Too bad you’re married, imagine all the women you can meet with such a fine vehicle

C'mon baby! Let's make 80-100 to the wheels!

The metro content is some of the best stuff Richard has made 😆 I love this

You should send the bad AMR500 to get a quality overhaul for a blower shop improve bearings and oiling and seals maybe new rotors. Then test both a stock cheapo with an optimized rebuild. Idk 🤷🏻‍♂️ I’d find that really entertaining for comparison.

Seen alot of vids where the amr is super loud, but robot cantina has one that is quiet and makes decent boost on a tiny diesel

I've been looking forward to this video!!

I was gonna say, the blower sounds unhappy. Looking forward to more Metro stuff. Also... CHILLY BOMB! YAY! 😎

Richard I love this kinda stuff, ya know, just as low-buck as it can possibly get. Because ya know that's like the only way I would ever have a chance of making something like this happen. Lol

Dang that exhaust note took me back to high school for a moment

I cant wait for a healthy AMR 500 paired with that Holley Throttle Body! I love these super fun builds like this, you never know what is gonna happen next

My 2c, You dont need a bypass valve. You need to wire the throttle body on the engine wide open, (or better yet remove the throttle plate to remove a restriction) then fit a throttle body (with TPS) to the inlet of the supercharger. When the blower spins, it pumps air. UNLESS you throttle the intake. All the blown V8s, (6/71-14/71 etc) run either a carb(s) or mechanical fuel injection with throttle omates to control air on the intake of the supercharger. I put an sc14 (1.4ltres of air per revolution) on a datsun A15. (Drawthrough carb) the further i opened the throttle, the higher the boost went. I could hit wot off idle, and it remained at peak boost right through till valvebounce. Its a bit more faffing about to do this to your set up BUT you will get linea torque production. And stable consistant boost figures. The other thing i would do is, given how high the milage is on this wreck, id have the injector (i presume it just run one big one?) Cleaned and flowed. If the spray pattern is all over the show, youll have a harder time getting good fuel distribution. And therefore get less peak horsepower. Love your work btw

Me being a Suzuki guy I'm loving this project 👍

This is the OTHER GUY I have been waiting for for!!!! So killer

Hey Richard, love the channel. Love what you're doing on there. Really cool to see you working on these unusual projects like this with the Metro. I mean it's cool to see you know any of the V8 engines that you work on and see you getting more and more power out of them. But to see these kind of oddball projects like this is really cool and just really enjoy the channel and always like watching your channel because I know I'm going to learn something valuable and then you make it where it's more understandable and easier to understand for the regular folk which I really appreciate. So keep up the great work. Look forward to your future videos

Oh man if the single barrel Sniper EFI works well with boost it opens a world of possibilities for lil smaller-than-cars vehicles

Put a 100k ohme resistor in place of the air intake sensor location. It will richen it up quite a bit. Should be enough fuel for 5psi or more

kinda sounds like a table saw w the blower lmao. is 40 hp the lowest your dyno has ever seen Rich lol. this was pretty damn cool thanks for the upload.

YES!!!! This is what we've needed!

Been waiting for this

Okay, I'm just going on record here for comparison: The American Chevette engines (1.6L gas and 1.8L diesel--both N/A) put out better numbers than that. (70-hp and 55-hp, respectively) As for the European models: They had option for a 150-hp DOHC Lotus 2.3L I-4 w/ dual side-draft Webers.

This content is awesome. Thank you.

With the stock efi the most common way to do this is to use a non 1:1 fmu. Like the old supercharger setups on oxbodies and such. 5psi is about a third more air volume and the flow thru an orifice equation has a square in it. 45 psi stock and we need 33% more fuel so 1.33x1.33 = 1.77 times 45 = about 80psi will be the target extra 35 psi means you need a 7 to 1 fmu. might need a voltage clamp on the stock map sensor so it doesnt think its shorted.

Love the total loss water/air Intercooler water circuit.

*slaps table* FINALLY!!! On to some GOOD STUFF!

Proper tuning solution, with proper injectors, and a healthy SC, I predict 130hp

I’m kinda impressed with how much power that old engine put out stock.

That’s a genius bracket my brother man❤

we had a suzuki swift with a 4 cylinder, that thing was actually pretty fun. it would torque steer on the 1 - 2 shift. roll up windows, no a/c, no power anything. nothing to break

Best dyno pull ever

Would a vortech Rising Rate Fuel Pressure Regulator (RRFPR) help control the AFR under boost here? 🤔 Awesome testing

Love this I bought an xfi long ago. I went looking for a turbo Sprint. But they discontinued it. Wish I still had it got 55 mpg after mods. 13" tires, advanced cam timing and shaved the head .030 to get that dismally low compression up. The xfi has taller gearing. If you wanted to hot rod one I'd go for the standard Metro for the gearing. Totally interested in this with the new parts your getting.

I want to try one of these on my beater kia spectra (2.0 tiburon engine with a speeduino) Have you seen the Robot Cantina yt? He has one of these blowers on a 3 cylinder Kubota diesel...mated to a saturn 5spd...mounted in a honda element. Pretty fun stuff.

