Eaton M90 for maxima
 

i was researching the eaton m90 supercharger for my maxima, and it's a universal supercharger recommended for any vehicle 3.0L-5.0L i think, but every car i've seen it on was american cars:confused: ??? GTP, Bonneville, Aurora??? any body ever heard of one of these on any Import? :confused:

Try out that search function bro, it was done years ago by Craig Mack. There's been lots of discussion about his and other potential setups.

???... anyways here's the official site
http://www.capa.com.au/eaton_m90data.htm

http://www.capa.com.au/pics/eaton_m90.gif

your the man dude

I toss this idea back and forth myself sometimes. Craig Mack only ever took 4 really bad pictures and doesn't remember a whole lot about it (I've talked to him recently) so there isn't much to learn/know about his setup. Of anyone, I probably know the most about it, though.

gee thanks ima probebly have this in in the next 2 weeks

How do you figure? It's not as simple as you think. I don't understand how you can jump into this knowing nothing about it and expect it to go off without a hitch.

Yeah just looking at that shot above.. screw that IMO.

There actually aren't that many parts to it, it just requires a good bit of custom-made parts.

damn that really sucks about craig macks car. Id be choked if that happened to me. Sounds like a crazy setup, id be interested to try it, but as it stands now schooling is consuming all my time.

Oh it was, total torque beast. Too bad he never really got to have fun with it...

yeah that would suck sooo bad. So much time and money invested into it, and maybe enjoyed it properly running for 1-2 day tops? Its a shame to be honest with you. Especially considering he was the pioneer of this setup.

Am I missing a piece of this story, what happened to that guys car ?

got hit almost head on by an accord at about 40MPH, like the day he got the car back running 100%. I belive he owns a cobra now, or atleast he did back in the day.

Holy hell, that REALLY blows..

So its almost like this set-up:
http://www.rippmods.com/documents/wr...azzio/pic4.jpg

This one looks like it would look nicer though.
I had repo'd an Eclipse with this type of supercharger and it looked like it would work on our car, but you would need to remove and fabricate a new mounting plate so it would fit on the VQ.

:newbie::rotz:

No. Thats a cintrifical type style blower. The blower these guys are talking about are Roots type. Roots builds boost alot quicker then the cintrifical type...Cintrifical type blowers build boost as rpms build.

-matt

oh... no wonder the Eclipse seemed pretty slow on take off (it was automatic)How would the Eclipse set-up differ from your set-up matty, other than mounting? I really dont know much about superchargers and turbos, so sorry... I guess you can call me a :newbie: at this :hide:

Damn....id kill for a well priced method of FI....but this doesnt sound like it meets the first criteria (price)


Looks funny too

rippmods sc is badass. been to the guys shop and hes awesome.

It does if you have hookups and common sense :naughty:

The unit itself is $3000.

I tend to lack both:tard:

lol have this in within 2 weeks. pardon me while I hold my breath.

An M90 is $3000? Where are you shopping? You can buy used ones for like $200.

werd junk yard FTMFW

This setup is riddled with problems.

Charge pipe problem, Maf placement problems, Charge effieciancy problems in regards to the MAF seeing air, BOV valve problems. ALOT of unknowns

-matt

i dont have to worry about putting it in, money does anything, im not doing it, i dont care how hard it is

I wish I could say the same. Rich *** :chairshot :wftlol: :thread:

lol im nowhere close to rich, but i'll spend my last dime on my maxima without a dought, i dont even second guess myself, i get and work for what i want... save your money??? spend it all on your car???...???... spend it on the car, lol

he has a lightning now:wall:

Yea well driveability problems will bug the cra* outa you, when you cant even drive your car back to whoever installed it, a half-a-dozen times. It will get to you regardless of how much money you have

-matt

All of Craig's drivability issues were fixed before the car was totalled. He just never bothered to say much about it, and only had the car running properly maybe a couple hours tops before it was totalled. That's the irony of the situation.

His problems were quite easily fixed, and were really pretty much dumb oversights on his (or his mechanic's) part. He had the throttlebody and MAF in the "stock" location, that was his main problem. Look at, say, a Grand Prix GTP (or most any other factory-equipped M90 car); they have their MAF and throttlebody attached BEFORE the blower. That way you're not blowing the charged air right into the MAF, and you don't need a BOV at all, either. Theoretically you could have the throttlebody in the stock location with a BOV as long as the BOV was recirculated (to before the MAF). As far as charge pipe problems, Matty, I'm not really sure what you're referring to.

The factory M60 on my tow truck - on the VG33... The Frontier and Xterra had this option for a couple of years.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f2...3/DSCN0645.jpg

The TB and MAF are ahead of the blower. Wish someone could adapt some of this to a VQ... :bustrun:

Anyone know how the LIM compares between the two engine series?

Not similar whatsoever ;)

Yeah, that's what I thought.... All those factory blower parts, too. Ah, well.

here for the OP who didnt search.

http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=253992
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=261230
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=262781