RE: blowers?
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the kenne belle will be far less efficient than a vortech. if the kenne belle for our cars could be had with an intercooler, i'd be far more apt to consider it, but for ease of installation and overall power/efficiency, i'd go with a centrifugal type supercharger, such as the vortech. Just more bang/buck, IMO. 6-7 lbs of boost with a vortech will get you an extra 100-125 rwhp, just like they're claiming for the kenne belle.And the amount of money jeremi has into that car is rediculously small. He's got less into his supercharged car than i have in my NA car.
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Kenne Bell responded to some similar concerns in an email to me:
"...The intercooler doesn't help the efficiency of the blower itself but it will help the temperatures in which you can run more boost or timing on the same setup. Just by lowering temperatures you won't gain hp you gain hp by raising timing or boost. As far as ease of installation it's only about a 4-6 hour job for our kit as you are basically just replacing the intake manifold. He is right about getting the same hp increase at the same amount of boost. You can't just look at hp increase overall with our kit though. Look at the torque curve and hp curve we make more power and torque down in the powerband. If you were racing on the same setup for both kits the KB would win as it has more power down low. For street use a lot customers love our kit as you don't have to wind up the motor to get the vehicle moving. It's instaneous power. For race use a centrifugal might be better as you are in the upper rpms but then a turbo is more efficient than a centrifugal. He is correct that if our kit had an intercooler it would be better but we would have to redesign the whole kit to get and intercooler setup on it. Hope this helps you out better. Thank you, KB..."
Due to his apparently honest response, I would be more apt to go with a KB now more than ever. As he says, the KB would be prefered in a daily driver, which is what I am looking for. It also helps to have good power down low with my stock 3.07 gearing. (I can sense some of you scratching your heads, "...he's got 3.07 gears with an Eaton posi, 3000 stall converter, and an Art Car tranny?!?..." This is just the way I decided to build up my car...I'm funny that way.) Just thinking about the launch in drags makes me salivate somewhat...
Over the phone, he said that the kit for the Mustangs should work on our cars with very little modification, though he admits he has never seen one installed on a Mark. The nice thing about living in LA is that there are plenty of good speed shops who can do the install properly...
Lastly, I sent an email to Vortech asking them the same questions but never received a response. That makes me wonder...
[/div]"Developed by Dennis Reinhart"... are you trying to be funny or something?