supercharging an 8v gti

[Khare]

I wish  Nah, just planning stuff out and making dreams come true 
I'll be working full time after the summer, so will be raking in the money....hopefully 

[Mew]

Where can MS be bought and how much does it cost? eBay?

There is a guy in the uk selling kits on ebay, but in the last month they have gone up a fair few quid. You're now looking at just over £200 delivered for MS1 v3 and over £250 for MS2, whereas from the States it's approx £140 for MS1 and £175 for MS2. That's delivered but plus taxes.

I swear they were around £130 on ebay.co.uk just before xmas. Really wish i'd bought one back then, but then i'd have even less money now

[Khare]

Where can MS be bought and how much does it cost? eBay?

There is a guy in the uk selling kits on ebay, but in the last month they have gone up a fair few quid. You're now looking at just over £200 delivered for MS1 v3 and over £250 for MS2, whereas from the States it's approx £140 for MS1 and £175 for MS2. That's delivered but plus taxes.

I swear they were around £130 on ebay.co.uk just before xmas. Really wish i'd bought one back then, but then i'd have even less money now

Whats the different between MS1 V3 and MS2? Guessing MS2 is more tunable and has more features.

[Mew]

Just google megasquirt and you will find more information than you will ever be bothered to read

[Khare]

Will do Mew, cheers mate 

[VeeDubGTI16v]

you could buy a corrado g60 with the money needed for all those parts!

[Alec]

Isnt the m45 the same one they use on the bmw cooper s? These were going for as little as £45 new a couple of years ago when people were having the 'works' kit fitted.

adaptorman said he built a supercharged 8valve using a merc charger, might be worth asking him if you are struggling, I'm sure he posted some info on his build thread the other day about some MS wizard that he had met

I full on want a supercharger under my bonnet, contemplating sourcing a rado G60 and ripping it to bits but if this method is going to work out cheaper I might be stealing your idea   .

[Khare]

you could buy a corrado g60 with the money needed for all those parts!

But then I'd end up with a corrado and not a golf!  

+ it's not THAT expensive. £300 for charger, £250 for MS, and add about £500 on random bits and bobs is just over a grand...for a grand you get a crap example of a genuine G60.
As long as I can fabricate my own brackets and other bits it shouldn't cost much above a grand.

Isnt the m45 the same one they use on the bmw cooper s? These were going for as little as £45 new a couple of years ago when people were having the 'works' kit fitted.

adaptorman said he built a supercharged 8valve using a merc charger, might be worth asking him if you are struggling, I'm sure he posted some info on his build thread the other day about some MS wizard that he had met

Yeah the M45 is from the cooper S, on ebay they are anything between £250 and £300 as far as I see, only 2 on tehre at the moment however. I'll chat to adaptorman at some point, after all he can probably build a supercharger using nothing more than a can of beans and a pencil sharpener 

[Wayne]

Isnt the m45 the same one they use on the bmw cooper s? These were going for as little as £45 new a couple of years ago when people were having the 'works' kit fitted.

adaptorman said he built a supercharged 8valve using a merc charger, might be worth asking him if you are struggling, I'm sure he posted some info on his build thread the other day about some MS wizard that he had met

I full on want a supercharger under my bonnet, contemplating sourcing a rado G60 and ripping it to bits but if this method is going to work out cheaper I might be stealing your idea   .

M45 is the one from a Mini cooper s also used on the clk230K I believe, should not say this but G60 is old tech now and things have moved on.

[VeeDubGTI16v]

But then I'd end up with a corrado and not a mk3 golf!  

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