richard check you socal.rr email please:)

WOW.. I was reading from the beginning of the thread, got 20 pages in and took a look at the little counter that said "out of 244!!" Okay, I'm guessing some progress has been made since 2004 on this supercharger, and I'm sure there's SOME way to search this, but I'm just going to ask:

1. How are we doing in the gains dept?
2. When is the estimated release date?
3. Still in that 3000 to 3500 price range?

Thanks to anyone who can answer these and not flame me 400 times ;-)

not any answers to your ?s yet.... but progress is being made....

the best bet is to read the last 10 pages...

beers :beer:

one flame for each of the posts you didn't read :D

Well I guess that at least gives me some more time to save up eh? Thanks swoope!

*chars to a small crispy mass*

i read the whole thing one night about a year ago... it was about 150 pages then... did not relize how long it was till it was to late.... i finished about noon the next day...

i do understand..

beers :beer:

1) still untested officially, it has been driven on the prototype to 5 PSI with no fuel management on pump 110 octane.. no numbers.

2) estimated release was sometime this fall or later, depends on a working engine/fuel managment.

3) price is who knows. It depends on the final costs and what fuel managment end s up being. rp has been at it for better than 2 years now, so there's obviosly some decent RD money he needs to recoup there. I'd bet on the higher side. There may be an inital volume discount/group buy on the first few units for the dedicated people who have been around the whole time, but that's up to RP to decide.

I hope mazda doesn't come out with a turboed rx-8 right as he is ready to release his product. That would seriously suck for him.

i would much rather go with the reliability and off the line torque or a supercharger over a turbo any day

no it wouldn't everyone who is in the market for one already has a NA rx8. it might even drive business for people to "keep up". most of the people buying rx8's now know what they are getting into. by the time the factory turbo's come of age there will be a path for them too.

anyways the axialflow SC is the stuff of legend. Lathams are the real deal unicorn of the FI world.

yea, I suppose you are right. I'm just losing hope because this has been such a slow process.

i would rather wait for a quality product then get something right this second that works like crap

amen to that

You've gotta have 4000 posts or more to get a free supercharger from the first batch.

Start postwhoring, girls....... :)

Any time line or progress report?

Hey RP Just checking in.. keep up the good work....

Its been a while since we have seen a update from RP……

.he must be working hard :jerkit: :lach:

I haven't been working much in the last two weeks as I've been involved in a legal matter that I'm bringing against some people. I have a few day break right now.

We are still looking at different ECU possabilitys. I will not say which ones we are testing so as to save all the nonsense that went on before. There is a new compressor design that will be ready in about 10 days. This is not a complete design change just some improvments that we came up with. Little things mean alot when you're working with intake air.

We don't like to give dates for sale of something as complex as this but we want to be to market in OCT. I didn't say we'd make it but that is our latest target. The things besides the ECU that are holding us up are the manufacture of the intake manifold and long lead time for the custom ball bearings and seals.

GL with that legal thing RP.

Can't wait to see this thing for sale in time for SS9!

perhaps this was brought up before, but richard why are you making a new intake manifold?

i've talked with some MSP people doing this because they are hesitant to use plastic with high boost pressures, but they were all talking above 10psi. Have you measured the amount of contraction and expansion under levels of boost, was it that significant with the low psi your running?

Or is this for another reason?

I'm not worried about it handling the pressure, it's just in the way of where the SC goes. In fact if I could find a way to cut the thing off and "weld" a 3" nipple on it I'd use it.

http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=34276

theres a start :) you should talk with guitarjunkie :uhh: i think i remember him talking about using some sort of expoy inside the engine becuase someone had gone to deep with while porting the exhuast and bored right into the coolent jacket.

yea, the "epoxy" was a certified welder ;) i do exhaust and intercooler pipes with my lincoln 110, but that's as deep as i get into it.

i was worried about that one for a while, but that engine has a year and a half on it and it's still running, so we're all good.

you are in deep shit now....