Other then the fact that they are pricy, why not add a paxton supercharger to a 289? I read that they add up to 40% more hp. I also read a post where they debated whether or not the older vesion (ball drive or something??) is much inferior to the newer kind (gear drive I think). What are some of the pros & cons to these things?

I saw this set up on ebay. what do you guys think....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...RK%3AMEWA%3AIT

Also found a guy who services these older superchargers..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...RK%3AMEWA%3AIT

 

Pros: You'd be the biggest badass this side of the moon. You get tons of power
Cons: costs a bagillion dollars. (could you send me the link of the cheapest one you find?)
Good luck. MTFBWY in finding a good cheap one!

 

If i had the money.... i would get one, no matter what anybody says.

 

the old ball bearing ones are junk

 

i dont know much about superchargers, but wouldnt you get like 1MPG too?

 

I have not heard anything about them causing poor gas milage.

 

I use to have a 2001 nissan Frontier Crew Cab with a v6 Supercharged, biggest piece of junk you can buy, but anyways i was getting 180 miles to a tank of gas, and it would cost me 90.00 cdn to fill it up with premium and that was driving it decently. You will be able to watch the needle drop. I was actually looking at there website a few days ago and thinking someday I would add one of those, but first I'm adding A/C and overdrive. Hoping to have my car finished in the next week. I will post pics when done.

68 mustang Fastback 289, 4 barrel edelbrock carb, msd distributor, Flow tech headers, Baer Front Disk Brakes

 

o, well, a supercharger will be the VERY LAST THING i add to my car then. by the end of the summer i hope to have a paint job and all body fixed, new rear and front discs. thats my summer goals as of now.

 

I'm not sure how that set up would work. All the ones I have seen have a box that the carb goes in. The reason for this if the entire carb has to be pressurized becasue the bowls need to be pressurized too. If you try to ram that much air down the carb without the box it would blow fuel out of the bowl vents. I also understand they are had to get tuned correctly. They go like heck when you do though. All that being said I have been thinking about one too.

 

well it works grate my auto teach built and worked on a race car for one of his friends and in had a Paxon in it it that thing had power i cant remember the torque or HP but it got sponsored form comp cams and some one else for ever producing that much power with that kind of set up..... it was a fox body i don't remember what year