z28MP

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I went with the 2.8 one. We got it on yesterday but we have to cut in the hood. So it went back off.

Frost

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The Vettes that I see with them have aftermarket hoods.

z28MP

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Yea I got a vis cowl hood. Even with the hood that comes with the tuner kit you are supposedly have to cut. It's the back part where the hood meets the cowl.

icen

I have one on my c6. Most it put down is 550, but also i have 500+tq at 2k at the wheels with 11lbs of boost. In my opinion the heat exchanger is a joke, its tiny as hell. Meth kit is a must, only way that i keep my iats in the 180s and thats stop and go traffic. Where as if i didnt run meth they go just over 220. I have been looking for an upgrade, which I might have found. I beleive it was ECS that did a hummer for a customer in Dubai, it looked very promising.

robert miller

The Kenne Bell on the corvette per say are junk, Now the Mustangs and the others on stock forum are good. I had the 2.8H on my vette had all kind of problems IAT where out the roof and the thing only made less than 650 rwhp. I pulled it off and the only diff put a A/A YSI unit on the car motor and made 857 rwhp on a Mustang dyno. I know some one said above that the Kenne bell pulls as good as the cenfi units. No way will the kenne bell do this on the top end. You tuner will have to ZERO out the whole table in the tune on the IAT with the Kenne bell. This is what jeff does or did in the past. Plus the way jeff lies about stuff cant believe nothing he would tell you.

novaflash2002

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if your furnace ever breaks, you can hook a kenne bell up to a electric motor and heat your house.

East Coast Supercharging

We will not install or tune any KB's here, if that tells you anything..

robert miller

That is funny I dont care who you are. I am guessing you were also lied to by the big mouth JEFF.

I agree just not worth the problems when the thing dont make the # then the customer is thinking it is the shop who ever the shop will be.

z28MP

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What would you think would be the best route? Run some meth on it or bring it in to kb and have them do the liquid cooled upgrade to the blower, or both?
Thanks

robert miller

The meth dont work that good at all with the K.B. on the vettes. Due the the intake.

novaflash2002

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Sell it, go turbo.


Na thought of the joke at the moment. thought it fit. ive done one maggie and a couple turbo cars. turbo is the only way i will go if i am not building a pickup tq monster. then i would do a s/c.

rocket5979

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Bullshit! The vacuum bypass in my KB 2.2 blower is about 1.5-1.75" in diameter. Wouldn't exactly call that a sharpie marker sized bypass.

rocket5979

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If you are talking about the HE itself, mounted in the front bumper then mine in my Ford is the same size as an 03-04 Cobra stock HE. Roughly about 1.5" thick, 28"-30" long, and about 8" tall by my recollection. Haven't been around the truck for a while so that is just pulling the dimensions off of the top of my head. To keep your IAT's in better check with a TS blower it is all about having a bigger HE with more fluid cooling capacity and a good IC pump. This will DRAMATICALLY decrease heatsoak. Adding an electric pusher fan to it will also help if you so choose to add one.

It seems KB has changed some over the years, especially when they started making their blower in house versus using Autorotor blowers. Back when it was just the 1.7, 2.2, and 2.4 the quality was really good and they made GREAT power and IAT's were manageable. Back then they always had GREAT product but lousy customer service, and straight up lied about a few things back then too. I don't have any direct experience with their big bore 2.6, 2.8 and whatnot units but it does seem people are having more issues for some reason. I am willing to bet that when they started making their stuff in house that quality control may have become an issue. Just my guess looking at the situation developing over the last 8 years.

The TS's do always compress but while the vehicle is idling or very near idle the blower is not supplying enough air for the engine. So the vacuum bypass diaphragm is hooked up to manifold vacuum in the lower intake manifold. Once it senses vac then it sucks the vacuum bypass open and you are pulling in air around the blower itself while at idle or very mild part throttle.

ysb02

The vette kits aren't made by KB btw. Someone purchases the blowers from KB and makes everything else. I haven't heard of anyone complaining about the units themselves.

What IATs do the Ford guys see? I see them posting about 700/800+ rwhp from the big KB blowers on GT500s/Cobras.

robert miller

I agree with you it is just the corvette that this unit is having problems with the IAT AND ALSO NOT MAKING GOOD RWHP. Like jeff will tell you it will on the vettes. The Mustangs and the new camero,s the T/S set up is doing good.

ysb02

Also it's Kenne Bell designing + making these kits for the fbodies / 'stangs so they have some manpower. With the current KB vendor if something would ever happen to the person/shop you would not be able to get replacement parts and be SOL.

I wouldn't call the T/S a better design over the roots, it's just different and has its own pros/cons. For all the talk about efficiency on the T/S they seem to produce a lot of heat.

Frost

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They are miserable on the Vettes.

Gordon0652

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Frost, great responses! Honest man!

robert miller

Say that double for me man. After having now the YSI and seeing what the F1A will do in the vettes or any other car. I would never have nothing more in my car unless it was a ttix kit in it. Sure in the hell will never ever look at a kenne bell. After the vendor that sells them over in the corvette forum.

novaflash2002

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o sorry; so like a king size sharpie. the point is if the bypass worked correctly the s/c should cool back down, but they don't. it holds heat for some reason, usually because they are compressing (or in boost) all of the time.