Originally posted by Rara:
I do believe a non-intercooled positive displacement SC could be fit into the "valley" if someone were willing to put enough time, money and effort into it.

The real question is, is it worth it?


I don't doubt it could fit in the valley. That's not the issue.

Your runner length would be atrocious. Your power output would be substandard. I agree about the "would it be worth it part" too!


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I think the main issue to look at is the FEAD.

The clearance between the engine and strut tower is beyond minimal.
Even if you lost the power steering (I've driven without it and that's NOT an option!) and also made a flat engine mount you still have to figure out a way to get the belt to go around a pulley.

Look at the room once. You can't have the pulley above the engine mount because then the belt would have to be around the mount as well.
Also you just don't have the clearance for it to be that high anyway even using a flat mount. You have to consider the height the pulley would add.

That means you would have to design some kind of sideways V shaped setup to locate the pulley below the mount. That means a flat mount wouldn't work anyway and definitely not an arched one like the stock mount.
So going around the mount is probably just not an option.
That would likely mean the only way to get the snout and pulley clearance is a solid mount from the engine directly to the strut tower. The belt would have to go around the mount meaning it would have to be a two piece mount and belt changes would suck.

Also since there is no place to move the P/S pump it's pretty much a moot point. I suppose you could loose the A/C unit and fabricate a mount there so it's not completely out of the question. However that means getting custom high pressure lines made. Nothing comes cheap of course.


So what are your ideas to get it to fit Rara?

I can think of plenty of reasons it probably won't, but anything's better then a jackshaft right...

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