During all my noise making spring and summer 2008 this little red chested bird nested and bred and raised 2 babybirds a meter away from my car. I let them sh!t on my car this year but next year it should find another place. Look at my front cambelt cover for example.
Then I decided to do an EFI (electronic fuel injection) conversion and get rid of the ancient Bosch K-jetronic injection and Marelli Digiplex ignition systems. I plan to use a Megasquirt II injection and ignition controller with Ford EDIS-8 distributerless ignition. I adapted the inlet manifolds for the use of electronic Bosch style injectors and for the EDIS system I made a 36-1 tooth trigger wheel mounted on the crank harmonic balancer and a VR sensor mounted on the front cambelt cover. There are many sites explaining Megasquirt and the Ford EDIS 8 system were I get my information, so I'm not going into it here.
I can't perform the most basic tasks without bloodshed.
Then I bought a Mercedes SL55 AMG Supercharger (or Kompressor)... That wasn't planned originally but I saw it on ebay and thought what the heck, let's do it. It is basically the same supercharger that brings the SLR McLaren to 650 HP but I will be happy with 400, though 350 is more realistic and 300 is already enough, the standard engine has only 215 HP. I plan and build the system to have 1 bar overboost (14.7 PSI) and will see were I get. I have no experience in this so I have to do a lot of research.
It is a Lysholm patent screw type supercharger build by IHI in Japan, more efficient at high boost than the rootes type (like the smaller Eaton used in the Mercedes 180-200-230 Kompressor). I cut off all the Merc spec inlet manifold stuff from the casting. Would look cool sitting in the V of the engine but I thought it would be easier to side mount it and have space for the regular inlet plenum and air to air intercoolers.
It has internal gearing and I had to know exactly how many teeth each gear had, to determine what crank shaft pulley I need. I plan a final gearing of 2:1 so at 7000 rpm engine speed the large rotor spins at 14000, and the smaller one at 23000. This is the same speed as in the Merc 320 AMG that has a smaller blower, so I will have more boost and power, good. Actually it is just trial and error to get the right amount of boost but this will be the starting point.
These channels were used for the coolant flow of the air to water intercoolers in the Merc, I cut threads in them to use them as mounting points.