That noise...is a sign of a right fine auto mobeel there, Rich. All you need is some armor all youre ready to cruise for babes!

Pretty cool haven't seen any video with that much luck with one of those used so far!!!!!!

Chilly Bomb needs an Igloo mod with a submersible pump for on board intercooling. The extra weight might kill your gains though. Maybe take the seats out, passengers can sit on the cooler.

Ypu should have dynoed ot with your new blower hat when it was NA. LOL @ Boostedboiz shout out Super Richie PWM hahaha

Awesome stuff, can’t wait for the next video on this. Btw have you thought about doing a ford 300 boosted blow up like you’ve done on the sbf and sbc? That boosted video from power nation I think did well, but I know you would keep adding more boost. Just a thought.

You could always do the old Gus Mahon trick and use VW or SAAB cold start injectors on a boost referenced switch. You should only need one of the VW ones as they're good for about 15-20hp worth of fuel.

Having three Geo Metros myself, this is exactly what I want to see! Ive been interested in trying an amr500 supercharger on one of them to see what it would do. I have a 1991 Geo Metro XFi, as well as two Geo Metro base models with the 55 hp engine, which i think would be better candidates for the supercharger upgrade since they have a more aggressive cam and probably different fuel maps.

Hell yea Richard love this, I didn't expect this style tuning! Did you say another supercharger as in Twin AMR 500s?

That is awesome

These little engines impress the hell outta me! They're making 1hp per cubic inch, running at 4,500 rpm on the interstate, and still lasting 300,000 miles! You can't talk real numbers with these engines because the numbers are too low, gaining 10hp isn't a big deal, gaining 20% more power rings home better.

I’m running one of those chilly bombs on my turbo k24 , it can’t keep up on constant pulls , but kinda works ok for the money

DAMN i was gonna mention the OG boostedboiz geo, crazy how long ago that was

Id like to see that AMR on a Predator V-twin

use a 10-turn potentiometer of the right resistance range to replace the coolant temp sensor and you can adjust the extra fuel through the injector that way.

I wish you had detailed the drive ratio of the supercharger and your target boost. 20% more power on 5 psi is quite nice

Hmmm I may have to try this with a clamped map sensor on my 1.3 swift now lol

*FIFTY FIVE FOOT POUNDS BOYS* !!! Cool vid, Richard.

I had the chevy sprint version, suzuki swift in japan, and it was fantastic. Wish I still had it. When they were first imporyed you would find them in scrap yards brand new with the sticker on the window, and plastic on the seats but the engines were always gone. Ultralight aircraft guys were buying them because the engines were better and much cheaper than lycoming or other traditionally used engines. There was also a turbo model available.

This is great!!! More of these - “put a blower on whatever 🙂”

I had owned supercharged Jag, its noize is familiar to me😊

When I first saw the video I was wondering how you were going to tune it. Fifth injector controller?

Long live the Pontiac Turbo Firefly! I have a fever, and the only prescription is more Metro! You guys should find a turbo Sprint or a turbo Firefly from Canada - a ton of fun right out of the box. Stand alone ecm and fuel system will be needed to overcome the fueling issues. Stock ecm can't read boost. Thanks for featuring the best little cars ever made... in Canada. Pontiac: We Build Excitement!

I've seen a few things, but this is the first time I have seen someone try to PWM an injector by hand! Basically most fires were rich or lean, very rarely would you have lucked out and seen the average appear to be correct! Next time get an electronic guy to rig you up a little PWM controller running at an appropriate frequency (easy to figure from the injector specs.)

New to this stuff. Was wondering what would happen if you put a blower on a stock 427 Chevy tall deck out of a grain truck. Would the extra ring on the piston do anything for it? Some chats say those pistons are to heavy. Idk just wondering

Here on You Tube there is a channel called Robot Cantina. Over there they are using a supercharged 3-cylinder Kabota diesel to power a small Honda car. He is now working on sensors and variable rack position in the injection pump as well as regulating boost to stop black smoke on take off. Great stuff. This reminds me of his project.

Any chance you could put the amr before the throttle body and send the fuel through the blower?

Pretty sure a roots blower likes to have some fuel pulled through it. that thing sounded real bad... this might be the only time I thought, maybe running the PCV oily air into the intake , after the air cleaner , would be a good idea.

Cant wait to see that thing lay patch

Im questioning. If you would attempt this on a 2.2? 5sfe?

I have a smaller pulley for an AMR 500 that I made when I supercharged my samurai years ago. I can send it to you if you want a party pulley.

It'd be nice to see you and Jimbo from Robot Cantina do a joint project

I've seen other videos of these where the plastic is coming off the rotor material. One it was brand new doing it. These things probably just have a high rate of manufacturing defects.

People always accuse me of improper installation because of how loud my AMR500 setup was... They just THAT loud, tell um Richard 🤣

That would be nice if they did make a Turbo Diesal Swap for the Metro I would buy one.

