Help with Turbo selection for our minibike

[BangShiftChad]

Anyone have a clue where we could get a turbo small enough for our 200CC briggs style minibike engine? We want to do it bad!!! Help.

[VWMMP]

http://www.mjmturbos.com
http://www.mjmturbos.com/images/SMALLEST.jpg

[VWMMP]

Just a little note - From an earlier thread. The site is now getting big enough to start searching for threads. ;D
http://www.carjunkieforums.com/index.php?topic=98.0

[dieselgeek]

chad - DO IT.

Grab two throttle bodies and injectors, and a fuel pump, off a wrecked GSXR. Or possibly a polaris 4-stroke ATV.

[JeffMcKC]

ER AHH,, not that I have looked, but they have for about 75.00 or so, a brand new supercharger that looks like a mini procharger for SEADOO's and that would give you the grunt off the line a Mini Bike needs to kill someone. I also know that you can direct the air off the cooling fins into the carb and get a couple hundered RPM if you over ride the governer and get kicked out of the stock classes with it LOL

[efi-diy]

Overdrive a smog air pump... 10:1.....

Who knew that the evils of the early smog era would help us go fast now.....

[TheSilverBuick]

That'd be a very tiny smog pump pulley, or a very large crank pulley......I've wondered about that on those little go-karts at amusement parks, they never hired me so I never got to find out :'(

[etbird]

Anyone have a clue where we could get a turbo small enough for our 200CC briggs style minibike engine? We want to do it bad!!! Help.


I like the way you think!

[BangShiftChad]

I just sent an email to the turbo guys to see how much one of the little bitty ones are. I'm also going to do some research on the whole smog pump idea. I love that! I have some thoughts that might work along those lines as well. I'll keep you posted.

[Huskinhano]

Many years ago in a magazine I saw someone using a smog pump on a small Honda as a supercharger.

[ls7gto]

the turbo off my old subird dont look much bigger, and your welcome to it. Doug

[fabricatordave]

Overdrive a smog air pump... 10:1.....

Who knew that the evils of the early smog era would help us go fast now.....


the super chargers on the 1st gen coraddos( VW) looked like big smog pumps!


http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd9/fabricatordave/6c32_1_b.jpg

[JustinSuhas]

i found this very interesting. Go to the link and click on the "email that started it all". i soooo wanna do this. why did i sell my minibike?!? for fifty bucks! ohhh the tradgedy. i have since sworn off selling anything motorized with a seat for the rest of my life.
http://www.richmondlabs.com/Automotive/DCSP.html

[dieselgeek]

The Hubers use a smog pump as a vacuum pump for their little 4-bangers.

They are "OK" but I wouldn't expect one to survive as a blower for a minibike engine for very long. They're not meant for pressure, just volume, stick with the mini-turbo idea. They put little turbos on Kawasaki motorcycles for a while, you should be able to find something out there that's appropriate!

-scott

[SpeedZealot]

Smart cars have turbos, do an ebay search for smart car turbo, it will require some fabbing though, as the hot side is built into the manifold, but nothing a welder and a flange couldn't fix.

[Supergas565]

Awesome thread, interesting in hearing more....!!!!!!

Rick

[70 sx 455]

i have thought of this many times over the years and was always told it would not work,im glad im not the only one with weird ideas. i wonder how 2 would work on small 4cyl.?

[Mr.WFO]

I have an air research t04 turbo for mine. but, i'm gonna take the exhaust side off & make a centrifugal blower out of it...

[Duner]

How are you going to oil the turbo?

We put a small electric ducted fan arrangement (RC airplane stuff) on a 24 horse briggs to act as an electric supercharger (golf cart). We didn't want to mess with oil feed or return. It worked pretty well for awhile. When the ducted fan portion broke - the plastic parts went thru the engine and the melted plastic stuck the valves open. It was fun while it lasted.

When was the last time you saw a golf cart nail the throttle and carry the front wheels for 20 or 30 feet?
Damn, I think I spilled my beer on that last wheelie! LOL

[383gta]

There is a place here in town that has any size turbo you'll need. They service generators and alot of oddball stuff.
Martin Diesel Inc. (419)782-9911 Phil Schaadt (pronounced shot) is the parts guy and can help answer any questions.