From searching through other threads/forums I guess I should start by saying as much as I like and respect the 03/04's, I don't have one and don't plan on getting one so please just don't respond if all you're gonna tell me is to buy one. I love my 01 and don't see it going anywhere anytime soon, but I need a little more power so I just want some advice from some of you guys. Unless something changes sometime soon I'll be building it on a budget, a little bit at a time. I want to do it right, my car is my dd the majority of the time and as much as I want more power I also need to keep it reliable. With all that being said, I want to supercharge it. I'm back and forth between vortech and procharger, either one will give me plenty enough power but I really like the sound of the procharger better. I've read that the stock internals for my 01 are good for 450 or so, I seriously doubt I'll ever go over that but my question mainly is how long would it be able to safely handle that? Like I said before, this isn't gonna be an overnight build so if I need to upgrade the internals I can, I found this MMR Street Mod 900 Rotating assembly for around $1300 since I don't need the crank. Would that be all I need as far as the motor? What should I be looking at for the transmission, irs , etc? Right now all I have is bassani mid-lengths, x-pipe, exhaust, k&n fipk, aluminium driveshaft and 4:10 gears, would I need to change any of that with FI? What about cams? I've heard the 01 cams are supposed to be pretty good, so would I really see that much difference if I changed them? Sorry for all the questions, I'm pretty lost when it comes to forced induction!

 

I would recommend vortech, just because it's a lot cheaper to piece one of those kits together. you can piece together an intercooled vortech setup with fuel upgrades and prolly even a dyno tune for around 3500. aside from the blower, all you'll really need for supporting mods are a better fuel pump(I'd go with the stryker 340 or aeromotive stealth), bigger injectors, 39lbers from a 03/04 cobra or 42lb green tops, and a better maf, lightning maf should suffice.

With basically any vortech head unit you will reach your goal, so you can go with anything from a v1 s, v2 s, or a v2 si or v1 T, the better one you get the less boost you'll have to make to meet your goal, and the less boost usually makes it a tad safer. if you get a si or T trim with say 10psi intercooled with a safe amount of timing you should have no problem getting between 4-450 at the wheels, and it should be safe for quite a while unless you take it over that.

 

Yeah I'm kinda leaning toward the vortech just because its a lot cheaper, and I haven't really heard anything negative about them. So pretty much Aside from the fuel system upgrades, I wouldn't need to really upgrade anything else in order to keep the reliability?

 

nope i know of a lot of stock everything cars with just a vortech. your exhaust will be fine and will help with how efficient it is, basically like i said you need the kit(or piece one together), maf, injectors, fuel pump, and a tune.

 

Well that's good, maybe my little build won't take quite as long as I thought. Thanks man!

 

i dunno what you have in mind for the kit, but i would highly suggest intercooling it. you can save yourself like 300 bucks by doing non intercooled but you'll be way down on power when the cars hot, like if you make 450 on the dyno, then go drive 20 minutes on the highway and the heat soak will make you have under 400hp. plus by keeping the incoming air as cool as possible will make the kit that much better for your engine.

 

I was a shop owner for 7 years before we divorced, and we were an authorized Procharger dealer. I know that the kits were easy to install and I had a great person that could tune it with a dyno, always had good luck with them, just be careful with the amount of boost you want, make sure that your bottom end of the engine can handle what you throw at it. I guess I am bias because I never dealt with any other brand.