making a custom intercooler doesn't scare me anymore
found some nice Laminova water to air cores...so it's gonna be much easier.
also bumped into a picture of an S/C mounted to the I/C
so here are my interim conclusions (I know some may sound obvious or stupid, but I prefer to take it slowly)
1. supercharging a ca18det has been done before.
2. it takes lots of fabrication.
3. I may end up with something not even close to my initial goals.
4. It's expensive (at least for me)
5. I now have even more questions than when I started this thread
6. I found most of required parts for this project.
7. I have a more or less complete vision of the setup
and just to sum up the idea, I'm going to be using the following parts:
1. '02-04 Nissan Xterra/Frontier Eaton M62 S/C
2. Custom Water-to-Air I/C
3. Custom intake manifold setup (meaning that the I/C will be connected almost directly to the lower intake manifold of the CA block)
4. Water-to-Air I/C heat exchanger & pump
5. Some piping (for air intake)
6. Custom adapter (S/C-to-I/C)
7. Ford Lightning belt tensioner
8. Some kind of S/C belt (I don't know which one yet)
9. a custom pulley for the crank (maybe..I don't know, might try using the A/C one)
I don't know if this is interesting to anyone but me, but the CA18 S/C idea has taken over my mind