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there is a company in UK selling 1UZ-FE exahust shorty manifolds for 700pounds. From the way it looks it is designed to mount the turbos foward, front and up (battery and airbox need to be removed).

MartelJF

Which solves placement and getting them spooled.

Considerations for compression, intake, and computer tuning still remain.

JBrady

Do you have a link?

Lextreme

Hey John,

Isnt that is what we talked about over the phone? Interesting stuff.

MartelJF

Great supercharger primer

I know Peter has posted a lot of great stuff related to supercharging, and to complement that, I found a pretty good foundation page with some well-done explanations of the various types of superchargers.

I hope it helps people understand the supercharger options available. For example, I was really stoked about the Whipple "screw-style" supercharger, but discovered:

"Screw type blowers are more expensive to make, so they are not very popular on street engines, but are getting more and more popular as prices are coming down. At low boost levels, 15 psi and under, it is not worth the extra expense over a roots supercharger. At high boost levels it's efficiency really begins to pay off, making it the better choice."

Actually, the Whipple is pretty reasonable; but no kit for Lexus. Most of the kits, in fact, are for engines 4.5L and up (except for a 3.0L V6 kit related to the Ford Ranger.)

Another site:

With slightly different information