turbos vs. supercharged
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I'm planning (ie. dreaming) my future LS1 rebuild to include boost. I know the differences in performance of turbos vs. supercharging , but my car is a daily driver and through research and listening it seems like turbo guys are constantly rebuilding/replacing their turbos. are superchargers life expectency any longer? I have wife , kids , the mortgage etc.. and if I shell out 5K+ for boost i'd have to get more than 15k miles at least before I can even imagine explaining to the lil woman that I need to fix something.. i average 20K miles a year on the car..
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Superchargers are usually less maintenance IIRC, Procharger for example I think the maintenance would just be changing the S/C oil and maybe replacing the belt.
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Personally, if budget and money was a serious concern, I wouldn't do a high dollar build on a daily driver that I put 20k miles per year on. I agree with the "second car" comment, I'd put the build money into buying a basic daily driver and then start saving again to do the build on your toy.
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I'm planning (ie. dreaming) my future LS1 rebuild to include boost. I know the differences in performance of turbos vs. supercharging , but my car is a daily driver and through research and listening it seems like turbo guys are constantly rebuilding/replacing their turbos. are superchargers life expectency any longer? I have wife , kids , the mortgage etc.. and if I shell out 5K+ for boost i'd have to get more than 15k miles at least before I can even imagine explaining to the lil woman that I need to fix something.. i average 20K miles a year on the car..
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Lol yup been down that road with my last trans am modded dd it sucked when something broke or wasn't running perfect and u have to drive it everyday. Now I got 2 cars and my project trans am is paid for the last one had payments on it lol never do that again
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I was going to ask this same question - what has had my interest peaked has been the turbo kit on ebay for $1000 that fits an LS1 and produces 100 extra HP. I suppose then this is too good to be true and no good for a daily driver!
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something some one told me awhile ago is even if u get a 2nd car so u can mod ur fbody dosnt mean u dont have to drive that car every day, my 2000 trans am is my DD but i have an 87 chevy mud truck thats decently street friendly, i DD my T/A every day but when i go to do something to it or something happens and it takes a few days, i dont sweat it and drive my truck and suck up the 10mpg for a few days till my cars done.
also when my cars fine i can take the truck out and play with it at an event or bog and not worry if it breaks or not as i got my t/a (truck was my first vehicle/DD for awhile lol) when it broke it sucked
also when my cars fine i can take the truck out and play with it at an event or bog and not worry if it breaks or not as i got my t/a (truck was my first vehicle/DD for awhile lol) when it broke it sucked