VF-Engineering
11-29-2007, 11:09 PM
Hey guys,
This is our first visit to the 6series forum. Some may be aware that we were working on a 645 (N62) supercharger kit using a centrifugal supercharger and charge cooler manifold to fit all 5/6/7 45/50s. After spending close to $100K in R&D for this project we put the R&D on hold for a year but after re-evaluation decided to revive our plans for forced induction on the N62 V8.
Instead we have finalized plans with an OEM vendor to co-create an Eaton roots supercharger system design with integrated air/water cooling. As with all our kits, flash programmable software is being created by GIAC USA. More details will be announced in due course. Currently our schedule indicates a running production kit on our demo cars by Apr 08 and production release soon after. We are currently completing the CARB application for our existing forced induciton kits and expect this new V8 kit will also be approved.
We are interested to learn what the demand and interest would be in this forum and invite enthusiasts to contact us via email on nik@vf-engineering.com and post questions here. Please note, this kit will not fit the M62 on the E38/39 540/740.
http://vf-engineering.com/images/kit/bmw/e60_545/top/3.jpg
http://vf-engineering.com/images/kit/bmw/e64_645/top/2.jpg
Eaton roots supercharger design created by our co-development partner for their client, an OEM automaker. The same proect is being extrapolated for the new VF N62 supercharger.
http://www.vf-engineering.com/unsecured/roots/v8-eaton.JPG
logo obscured for trademark reasons.
This is our first visit to the 6series forum. Some may be aware that we were working on a 645 (N62) supercharger kit using a centrifugal supercharger and charge cooler manifold to fit all 5/6/7 45/50s. After spending close to $100K in R&D for this project we put the R&D on hold for a year but after re-evaluation decided to revive our plans for forced induction on the N62 V8.
Instead we have finalized plans with an OEM vendor to co-create an Eaton roots supercharger system design with integrated air/water cooling. As with all our kits, flash programmable software is being created by GIAC USA. More details will be announced in due course. Currently our schedule indicates a running production kit on our demo cars by Apr 08 and production release soon after. We are currently completing the CARB application for our existing forced induciton kits and expect this new V8 kit will also be approved.
We are interested to learn what the demand and interest would be in this forum and invite enthusiasts to contact us via email on nik@vf-engineering.com and post questions here. Please note, this kit will not fit the M62 on the E38/39 540/740.
http://vf-engineering.com/images/kit/bmw/e60_545/top/3.jpg
http://vf-engineering.com/images/kit/bmw/e64_645/top/2.jpg
Eaton roots supercharger design created by our co-development partner for their client, an OEM automaker. The same proect is being extrapolated for the new VF N62 supercharger.
http://www.vf-engineering.com/unsecured/roots/v8-eaton.JPG
logo obscured for trademark reasons.