View Full Version : Supercharged 2.9 in the works!


BroncoIIBad
Aug 18 2001, 03:23pm
I bought a Eaton Roots M90 supercharger from the JY of a 90 model ford cougar XR7 with a 3.8. I got the S/C, MAF, TB, Intercooler, Intercooler tubes, and a set of 24#/hr injectors for the low low price of $50 bucks. The JY guy told me I had to take it off because he didn't want his workers to screw it up taking it off. The original deal was $50 for just the S/C and I figered since I was out there takeing it off by my sef, I may as well help myself to all the other goodies i got hehehehehehe. Anyway, i have been talking with Brian mcKelvy(He fabricated an intake to mount an M90 to his 2000 4.0) and he has been a big help.
I can simplify the instalation by bolting the S/C directly to the lower intake via and adaptor or I can flip it over like ford did and use the intercooler i have and realive more power out of it. The S/C is in tip top shape and it was cheap as hell so I may realize some real power out of this 2.9er after all.
Brian had a very good idea about getting a dummy motor to test fit and make all of the brackets before I mount it all to my actual engine. Basically I am going to have to convert to MAF, fabricate an upper intake, fabricate crank pulley to drive S/C and mount S/C to line up with it, mount my intercooler and i think I might just mount an electric fan to it. That is just the big stuff, i am sure there will be other little things i will have to do before I finish but it will be fun, especially with all my friends and stuff so unwillingly to help and telling me i can't do it, you just wait until another one of them ask me to "help"(which means do everything) them with installing there drop kit. Uh no.
I really have to give a shot out to JP, I bet he went through the same stuff i am going through. Maybe when I get done, in about 6 months or more, we can meet up at a truck show and race em or something hehe.