :)
Andrew
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