Riptide

LT + Cams should be an easy 40whp right there. The intake/tune, pulleys should add another 20 easy. 60+ should be a piece of cake.

Do the LT install yourself and save $500+.

If your long term goal is to get the blower regardless that changes things. Just put the money away for it. Any cams you get for an NA app aren't going to give you the gains a blower cam would. The pulleys would just have to come off again with a twinscrew. The intake as well. So half the things you bought would just end up needing to be removed in that case.

Nuke

Silly wabbit.

You can sink equal or more money in mods other than going FI and maybe get close but end up with reliability issues. FI is the only way to go if you're not satisfied with about 50-60 additional RWHP with typical bolt-ons.

Riptide

If it were me. If I was going to be able to get the blower within a year, two at most. I would do this.

Put in FRPP gears, headers, and intake/tune. If you do cams do blower cams otherwise don't do them at all. Put the headers and intake/tune on the car yourself and save the install cost. Get a good gear install done.

Be happy, and save up. Of those mods only the intake/tune would need to come off with the blower. Buy the blower, sell the old intake/tune, and your off to the races.

stealth_GT

ditto, even the Vortech v3 non-intercooled weighs a good 25-28 pounds you're mounting onto the front right side of the motor, though you'll be making a good 120-150 more whp. The cooled kit, I'd imagine packs on about another 40-45(maybe 50 lbs), so total with piping and such, it would be around 70-75ish pounds. But at that point, the kit should add about 200-220whp total.

zkiller

You want to go fast?
Get a blower.
If not add a few bolt-ons for fun.

KB twin-screw has worked flawlessly for me.
11.40-11.45 times (consistent like a bracket car)

replica

I didn't realize blowers were so "cheap." $4K isn't bad if that includes EVERYTHING, including a reasonable shelf tune. My noobness has me fearing breaching the 400whp mark due to reliability issues.

howarmat

well 4k is the lower end, they can easily cost 6500 to

also you should get some better suspension and good tires...235 width just doesnt cut it even for a little over stock HP let alone 100HP more. Plus tuning. You will have to get a tuner or tune for the s/c which might not be included in the initial cost.

Riptide

If he gets a whipple he can always just run the whipple tune. But yah... forget 4k then. lol

replica

The stock 235's haven't survived the 93 oct SCT tune, lol.


So, trying to be as accurate as possible, what would the true cost to have that $3,900 Supercharger on my car? Only engine mod I have is an SCT tuner. I assumed Brenspeed would just send me their shelf tune for that blower and I just upload it to the ECU, install the blower and I'm ready to rock. Or am I just blissfully ignorant?

Riptide

It is that easy.