Supercharged Austin seven engine advice

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If you are a complete newcomer to Austin 7's, the best advice I could give you would be to forget the idea of a supercharged engine in your special.  An engine with a new crank, better pistons, cam etc will give you plenty of power and torque together with reliability.  It will also be much easier on your wallet!
Remember, 33BHP in a light Austin special is 100 BHP per ton.  If you want silly performance you could buy a bike engined Lotus 7 type kit car for the cost of building a supercharged Austin 7 engine.

Hi Malcolm thanks for the advice. I am completely new to the prewar stuff.

To give you an idea of cost there was a supercharged engine on eBay at £18000 if you do the maths that's a reasonable price.