Supercharged 2 litre Liberty engine

[Ric]

I was assisting with the timimg up at the MG Car Club's Hillclimb at Rob Roy all weekend.
Yesterday, and open wheeler showed up powered by a 2 litre Liberty engine that had been supercharged, so I had to get a few snaps.

(They were trying to find a way to prevent the gearbox shifting into 5th gear, the guy in the sombrero was changing gears in the cabin while the others were watching the linkages to the gearbox.)

[swingn]

That thing must go like a bat out of hell!

[EJ25]

did you tell them to join the forum ric? lol

[smythie]

Looks like a lot of fun. Why were they trying to prevent it from shifting into fifth?

[Ric]

The driver obviously stuffed a gear change on his first run.
I'm guessing he got fifth while trying to shift from second to third.
You wouldn't need 5th on this track (and maybe not even 4th either), so stopping the lever from shifting right across would be a way to prevent this.

[Ric]

If you have a fast connection, you can see a video I took of him starting his second run.

Click here (25 MB)

[ultrablue]

it has a strange sound not what i expecting

[drndrn]

did u happen to find out how much power that thing is producing? I assume it'd be one of the older EJ20's right?

[jdm rsk]

hey ric..cant find the link to the video mate

[Ric]

hey ric..cant find the link to the video mate

"click here" is the link. I just tried it and it works fine.

it has a strange sound not what i expecting

Probably revving a lot faster than standard.

did u happen to find out how much power that thing is producing? I assume it'd be one of the older EJ20's right?

Sorry, I don't know. I was only speaking to the driver's son. Apparently they bought the car with that engine in it (I asked if they'd considered using a 3.0R engine... )

[FLAWLS]

I know this engine well.

EJ20 forged bottom end, SOHC heads, big cams and valves, custom manifold, 3/71 charger, twin VL fuel pumps,half inch fuel lines, twin throttle body setup, 8x 440cc injectors, MoTeC ecu, 4-2-1 exhaust.

[Jimmy S]

That is awesome!!

[suff]

that looks like a damn big charger! would love to see a dyno graph! torque curve would be insane!