I dealt with the fact that I really cant afford a mini quite yet, so Ill be sticking with the neon for now and Ive come up with a bit of an interesting project.
Here is what I need:
Pictures of stock R53 supercharger(as many angles as possible on car shots are a plus too)
Pictures of stock discharge elbow and in fact all of the supercharger pluming.
Physical dimensions of the supercharger(length width height etc)
Pics of engine on stand with most of the SC stuff routed
Any service manual diagrams of the SC system

My only other question right now is about the water pump drive gear, can it be removed/blocked off as I will have no use for it.

Thanks everybody

 

You realize that the engine you have is different than the one in the first gen MINI's?

 

Different motors but they share some DNA so I can see where he's going with this.

 

Yes but the engine has nothing to do with the mini being the best source I can think of for cheap appropriately sized supercharger components, the only 2 roots style neons that have been done used the M90 and M62 blowers and they both wound up with packaging and heat(smashing the supercharger between the block and radiator isnt good who would have thought) issues.

The tritec was based off the 1.6 export neon engine however it is different enough that a swap would be way too much work for almost no gain.