Blackcoog
Hard-core CEG'er
I finally decided got some time to install our supercharger kit on a SVT Contour. It's a 1999 3L SVT Contour that will eventually be my daily driver. The kit is the base kit on our site that will put out around 6psi. There is no intercooler or BOV as recommended by vortech for this psi range. Dyno numbers should be exactly the same as the previous vortech kits as it's the same head unit (spins CCW though instead or CW). You have no shaft that will fail like on Vortech's kits. Running a front mount intercooler is as easy as swapping out a straight pipe for an intercooler.
So far things have been going great. The supercharger fits under the Contour hood. :laugh: The aluminum coolant tank worked out great. A huge plus was keeping the battery up front even with the intake piping and coolant tank next to it. I switched to a smaller battery I found at Walmart. It is not possible to use a DMD with this kit. The DMD is significantly wider and I use a pulley stacked on the stock crank pulley to drive the supercharger. The pulleys wouldn't line up if you used a DMD.
There is a decent amount of cutting involved in either the Contour or Cougar. Here are the required modifications:
-I removed the fender and cut a hole near the stock coolant tank location so the piping can get out of the engine bay and down toward the bumper.
-Part of the fender support in that area also needs to be trimmed otherwise the wheel splash guard won't fit back in place without really mashing against the piping. You could keep your windshield washer tank if you cut the filler neck down. The air filter won't fit on the supercharger otherwise.
-The black steel plate that sits on top of the passenger side engine mount needs a rib cut down for the supercharger bracket to bolt up.
-The engine mount on the passenger side has a thin rib that needs to be trimmed down which allows for the head unit adjustment without bottoming out on that rib.
-The oil drain on the bottom of the supercharger doesn't have enough room to run a 90 degree fitting so a hole needs to be cut near the washer tank to run the oil drain line down. That area is boxed in so you also need to cut a small hole further down for the oil line to come out near the oil pan.
-Then finally a hole under the battery distribution box needs to be cut to run the piping up to the MAF and into the intake. You could use the intake from Nautilus fairly easily. I had a GMK intake on the mockup car so I went that route.
I took pictures of everything throughout the install so I can get a very nice install guide put together. I'll post up some pictures when the kit is finished in the next day or two.
Chris
So far things have been going great. The supercharger fits under the Contour hood. :laugh: The aluminum coolant tank worked out great. A huge plus was keeping the battery up front even with the intake piping and coolant tank next to it. I switched to a smaller battery I found at Walmart. It is not possible to use a DMD with this kit. The DMD is significantly wider and I use a pulley stacked on the stock crank pulley to drive the supercharger. The pulleys wouldn't line up if you used a DMD.
There is a decent amount of cutting involved in either the Contour or Cougar. Here are the required modifications:
-I removed the fender and cut a hole near the stock coolant tank location so the piping can get out of the engine bay and down toward the bumper.
-Part of the fender support in that area also needs to be trimmed otherwise the wheel splash guard won't fit back in place without really mashing against the piping. You could keep your windshield washer tank if you cut the filler neck down. The air filter won't fit on the supercharger otherwise.
-The black steel plate that sits on top of the passenger side engine mount needs a rib cut down for the supercharger bracket to bolt up.
-The engine mount on the passenger side has a thin rib that needs to be trimmed down which allows for the head unit adjustment without bottoming out on that rib.
-The oil drain on the bottom of the supercharger doesn't have enough room to run a 90 degree fitting so a hole needs to be cut near the washer tank to run the oil drain line down. That area is boxed in so you also need to cut a small hole further down for the oil line to come out near the oil pan.
-Then finally a hole under the battery distribution box needs to be cut to run the piping up to the MAF and into the intake. You could use the intake from Nautilus fairly easily. I had a GMK intake on the mockup car so I went that route.
I took pictures of everything throughout the install so I can get a very nice install guide put together. I'll post up some pictures when the kit is finished in the next day or two.
Chris
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