piecing together a supercharger kit...is that possible?

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Jan 2, 2008 | 06:50 PM

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Blackbird

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$800 for the head unit and pulleys and inlet hat. (yes deal of the century, like I said patient shopping. It had less than 1,000 miles on it too!)
$150 for the J bracket
$100 for a mondo bypass
$150 for ebay IC
$60 for MMS oversized crank pulley
and approx $250 or so in ebay 3" pipe, couplers and clamps.
$50 Air filter

Let me know if I missed anything but I think thats all the pieces and it's approx $1500 if you add it all up.

Want even more BS

this $1500 home made kit is making 650rwhp/620rwtq on stock cubes / stock bottom end. It's a low budget home built heads/cam/midlength headers setup all on the 6rib

The oversized MMS crank pulley actually works pretty good. Not nearly as well as the SDCE setup but it gets the job done. Just have to crank on the tensioner every so often.

Backed up with the proper fuel system and good tuning and she has been running strong this way for going on 3 or maybe it's 4 years now. 3 of the 4 years though at just 560rwhp. That was with the bigger pulley and dual ati intercoolers. When he went FMIC he pullied up.

Jan 2, 2008 | 06:59 PM

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ChevyChad

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Well chit!

What a story! Props

Jan 2, 2008 | 08:40 PM

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I still don't believe it lol. Unless you want to wait like 5 years, I dought your going to run into all those kinds of deals. In most cases the saying "you get what you pay for" proves true.

Jan 2, 2008 | 10:53 PM

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Originally Posted by rufretic

I still don't believe it lol. Unless you want to wait like 5 years, I dought your going to run into all those kinds of deals. In most cases the saying "you get what you pay for" proves true.

I don't doubt you can find a deal like that under Perfect timing and circumstances but I think deals like that are once every 10 years. When I looked for my blower I spent countless hours looking on all types of forums, and you have to keep checking every few hours it seems or by the time you see the killer deal someone just sent an instant paypal for it.

After all my searching I got my kit complete for $2,300 which I felt was a good deal.

Bottom line, if you think you can piece it together cheap, then great, but it would suck to be waiting all summer for the right deals to come along while the rest of us are beating up on Cobras.

(no dis intended)

Jan 3, 2008 | 05:08 AM

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Rickys S/C Z28

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Originally Posted by WAHUSKER

I just upgraded to EPPs FMIC, so I have most of the original P1/D1 parts. Let me know what you need & I'll give you prices....

hahaha me too

Jan 3, 2008 | 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Blackbird

don't mislead people here... I wouldn't consider that a complete kit. Not that your BS'n, those parts at what you paid is a deal! But there are other expenses that aren't being considered. For someone who put a setup together a few years ago, i'm sure you'd like to forget how much money was spent

... to me it's still fresh in my mind.... So far you've got $1560 in parts.

You still need:
Fuel injectors - $200 (used) to $400+ for nice ones new
Fuel Pump - $100 (minimum)
ATI fan & Shroud Assembly ~$300
ATI Radiator Support ~$50-75
Driven Pullies $50 used, ~$85 new
All loose Mounting Hardware ~$50
a GOOD tune - min $400 (professionally done) $200 ( handheld tuner)
Belts - won't count this but just a thought.
and lets not forget some oil for the blower. add all of this.. and the price is suddenly.

$2500 - $3000 which is exactly what I feel you'll end up spending to be driving in your car with a nicely put together used setup; more towards the $2500 if you happen to catch some killer deals, but again the "you get what you pay for" phrase comes to mind...

Jan 3, 2008 | 01:13 PM

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Blackbird

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From: Bellevue, Wa

I did say + fuel system and tune at the bottom of the post. I didn't list components as most "kits" dont provide that stuff.

But I did miss the fans, radiator support, and the belt. good catch.

So crank up the $1560 to $1900

Overall yes I agree with you, if you factor in everything, blower, tune, fuel, guages, etc... then if you score some killer deals $2500 is the cheapest your gonna get away with unless you steal the stuff

Jan 5, 2008 | 02:37 PM

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You can, i pieced together a vortech setup and had around 2000 in the setup (sold it for $2700 about a year ago) I spent 3 year gathering parts and finding good deals ($650 for blower, $400 for aftercooler and all tubing..)

If I was going to piece together a setup, it woudl be procharger, the vortech has VERY expensive parts, ie 1100 balancer assembly.

Ryan