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Ron Stygar Carl Buckland Dale Beuning Forums Help
From digest.v7.n1083 Fri Feb 6 05:23:21 1998 From: Jason Leung <jleung20_at_flash.net> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 00:26:33 -0600 Subject: Re: Supercharged M3 Advice Steve Grigory asks:
>I'm looking for information on supercharged '95 M3's. Specifically, I just finished
>I've heard "rumors" of people having problems with supercharged M3's but I Steve, Powerdyne makes the compressor for these kits. Early on, these kits shredded internal belts and were subject to bearing meltdown when they were beat at the track on a hot day. What this means is that if Duane had an early supercharged car, he would not be a happy camper. However, sometime during late 1996, Powerdyne addressed these problems and redesigned the internals of the supercharger. Among one of the changes was a switch from Kevlar to Fibreglass internal belts. I believe this has solved the problem. (Though if your name is Duane and you didn't hate forced induction so much, you'd probably pop for ERT's _race_only_ Vortech supercharger setup [as opposed to ERT's Powerdyne setup] .... the Vortech is completely gear driven, and incredibly loud.) A side benefit is that the new redesigned Powerdynes are also very very quiet. Almost no noise. If you are considering buying the Dinan car, may I suggest you look for:
One of the most knowledgeable people about Dinan's supercharged e36 setups (aside from Dinan themselves) is Chuck Quarton, who I believe is also VP of the GCC. (I may be wrong on this.) He was on the digest 2 years ago, but I don't know if he's still here. I do not have his email address, but maybe one of our GCC members can point him out? Other people on the digest who have or had ERT supercharged e36s are: LinganC_at_aol.com, Jeff Tarr, fstbmwm3_at_yahoo.com (Vlasis), Matt Choi, Mark Nernberg (of Pizza fame), and myself. I am positive I am leaving some people out....
Anyways, I hope this helps.
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