We’re presenting a somewhat condensed version of our build here in the magazine. The pictures tell the story about how we went from a supercharger on a table to a much quicker Miata. Our quest for the blower took about a month of casual junkyard and internet searches, but we finally ended up with an M45 from a Mercedes-Benz for $100. That’s a fairly docile setup in this age of huge boost and huge power, but it’s still much more potent than the roughly 100 horsepower that our stock Miata made at the wheels. Here’s where we landed: We’d use an Eaton M45 supercharger mounted on the driver’s side of the engine, aim for 6–7 psi of boost, and hope for about 140 horsepower to the wheels. But we averaged what we read, seeing enough common themes to put together a recipe for our setup. Not surprisingly, some of the information was misleading or just plain wrong. We wanted to glean as much knowledge as we could to home in on a specific plan for our project. Before we started, we spent quite a bit of time combing the internet looking at forums, build threads and commercial supercharger websites. We used a Miata for our build, but every step of our project can apply to just about any other car. We wanted to find out what’s involved, where the stumbling blocks are, and what it takes to finish and succeed. We’ve put together junkyard turbo setups before–witness our Miata endurance racer–but wanted to jump in with a DIY supercharger build of our own. But then reality kicks in, causing many of these projects to stall out and remain unfinished. A lot of people talk about installing a junkyard supercharger.
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