Ryan86272

Well, as the Post says, By the End of June, I would like to Either Have a Vortech kit INstalled with INtercooler and everyting or Build my motor and Weight another Few Months on the S/c.

FIgure Built Motor Will Put me Where?? I wanna Build my Motor For Boost. fully Built is at like 300Whp?
Supercharger- Should put me in the High 300's Right? INtercooled Running 10lbs.

Thanks for the Info.

2002GTAUTOVERT

build your motor first, so when you supercharger it, you dont have to worry about forgingand can run high boost

red2k1gt

with a fully built motor and a s/c with i/c you should see 500rwhp with the right set up.

Shawn02GT

either way i hope you have deep pockets, this hobby isn't cheap

Triisomy21

While the power increase from the fully built motor will hardly be noticable, it'll give you plenty of time to break it in before you slap the blower on it.

You can enjoy the blower without the fully built motor...but once you get the motor, you can reallllllllly enjoy the blower.

Car_Ramrod

id say get the blower now so you can have some fun...then save up for the built motor. thats what im doing.

its not gonna be cheap. definitely not. especially if youre like me...youre gonna wanna get some blower cams and some heads put in while the motor is out. cams, heads, built aluminum block....$$$$

with all that, an intercooler, and then pulley the supercharger...500 rwhp should be a piece of cake.

2000GT4.6

I would highly recommend going with the blower first. Your comparing 300 or so WHP (if that with the blower cams installed) vs 360+ depending on your other installed parts.

With full boltons, and a i/c 10 PSI setup you should be looking at around 390-420 WHP depending on tune. Its not going to hurt anything so long as the tune is a good one, and you can enjoy that 390+ WHP until you get your shortblock in.

If your keeping the two in the same price range (or about) I assume your talking about doing a shortblock and maybe a set of cams? Even with ported heads etc, you will need to have a blower specfic (preferably custom) cam, not a n/a cam. The car isn't going to run that well n/a with the blower cams in. You will also want to run a lower compression ratio, which once again is not going to make good power n/a.

I don't think people realise that you can't go out and "build the motor" for a FI setup and run around with it n/a making good power. Your not going to see 330+ WHP like some of our other n/a 2v guys with a low compression blower cam setup.

One thing to think about, when/if you get the blower first, you should just go ahead and get the 60 lb/hr injectors and the proper fuel system to handle the horsepower levels you want to run when you build the motor. No reason to pay for the 42s and a SVT pump and then have useless parts laying around when you upgrade.

meebix

Put the blower on... build the motor as you go, then up the boost!

2000GT4.6

If I could do anything over again (other than starting with a 03 cobra ) I would put the blower on the very first thing, and then just did my modding in big stages to keep retune costs down. Even bone stock a PI car should put down 340-350 @ 8 PSI. 340 > anything boltons.

PWORLDSTANG

I say build the motor first.