AMR Budget Kit

Our Budget carbureted AMR based kit is designed to work on 40/50/60hp upright style Type 1 engines.

Our budget kit is the cheapest AMR500 kit on the market. Why bother with expensive rip off by copy-cat vendors? This gets the job done at a fraction of the cost of our competitors.

This is a reissue of the very first kit we built back in 2013 (a full ten years before those other vendors started trading). It is aimed at the budget conscious who want an easy DIY solution without the hassle of having to make their own parts. You get the same quality as our higher performance kits but at a fraction of the price. 

Manifolds have rounds ports to help keep costs down. These are the same sized round ports used by our competitors on their top shelf products, so you can expect to make the same power at a fraction of the cost. 

The kit is designed to work with an aftermarket serpentine belt setup and standard AMR500 pulley to give an output of approximately 6psi. We don't supply the serpentine pulleys so you can save money by sourcing those yourself or by using what you already have. 

The tee manifold is sized matched to both dual and single-port end castings. Steel parts have a basic paint coating for corrosion protection. This kit ships with the following items:

• All-in-one uprated high flow tee manifold.
• S&S inlet manifold
• Supercharger stand
• High pressure silicone hoses
• High pressure hose clamps
• Throttle cable kit
• Gasket set
• Fittings

The budget kit is available in three different specification levels

Stage 1

The Stage 1 kit includes the following parts

• Tee Manifold
• S&S Inlet Manifold
• The mounting bracket is a simplified version that does not include the belt tensioner so you can use the belt tensioner that came with your serpentine kit and save some money.

Stage 2 

The Stage 2 kit includes everything in the Stage 1 kit plus the following components

• Blower pulley (Specify size when ordering)

Stage 3

The Stage 3 kit includes everything in the Stage 2 kit plus the following components

• The mounting bracket is fitted with our standard tensioner arm 
• Drive belt that will work with standard AMR pulley and serpentine kit. (NOTE PK4 is supplied as standard. If you want a PK5 belt leave a note at checkout) 

Fitment Notes

• The kit is designed to be installed on 40/50hp engines and will fit beetles, busses and other body styles.
• The kit can also be used on later 60hp style engines if used with a generator or easy access alternator. It is also possible to modify a standard alternator.
• The kit will fit under the decklid of a bug without requiring decklid standoffs.
• A small modification is required to your distributor to limit overall advance. Instructions are provided.
• The uprated tee manifold requires some minor clearancing to the generator stand.
• The kit can be installed with a vee belt setup, however this is far from ideal as the available grip from the vee belt is limited and will generally result in belt slip even at low boost levels. Our recommendation is to use a serpentine belt setup.
• We recommend our 'Performance' kit for higher capacity and higher boost applications as the square manifolds of the performance kit flow more which results in less heat, more flow and higher boost. The performance kit also has a drive system better suited to high boost applications.

Please Note:

• This kit does not include the blower, carburettor or serpentine pulleys. Suitable carburettors are available to purchase separately.
• This product is made to order and is subject to manufacturing lead time.
• To find out what the current lead time is, please check the lead time page.

Add one of our S&S style carburettors to your order and save $$ !!!