Screw Turbos...I'm Supercharged Now...

[ZDaddy]

Joking...
This was taken a while back when someone on Z31.com posted asking about superchargers and someone
recommended the stock Thunderbird supercharger. Well my buddy and I read this and just so happened to have
2 Thunderbird SC's laying in a corner of his garage. So we bust out laughing, ran and got one of them, opened my hood and
slapped it on the plenum. He topped it off by putting a belt on it, we nearly hit the floor when I connected it to my AC. :lol:

We planned on posting it up on Z31.com but never got around to it.

[2+2turbo]

lol , i like your hood "prop" a la visegrips!

what i did was crimp the cylinder (the black part) a little with the visegrips on the bottom and it stays pretty good..

[ZDaddy]

2+2turbo wrote: lol , i like your hood "prop" a la visegrips!

what i did was crimp the cylinder (the black part) a little with the visegrips on the bottom and it stays pretty good..

Yeah my supports are shot. I keep forgetting to buy new ones. The other day, one of them just started peeing all over the place.
At first I thought the sound was my battery exploding :lol:

[Az4u2c]

HaHa. Good laugh. I love the hood prop. Mine keep getting more and more pathetic it's only a matter of time. I put new ones in the hatch (did anybody know that 2 seater struts are actaully longer than 2+2s?) a couple months ago finally so i could get rid of the broken ice scraper that was used as a prop. Post this on zcar.com maybe they'll bite.

[ZDaddy]

Az4u2c wrote: Post this on zcar.com maybe they'll bite.

Will do! Stay tuned...

Edit:
Ok I posted.
The thing about fishing is you need to have patience...we cast, now we wait.

[ZDaddy]

Edit2:
Wow I caught some sucker fish! :lol:
http://www.zcar.com/forums/read.php?f=2 ... 7&t=174847

[Z_Karma]

Buhwahahahaha...this is going to be good.
Red October = FISH ON!!!

[2+2turbo]

lol! :lol:

[xXxRocker5150]

ROFL, that's awesome...

[84z31]

man. couldn't they see the picture?

there wasn't any intake piping on there. they are suckers. 'round here we cut thier heads off and throw them on the bank when we catch them. :lol:

[Steve88t]

I wouldn't knock Ryans car. It was pretty fast until the CV joint broke. NO that is not even close to ideal and they know about the problems with the design. But the point of was that a 15 yr old kid did that more or less on his own. To my knowledge the first to do so that actually ran. It also fits rather close to the parts sticking through when it's closed.

[300zxt]

[quote=Steve88t]I wouldn't knock Ryans car...quote]

I would lol

[ZDaddy]

300zxt wrote: I love the hood "cut out" if you can even call it that lol You know your engine modding skills aren't the best when you need a hole cut in the hood big enough for 3 people to climb out of at the same time.well it seems it needs to be that size in order to give room for the piping and belts. This is actually really impressive, but it just shows how god awful a SC looks on a Z31. Now if it were side mounted somehow in place of the AC or something it might ok, but the piping is something to figure out!
Steve88t wrote: To my knowledge the first to do so that actually ran.

What about the TSS supercharger kit...hasnt anyone ever slapped on of those on?

I'm going to post this picture up on Zcar.com. I feel bad for bursting some people's bubble :?

[2+2turbo]

there was another guy who put a centrifugal? SC where the a/c used to be at , he actually used to post on zcar and then i think he migrated to z31.com . it was a white car , i wonder what happened to him...

[300zxt]

ZDaddy wrote:
well it seems it needs to be that size in order to give room for the piping and belts. This is actually really impressive, but it just shows how god awful a SC looks on a Z31. Now if it were side mounted somehow in place of the AC or something it might ok, but the piping is something to figure out!
I know how come it needs to be that size, but why someone would do that is beyond me...

2+2turbo wrote: there was another guy who put a centrifugal? SC where the a/c used to be at , he actually used to post on zcar and then i think he migrated to z31.com . it was a white car , i wonder what happened to him...

You mean this one...



http://www.300zxt.com/videos/supercharged-z31.wmv (7.15MB)

For the money it would of cost vs the amount of power it would be putting out doesn't make that setup all that cost efficient but the wow factor is extreme and at least the damn hood closes lol It looks almost factory...