Supercharged e36 m44b19

[davehaynes1]

Hi guys.
So i have a nice tidy 318is. Really don't want to go down the route of m50/m52 swap, and have been toying with the idea of supercharging it.
Im alll the way over in New Zealand and sourcing parts is near impossible. I can get my hands on toyota superchargers... sc12s & sc14s relatively easily but the normal eaton chargers off the minis are not even worth thinking about.
Im aware of a company that makes or at least used to make s/c kits for the m44 which included a custom intake manifold but again cant get those here.
I dont really want to be spending hundreds and hundreds getting an intake manifold fabricated so was wondering if there was anyway to utilise the original intake?
The Toyota sc12 & sc14 have a circular outlet as they run a stock I/C, so my initial idea was just to run a pipe from this outlet to the throttle body. But after researching i have read the tb should be before the s/c. (I am familiar with turbo but not s/c)
Just wondering if anyone else has am ideas of a way i could connect the s/c outlet to the intake manifold with the tb removed and placed before the s/c?
Thanks in advance

[abradic]

Why not go the S50b32 route? Being in NZ I have to imagine that's an engine you're able to source for about the same cost as going the SC route. The S50b32 will give you more power than a SC on the M44 (or even going turbo for that matter unless you unload unreal money into it), a better sound, revs freely, and room for more power down the road. 321 hp out of the S50b32, or struggling to get to 200 hp with a SC...I'd go for the S50b32