Who's metro ? That thing is sweet ! I love projects like that. During your testing it looks like you may have been losing boost right around the bonnet. Watch the video and it looks like it's spraying away from where the tube enters the bonnet and blowing towards the right. May have been an illusion, but I'd look for a leak. maybe the wing nut wasn't holding it down hard enough. Also I'd put some Slick50 into that blower lol.

Made the same hat for my slant 6 turbo

On vintage beetle 1600 they deliver good power but it wasn't spun beyond specifications

Nice richard.After solve all problem can you test pandas time in 1/4 ?

That's about right my metro with a ko3 turbo made 55whp and 100 ft lbs on psi

You might think about trying a rising rate fuel pressure regulator .

Hello,what do you think about this water to air intercooler ? quality and coolig efficent ? im loking fore replacement fore my crv 2.2icdti.

XFI with it's single gap less piston ring may not be up to snuff for boosting??? I got 280,000 miles out of mine before the lower control arm mounting rusted and it was going to fail on the highway and turn hard into the next oncoming 18 wheeler. Just not the battle I want to be in. Besides they had brand new metros at the Chevy dealer(2020) There called Chevy Spark now. Not a bad car and it still comes with the coast pedal next to brake pedal.

Im on pins and needles with anticipation. Got 3 metros and wanna try this out.

Kind of a common problem with those blower, it's a bit of a russian roulette with their reliability, some survive, some dies fast... And yeah, replace those flanges, they are freaking crap! As i said before, with a good setup, and a good amr you can make 140 crankhp, maybe not on that engine though, our base engine was making around 90hp

and I thought Lysholm blowers were noisy AF...😂... once you get this thing dialed...you won't be able to keep tires on it...the next weak link is probly the clutch and cv axles... looking forward to how this project develops...

Now you have me wondering what that would do for a 4 cylinder gasoline tractor that NA makes about 47 hp, and is fairly low compression with up draft carburetor on it. Yes I understand that the fuel has to be increased, and is easily enough done by installing a piece of pipe in a J configuration with the proper flanges welded on to each end to allow for a 2 barrel carb to be used on top of the pipe down to the factory manifold, are even a new manifold to work with a 2 barrel carb or whatever you want. By doing this this would allow for a custom header to be built as well giving several power adders at the same time. First thing is you eliminated the heat soaked intake that's built into the exhaust manifold too, bith of cast iorn and seriously one casting. Then you have cooler intake air with more flow capacity and same with exhaust. Eaay enough to put intercooler in front of radiator, and the fan blades move more than enough airflow to do both jobs equally as well. And what's a couple extra tubes running around on the engine and cooling system on a old tractor. There use to be a guy that was in Europe thar had installed an audi turbo on a 4 cylinder tractor that was wicked, but way too much power for it to be useful except as a toy because if you put a load behind it, all it was going to do is dig itself into China because of wheel spin .

Might be wicked cool to take the junk AMR500 and 3D print new rotors for it, only convert it into a Lysholm/twin-screw supercharger - I bet that little engine would *love* the higher efficiency

Garage 54 - You might make more power if you cut all the counterweights off the crankshaft. Let's try it and see.

Do you think the afr problem is from bypassing the OEM narrow band O2?

Yay a metro!

kinda ironic that i checked up on superchargers on amazon a day or two ago, and seeing what was available made me wary

Hahahah. These are always the funniest projects when there’s nothing to lose and everything to gain. I miss doing pointless stuff like this. It gets nerve racking when there’s a 30k$ engine on the dyno. This is more just for fun.

Now do the cheapest small turbo

How about this on a 1.6 versa ...... asking for a friend

Do this test on a Suzuki Sidekick.

Wonder if you could increase the boost by packing grease in between the rotors

how did you even find that??

Couldn't you have put a smaller jet in the nozzle? Option 2 run a pressure referenced hose into a sealed container with fuel and a second hose from the fuel to the nozzle. It will raise and lower the fuel with pressure. This was from an old book how to turbocharge anything way before efi and even blow through carbs were common

Custom cab hat! Blower is louder than the exhaust!

What's that thing got? Square gears? Also fuel pressure is really low in those so your gonna be lean.

Couldve done a video on that gm quad 4 from the junk yard but no Lets nitros and turbo a geo metro

Next week Richard is gonna swap out to a Toro lawn mower engine!

Best name Ever 😆

I once had a Merc that leaked fluid from the steering rack that sounded like that😅😅😅

what is the chilly bomb made from? or what was its intended purpose

Ironically, I wanna see this thing successfully boosting that lil geo ...20 Yeats back , some friends and I got ahold a old metro hatch 5 speed and man did we have fun with that stupid lil car 😅... I can only imagine how it would actually be with say dbl or even triple the stock hp ... sketchy af , and I love it 😅... peace and love all, keep it radical, stay safe, and build on.. l8z famz and keep having fun pplz.. correction I think it was a geo storm hatch .. looked like a flying saucer lmfao

Is this essentially the same or a similar blower to the ones that VW bug owners throw onto their air cooled classics ?

awsome . Too cheap= less cheap?