Anybody tried this?

[Ed Kellock]

"That's not entirely accurate"  (Independece Day)

I'm not even sure he's ever done a second one, but there's a guy here
in town who had an 80q who worked for a supercharger place called
Rimmer.  I'm not sure if Rimmer is still in business but that doesn't
matter because the guy with the 80q left there, sold his 80q and
became a (the?) Klemann distributor for MBenz which is located here in
Colorado Springs.  A friend of mine and fellow Audi owner is friends
with this guy and he's going to stop by their shop in a little while
to see if the guy has any interest whatsoever in redoing what he did
to his 80.  My Coupe GT has the NG engine and I will offer it readily
as a development mule if so.  I have not really been interested in
supercharging my FWD CGT, but I wouldn't hate it either.  ;-)

Back when he was at Rimmer I took my V8 5spd and he wagged about 5
grand to do an s/c on it.  At the time it was not an option, but he
did have a 100 or A6 in the shop at the time which was getting a s/c
installed.

The type of s/c he uses is rotary (?) and it was installed within the
metered air path, IIRC and he had it plumbed with some sort of bypass
so it would work smoothly for on/off throttle transitions.

I drove the car and it pulled like a big V8 from the first crack of
the throttle.  It kind of petered out on the top end, but it wasn't
completely fleshed out yet at the time and he was playing with or
considering some water injection or something.  I do remember that he
had an oversized s/c on it because he was planning bigger and better
things for it down the line so I think he had something dialed back
somehow on the top end to protect the engine.

Anyway, it was exactly the sort of transformation I have always wanted
for my 3.6 liter PT V8 here at 6k feet altitude.

There's a post here:
http://gallery.mbnz.org/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=719498&start=1&fid=6
that talks about how they flew a guy to TN to do a customer car, not
that that really has anything to do with this.

Ed

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:39:19 -0500, S Dewitt <sdewitt at stx.rr.com> wrote:
> no one makes a supercharger kit for the NG engine. It will be up to you to
> design one.
> 
> Scott DeWitt
> Advanced Automotion
> 817-939-6761