Supercharged Hornet

[superchargedhornet]

This picture was taken when i first got the car after it was off the road for about 18 years:

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk143/hornetob/h1ornet4-Copy.jpg

The car has since been fully resprayed twice, with two sets of front wings and numerous new panels:

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk143/hornetob/20072008267.jpg

This was the car down at Lyme Regis Cobb before the second respray:

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk143/hornetob/DSC01665.jpg

Here is the supercharger conversion almost complete. I have not bought a kit, all parts have been designed and manufactured by myself with a bit of help from a friend.

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk143/hornetob/DSC02907.jpg

This is a picture of the rapid protoyped model of the crankshaft pulley designed by myself on CAD:

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk143/hornetob/DSC02731.jpg

Under the bonnet is the Eaton M45 Supercharger, duplex timing gear, lightened flywheel, hif44,1275cc (actually around 1311cc with the decompression plate), LCB exhaust, minisport superflow exhaust.
The body is now fully restored and resprayed with a factory britax weather shield sunroof, old english white with black roof, fibreglass double skin doors now 4kg instead of the usual 20kg. These are very high quality made in three sections and bonded together by myself up at Arc Angels back when they were starting out, these are not the usual rubbish only suitable for the race track!
Suspension wise it is now fitted with dry suspension, hi-lo's, Koni Sport dampers, dunlop alloys with Yokohama A0008's. Think thats about it!

This picture was on the rolling road at work:

http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk143/hornetob/02052008044.jpg

I took this one last year at silverstone:
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk143/hornetob/25102008082-2.jpg

I had a few issues recently with the decompression plate so have put the car back to normally aspirated with a view to a sightly different direction. I've just picked up a race spec formula bmw engine (based upon the k1200rs engine used by specialist components for their bike head conversions) which I plan to use the head on my hornet. This will be used with the eaton m45, four injectors in the manifold runners (still to be made) and a throttle body upstream of the charger. This will be run with a programmable ecu (DTA, Emerald or Megasquirt as recently recommended by gr4h4m).

I know it's not a mini but hopefully will be of interest to some of you! Let me know your thoughts....

[Gr4H4m]

nice project.. well done on the kit..

what power did you make at what PSI?

[superchargedhornet]

It was making 102 bhp, 135 lb/ft of torque at about 1 1/4 bar of boost.

How does that compare to yours?

[Gr4H4m]

The best run I have had is 62BHP At the Wheels at about 9PSI. I have a 12g295 head and 1.5''s everything else is standard. I would guess that I'm about late 80's to early 90 bhp at the fly. in the Good fun bracket.

I would love to see it on a 1061 with a fully worked head and a supercharger cam, (Stuart Gurr has just started SC cams). I bet it would hit the 70 ATW and about 115 at the fly. so the same as the 7's at a fraction of the cost, of one of their engines...

[Gr4H4m]

hells bells you were running 18PSI.... holy smoke.. thats some boost I bet those inlet temps rocketed and on a dizzy too.. you must of been at 0Deg TDC

I bet it was great fun at that pace..

[Deano]

nice motor the car sits low too looks really nice :cool:

[Deano]

18 psi :cool: My kind of person :D

[Gr4H4m]

If its going injection on the K head I would look at the SC ecu as they would have the best customer support due to running and building these engines... I would use MJ if its just ignition your after

http://www.specialist-components.co.uk/cnb/shop/sconline?op=catalogue-products-null&prodCategoryID=35&title=Vehicle+Electronics

[TONYELF]

Hi M8, welcome to miniaddicts forum. Nice to see you off the E/H register.
Hope you enjoy and find it informative.
Tony

[RSP]

Very nice motor, love the wheels.