blown XJ

[southernrebel20]

A friend of mine was cleaning out his shop and gave me an eaton M90 blower. Has anyone seen a blown XJ? Couldn't find any threads on it, I know it's difficult and will require much fabrication and I will have to mess with the computer crap but it would be an awesome project, and feedback on this??

 

[89xj]

A friend of mine was cleaning out his shop and gave me an eaton M90 blower. Has anyone seen a blown XJ? Couldn't find any threads on it, I know it's difficult and will require much fabrication and I will have to mess with the computer crap but it would be an awesome project, and feedback on this??

there is an xj with a supercharger for sale about a mile from my house. i dont have the specs but ive seen it around for awhile.

didnt get a phone number, but its parked on a front lawn on:

Knowlton road, aston pa, 19014

 

[Markos]

A friend of mine was cleaning out his shop and gave me an eaton M90 blower. Has anyone seen a blown XJ? Couldn't find any threads on it, I know it's difficult and will require much fabrication and I will have to mess with the computer crap but it would be an awesome project, and feedback on this??

There seem to be a number of people with M-90's sitting in there garage, but nobody ever installs them. There are a few threads if you search. Start with google. One was on pirate, one was on JU.

 

[veedubshafer]

Heh, well, it would be supercharged not blown. A blower is mounted directly to the intake manifold like a pro mod drag car. A supercharger is mounted like an alternator and has plumbing going to the intake. Just so you don't get laughed at by anyone. But anyway, it would be pretty cool for sure...that sort of goes without saying though I guess.

 

[wolfpackjeeper]

just so YOU don't get laughed at, I have always heard any car with a supercharger called blown. "Oh, you have FI? Turboed or Blown?" This includes several mustangs, a camaro or two, 2 Goats, and my old bosses Chevy truck. They were a Mix of serp mounted and intake mounted.

I want one, and I had been looking for an M90 for a while,just no luck with the price.

 

[veedubshafer]

just so YOU don't get laughed at, I have always heard any car with a supercharger called blown. "Oh, you have FI? Turboed or Blown?" This includes several mustangs, a camaro or two, 2 Goats, and my old bosses Chevy truck. They were a Mix of serp mounted and intake mounted.

I want one, and I had been looking for an M90 for a while,just no luck with the price.

whatever man, I have enough experience with this that I dont need to argue....here is stepdads BLOWN camaro

 

[cal]

whatever man, I have enough experience with this that I dont need to argue....here is stepdads BLOWN camaro

But yet, as usual, you are arguing.

 

[5-90]

That's the way I've always heard it - if it's a belt-driven supercharger, it's "blown." If it's using a centrifugal, it's got a "leaf blower."

A turbo is always a turbo.

"Overblown" refers to staged supercharging - a turbocharger blowing into a supercharger for truly massive boost (sometimes in excess of four atmospheres. Of boost. Above and beyond the one atmosphere that is always available...)

As I recall, the Eaton M90 is about the right size for 1/2-2/3 atmosphere of boost into the 242ci. I've wanted to do something similar, but I want to use a Whipple/Lysholm (greater adibiatic efficiency,) and fab up an intake so I can lay the thing on its side and keep it all under the hoodline.

 

[JJacobs]

Technically that may be right. Around here anyway, the terms are used interchangeably.. "what kind of supercharger, roots or centrifugal?"

 

[urban yan]

...all this supercharger talk, and I promised to keep my trap shut

 

[JJacobs]

Nice Camaro anyway- well it looks like a Camaro.

 

[veedubshafer]

Nice Camaro anyway- well it looks like a Camaro.

Thanks, it's a brand new Tim McAmis chassis. Thats the first run on it in the pic. About 30 feet down the Lenco locked up and put er in the wall. Its an Alan Johnson Olds 526 with a PSI screwcharger ... yes a screw blower that is normally used on drag boats haha. It will go in the high 5's this year i'm sure.

 

[Talyn]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/JEEP-WRANGLER-CHEROKEE-SUPERCHARGER-KIT_W0QQitemZ290313971928QQcmdZ

Interesting kit on ebay. I doubt you would be able to fit it without hood mods though.

 

[seanyb505]

Very interesting link on ebay. Wish I had seen that a while ago when I had an m90 sitting around. OP, buy the kit, throw it on.

 

[urban yan]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/JEEP-WRANGLER-CHEROKEE-SUPERCHARGER-KIT_W0QQitemZ290313971928QQcmdZ

Interesting kit on ebay. I doubt you would be able to fit it without hood mods though.

haha that kit would make an avenger set-up look like a mere speed bump on our hoods.

 

[Starboard M]

haha that kit would make an avenger set-up look like a mere speed bump on our hoods.

Ad says a 1'' body lift is needed for the Wranglers. How much body lift would an XJ need to get everything to clear?

 

[JJacobs]

Probably the 3" body lift. I forget who makes that one.

 

[Kittrell]

Acme Suspensions, its from their Unobtanium line.

 

[alex22]

Probably the 3" body lift. I forget who makes that one.

Modified engine mounts to drop the engine 1 inch would have the same end result, and since xj's have a unibody the body lift is a no go.

 

[Talyn]

I think the XJ would need more than a 1" engine drop mount. I think the TJs have a bit of more clearance under the hood as it is.