Although many hours were spent during the design of our FTO Supercharger kits using traditional hands on methods we also used 3D scanning and modelling tools to aid the design and planning process. Here is an FTO Mivec engine before the fitment of a Supercharger, you can clearly see the size of the intake plenum going from the middle of the V and right over the rear bank where we want to mount the supercharger.

The solution - make a shorter plenum.  While this has done before it has always felt like a comprimise to allow the supercharger a place to sit so we decided to turn this situation around and add benefit by creating an integrated charge-cooler plenum.

Benefits:

• No lag - as there are no long pipe runs like in a FMIC setup (which could also be soaking up heat on the way back to a traditional plenum).

• Low boost drop - air/liquid cores typically suffer less boost drop and our decision to opt for a true air/liquid core from Bell Intercoolers has been a key factor.

• No idle drop/stall - this is typical in supercharger intallations where the supercharger is after the throttle body as all of the pipework and IC now act like a huge plenum and can cause stalling when coming off throttle at low rpm's if you don't blip the throttle in time. We have overcome this issue with the smaller packaged integrated plenum-charge-cooler solution.