shaun12

If i wanted to install a supercharger ona stock04 GT...what else, if anything would i have to change/ upgrade to my engine to support the supercharger?

this would be on a 2V 4.6L 04 GT

importkiller89

deffsuggest exhaust and tune

jpmustanggt

If you buy a complete kit like the mongoose kit from Modular Powerhouse then it comes with everything you need including the tune.

Neaty

would it not need low compression pistons and a head gasket to match?

2000GT4.6

+1

You can put a blower kit, like the one from MPH, on a completely stock car. It of course won't make the power that say a full boltons/other mods car would make, but even on a completely stock car you should make say 350 WHP on 8 PSI, a big upgrade from what you have now, and any future mods you make will make a much bigger difference with FI than they would without.

You don't need any new gaskets, low compression pistons, or anything like that. I am running a 10 PSI vortech setup, and if I had not done the cams before the blower the vavle covers would not even have come off.

If I could change anything, I would have done the blower the first thing and done the other mods in stages, instead of doing the n/a mods first. the blower simply made x10 the difference in the car compared to any (or all combined) of the boltons.

shaun12

Sweet...thanks.I was under the impression that i would need to buy an inter-cooler, some sort of oil cooler and so on to keep the car from running hot. And apparently it isnt as easy as just slapping on a supercharger all buy itself either.

Also i do understand that i wouldnt make awsome power without all the other little bolt-ons and power adders. I was just curious as to what it'll take to put one on my car, as far as parts and such.

nanaki

an intercooler will help, but is not needed. i ran my car non-cooled at 10psi for a almost a year with no problems. i later added methanol injection, which gave me an additional 50RWHP. meth kits can be had for 200-400 for a complete kit. great alternative to an intercooler.

shaun12

can you use both together or is just one or the other?

nanaki

you can use both and get even more power. the methanol not only cools the intake temp, but it also acts as an octane booster.

2000GT4.6

The only things you 100 percent need are what comes with the complete kits, that is to say the blower, all the stuff to hook it up (brackets/pipe etc), injectors, sparkplugs, and fuel pump (along with a tune). All this stuff is to make sure that it gets enough fuel and burns it correctly now that you will be building boost and needing more fuel.

The other boltons, like the exhaust and intake stuff, help because they make the engine more efficent. A supercharged car's power output is nothing more than the n/a power output multliplied by the amount of boost your running. There is no 100 percent accurate forumla, but its safe to say that the more power you make n/a, the more you will make once you go FI (not taking into account stuff like compression and cam overlap). Likewise, while a bolton might give you 10 WHP n/a, it's effect is multiplied by the boost, so instead of 10 WHP n/a from a set of LTs you might make 20+ WHP FI.