VF-Engineering Supercharger

[nik@VF]

VF-Engineering R8 information thread. <we have requested to become a commercial sponsor>

Our R&D department have been focussed on our R8 project for almost 1 year which includes a running RS4 that preceded our R8 installation. Currently we are in process of completing our first R8 chassis test car and production components are being operated on in our CNC production line at our facility in Southern California.

Our approach the supercharger development is quite unique when it comes to design and production style. With a higher bar set for this project, our engineers chose to use the latest supercharger from Eaton Corporation: Twin Vortices Series TVS1900. It is a 6th generation 4 lobe roots supercharger that supercedes the older 3 lobe MP90 and MP112. With the ability to rev higher and harder, the TVS1900 unit can be operated at lower speeds than the older unit and create more boost due to its displacement and higher efficiency.



To put this unit into place, VF-Engineers chose to "billet" the entire intake manifold. The supercharger is positioned ontop of the 2 piece manifold and blows into a supersize heat exchanger core and down into our venturi'd runner inlets. We do not use water or chemical injection into the engine. This direct blow down design eliminates the need for the air to travel around tight bends with "cradle style" designs.

CNC Machined inlet lower tray.


CNC Machined inlet runners.


We will slowly document more information as our marketing dept releases it and can try to answer some questions if they fall in the scope of what we have answers for. We do not have a release date to publish as all information is informal at this moment. Our first production batch is already allocated and we hope to encourage many of our clients to post on this awesome community forum.

Recent photoshoot in Irvine, CA.

[KfabR8]

Interesting! Good to see another tuner putting out products for these wonderful machines.

The obvious two questions are:
How much
1) hp gain is expected?
B) will it cost? Even a ball park figure (say +/- $5K) would be nice.

Will it include ECU upgrades/mods?
What sort of warranty/guarantee will be offered with this package?

The two teaser photos show some fairly nice machine work.

[smoothy]

I'd be interested in seeing the dyno charts once you get the unit installed. I hope the price doesn't come in too high, I realize the research costs have to be amortized over a very limited number of units sold, but some of the SC units out there are priced so high I wonder if in some cases they are being greased up simply because the car is expensive and they assume the owners won't balk at paying an inflated price for add-ons.

[Dan1]

VF-Engineering R8 information thread.

With the ability to rev higher and harder, the TVS1900 unit can be operated at lower speeds than the older unit and create more boost due to its displacement and higher efficiency.

I understand what "Rev Higher" means, I do not understand what "rev higher and harder" means.

Did you mean "rev higher and faster"?
Can you explain?

Also you point out" the unit can be operated at lower speeds" compared to the older unit, if it can be operated at lower speeds, what is the advanatage of being able to "rev Higher"?

[nik@VF]

Price is always a delicate subject, and often misunderstood. Price is usually derived from liability and ROI. Our price point is expected to be in the low 20's.

VF-Engineering has been exclusively creating FI systems since 1996 as a primary objective. Since VF relocated to Southern California from London, UK in 2000. Our engineers strive to incorporate the latest technology, materials and processes available to create the most advanced aftermarket products.

Additional features of the system are a high capacity cooling system. With the use of a GT3 Porsche front center radiator we reduce the potential to limit cooling of existing radiators and use OEM parts for applications they were designed. A high flow bosch water pump to circulate the charge cooling system water is key to the heat transfer process (that is removing heat from the air induction charge). With all our charge cooling systems for example in our Porsche 997S supercharger, we create large custom plastic molded multiple gallon water tank. The ratio of the sizes of the heat exchangers to water capacity and pump flow rate is an underlying factor that our engineers are too aware of when it comes to keeping the induction charge cooled in arduous conditions.

I will answer questions gradually, time permitting.

[Mpalso456]

I am very interested in the product. I have been looking into the PES supercharger and also a Twin Turbo from Hennessey and underground racing.

Do you have any cars right now to share additional pictures? Costs? Dyno?

Thanks

[nik@VF]

I do not understand what "rev higher and harder" means. Did you mean "rev higher and faster"?

That was the colloquialism the System Designer at Magnusson (Eatons largest dealer) used to express "you can abuse the TVS units".

We have yet to dyno our development car but have it setup for 6psi. Assuming like for like, most kit developers will see approx the same hp gain per psi.

With data from engineering sources at the engine manufacturer, we have already set our limits to hp, tq and boost. With the use of the TVS1900 unit, we are expecting to achieve the most efficient ratio of hp/psi for the R8 supercharger market. Once our results are published our R&D dept will be able to discuss this further but we have already travelled down this road in several other supercharger markets.

[OEMplus.com]

Looking forward to next month Nik!

[Mpalso456]

I would certainly love to talk more about this. PM if you have more details that we can talk about...

[Hubert@VF]