Hi Guys,

I'm starting a project on my 2000 X reg 1.8 HGT Acarth where I am installing a Rotrex Supercharger.

I have been told by the people in Italy, that I need to give them the ECU Serial number to see if they can remap it for me, Can anyone tell me where I would find this?

Also, as the blower is belt driven it works off the aircon pulleys, I also need to determine what Diameter the pulley as this will tell me if I can install a Stage2 system or only a Stage1 system, apparently if its 136mm then I can only install a Stage2......does anyone here know what an 2000 1.8 GHT Abarth X reg has?

Anyhelp please....thanks Mooks

The first thing I need to determine

The ecu's on the back of the inlet manifold, sticker on it is the numbers you need.

Hows this job going mate ie supercharger? What are the cost figures so far..

onionbaji said:

Hows this job going mate ie supercharger? What are the cost figures so far..

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The research has gone very good, The ECU is one that can be re maped (as only some on these MK2 can with the Hitachi ECU's) so I'm happy with that.

My Aircon pulley is 136mm in diameter so that means only a stage 2 for me, so charger will be set for that and bigger injectors.

Price wise it will cost 4500 Euro (approx £3000) plus aprox £500 to fit

At the moment the company in italy is closed for holidays and are due back 27th August, I think I can do the price alot cheaper as can source the charger, intercooler and piping, BOV in UK, I will prob just buy the mounting bracket for the charger and have ECU, Airflow meter and throtlebody done with the company in Italy. Palimary costs on charger are £1300 (incl vat) but I'm sure I can knock them down with a little pressure.

So thats about as far as I have gone. Till they are back from Holiday.

Mooks

Cool, sounds good mate, i have a HGT Y Reg and i would like to do similar work, looking at cams at the moment so keep updating!!

onionbaji said:

Cool, sounds good mate, i have a HGT Y Reg and i would like to do similar work, looking at cams at the moment so keep updating!!

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The company I am dealing with have spent thousand and thousands of pounds researching into this, for reliability they recomend not to do anything at all the the internals of the engine, leave it completly standard, something to do with the remp also as it put at complete max, other than the charger (as you are not required to do any internal work like you would with a turbo unit) they say a complete sports exhuast (extractors and freeflow) is the only mod that you can do, this will produce 200BHP (stage1 brings 175bhp, stage2 brings 185bhp both with standard engine and exhuast) not bad for a small car. So if your concidering a charger, think into it alot, if you going to do internals, you will most likely have to install an aftermarket ecu and have that mapped, not a cheap way as I think the Hitachi ecu does more that the engine management, I think it does the whole car.....so the replacement would need to piggyback or replace the whole thing, then you need to find someone that car map it.

here are the charges that I have come across that are good for a standard engine;

Rotrex
Eaton m45 (taken from a new mini), alot cheaper but then you need to find somewhere to mount it!

if you going to do the internals, then maybe you could do a tubro conversion here is a company that do one which is very good apparently but cost 5000 Euros (big dosh) + plus cost on engine mods and labour! -here are some pics of the conversion, fits in nice I think.






www.vgsmotorsport.de if you want further info.

Mooks