supercharged 3.3?

[95ShelbyCaravan]

does anyone know if you can supercharge a 3.3L?

[tkelly27]

short answer, yes. Long answer, how good are you at fabricating brackets, making manifolds/manifold adapters, and punching holes in the hood of your car? Will the bottom end hold on? I dunno you probably know more about that than I do. If you do it, you'll likely be the first, good luck

[jre97]

It would be a major pain from making everything fit to ecu tuning, but it would be worth it. On one of the ford boards I used to frequent there was a guy who did a 3.0 ranger and a couple of guys with 3.0/3.8 tempo's and topaz's that were supercharged. All of that was custom fabrication.
http://rogueperformance.com/sc.html
After a little reading turns out someone is now making a kit but is has some fabrication tips on the site.I also believe there is a section on www.tempotopaz.com but you may have to join to view or search you know the usual board stuff. I know it's all ford stuff but alot of the general stuff can be applied to any car. I would look for an eaton m90 or something sized about the same (used on gtp's, supercoupe's, and probably some others) if you want a roots type. It may be easier to adapt a centrifugal style , it would save manifold fabrication and no holes in your hood, lining up belts and getting brackets could be fun, or you could always turbocharge it.

[roguetrip]

you should look up Shelby's old work on the 3.3, i've seen videos of his work on them in some variation of cart racing, he had the 3.3 making 250hp i believe without FI.

I've heard that the 3.3 engines don't hold up well to boost. So thats why i bring up Shelby's work.

[roguetrip]

http://dodgedynasty.50megs.com/other/shelby.html

The Shelby Can-ams, thats what i was talking about.

[91DodgeSpiritRT]

Geez...I had a fantasy Dodge Dynasty 3.3 supercharged project for a later date. They are so cheap to pick up now too. Man, I'd have called it the Dynasty KOR - "King of the Road" (no reference to Shelby's Mustang).
Oh well, the project sounds too hard now......

Mike D'Antonio

[Andre Parker]

Or maybe a 3.5 from an intrepid or 300M. Starting out with a 255hp car and adding that would be a fun project. Or make a mid engine Daytona with one and a supercharger, that may get you killed, but it would leave one hell of a smile on your face.

[jdawg]

space is extremely tight in anything with a 3.5, actually I think Jackson makes a supercharger kit for a prowler, but a 3.5 can be mad 300 hp very easily, but i think turbo would be a better option, at least with turbo you dont have to worry about belt and pulley alignment, remote mount it if you have to

[TurboMan]

APC supercharged a 3.8 in a grand caravan(1996 year of van), it was lowered too. It didnt have mouch boost from what i could find out about it, like about 8 psi max. But it did look saweet with paint, rims and being lowered.

[big_P]

this one?

[big_P]

I would sooooooo rock that. Even if it was made by APC....

[TurboMan]

Yup thats the one... I got it as my background for windoze too :P And a side note on the lowering springs. they are made by Eibach, they say they are not for a Grand, but they will work for almost any caravan. Its about the weight of the mini, but from looking into it myself it seems alot of peeps have put them on every type of caravan out there. Im still thinking of goin this way if i cant find a nice TD soon enough to play with

[Andre Parker]

That's pretty sweet looking.

[Una]

That van just needs an SRT4 drivetrain under the hood.

[big_P]

I'd LOVE to do an SRT-4 Swap into a 4th gen van. But I don't have $50,000 to spend on it