Turbo and Supercharged KA

[tunerinms]

Ok so i was reading Hot Rod the other day and came across a twin turbo setup for a supercharged Mustang. The kit is designed to go on a stock supercharged V8 like a Cobra or something. They dyno tested it with the full kit at over 1000hp to the wheels. Crazy. Its running 16lbs out of the turbos and 23lbs after the charger. I was wanting to do something different and have some good power and all that but i couldnt make up my mind. What do yall think of a Thomas Knight supercharger kit with a turbo on the other end on a KA24DE?

[simmode1]

Twin Charging is an old concept. Haven't seen it done to a KA yet though. Probably because few ppl want to dump that much money into that motor.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=AuJEXp-EKso - Same setup



There.

There's a guy who's local to me that has a supercharged KA. I'm sure he chime in soon. But it seems that most ppl avoid the Thomas Knight setup like the plague. I have no idea why though.

[RCA]

I would jump on an Engineering forum and check out how these twin charged setup work. This way you know what you are in for.

They are cool ideas.

ALSO search Bee R S15 on YouTube for an twin charged SR

[slideordie85]

Here is a setup most AW11 (1st Gen MR2):

http://www.toycrazy.net/tech/p...m.jpg

HKS use to make a kit for the 4AGZE to "Twin Charge" it. Its been out of production for years.

It has been done on cars but none to my knowledge on a S13.

[slyedog240sx]

But it seems that most ppl avoid the Thomas Knight setup like the plague. I have no idea why though.

Most likely the fact that its electric.At least thats all the site shows.The twin fi setup would be awesome since the supercharger will make up for turbo lag, but idk if the ka can handle the boost, and even if it could with all forged internals, the cost would be insane over a good turbo setup.

[simmode1]

Most likely the fact that its electric.At least thats all the site shows.The twin fi setup would be awesome since the supercharger will make up for turbo lag, but idk if the ka can handle the boost, and even if it could with all forged internals, the cost would be insane over a good turbo setup.

Yes. Therein lies the problem. To build a reliable KA-T able to produce 400+hp, you're looking at spending around $7g's. This will be an awesome motor. But to add a supercharger will needlessly complicate something that didn't need fixing and increase your budget dramatically.

The novelty will outweigh the functionality & the cost is prohibitive, IMO. If you've got $10,000 to put into a KA, just buy a different car. I believe you should only FI a KA if you can do it reliably & more cheap than switching to another motor. F all that transforming the motor into something completely different from what it started as b.s. That's one huge headache. Just my opinion.

[tunerinms]

Ya thats something i have to worry about. Well i guess SR here i come lol.

[xX RB Xx]

ive wanted to do this concept for a while..

but im broke