Supercharging the 180
 

hi all im new here!

just a quick question, i know this has probablys been answered loads of times but struggling to find a thread with the right info...

from a standard ZS 180, how much do use rekon it will cost to supercharge?

from standard to a finished supercharged car?

any advice would be great

anth

Budget about £1k-£2k realistically, I know that there was problems of the engines blowing sometimes

2k is dreaming.

yes there were issues early on with the supercharged kv6, but these are now sorted.

The price for a supercharged zs is now 3.4k

Cheers

George

i have heard of people similar power gains by just chipping camming and putting a decent exhaust on.

has it jumped that much now? Why on earth such a high jump.

Jumped up! That is cheap! The last official price was circa £5k.

You won't get similar gains from chipping, cams and exhaust, you'd be lucky to break 220bhp tbh and that's being kind.

Supercharging is still seen as one of those risk areas on the KV6, so many failed in the early days that it put people off, those that are offering the systems are finding it hard to get a vested interest due to the bad press.

It needs a few customers out there to soak test them and prove reliability. Hopefully the Revivals team can develop this as well on their rallycross ZS.

you say you may get 220 bhp. there was a supercharged zs on here that only got to 230. i would call that similar

230 must have been wound down to keep it stress free, they should hit nearer 250/260 at a guess. I'm not qualified in that department, so don't quote me on that ;)

i think i'll just be selling the zs and spending another £3k on a faster car like an evo or scooby, makes sense lol!

Out of curiosity once you have done cams, exhaust etc and are running around 220 what kind of gains would a charger get? also what else can you do for better gains? :)