Ok I need some help. I have a guy wanting to selll his cobra blower. He is including eveything, intercooler - intake - i assume its builit - throttle body - injectors - what all do I need again to make this work for my GT? I need to know AsAp so those of you who know I appreciate it.

 

it wont fit onto our 2v engines....srry..just cant happen..but if u had a mach 1 enging layin around it would work

 

anything can work with enough money and fabrication . . .

but i think putting a cobra blower ona 2v would be less expensive then a new supercharger kit

 

First statement is true, second is not. :shifty:

 

I can find a cobra blower for $600. There needs to be a lower intake fabricated to fit the 2V heads. After that something needs to be fabricated to allow the cooling system to flow. You would still need the cobras heat exchanger, coolant tanks.

I think he could get it done for alot less than a blower kit would cost if he had the means of fabricating parts.

 

its more involved then that, there was a writeup somewhere and it was ridiculously long and looked like a PITA

 

and then, you would have a stock eaton... not that you couldnt up the boost, but still

 

definatley not worth it

 

Well what if I switched in some 4v heads - and new interals... probly - wut 2500 in parts then 1500 for a stock cobra blower and parts.... i dunno proably 4-5k in the whole deal, wouldnt be too bad if i polished and ported the blower and the heads while i was at it... that could be a 600 rwhp car - all said and done fo yea, probably 4500-6k... Maybe an option -

I figure possibly 6 or 7k in total w/ install help where its needed...

 

your better off getting a motor off of a wrecked terminator cobra..there is soo much that could go wrong with the swap..its just not worth the hassel...and if its 6-7k total..your better getting a vortech or other type of supercharger...u can get up to 400 hp at the wheels for a lil under 4.5k... less hassel to just get a supercharger that fits ur model

 

Definately not worth it. I almost bought a cobra blower for my GT before I researched it a bit. Glad I didn't get it because it would have been on big expensive paper weight.

 

If you're willing to go through the expense of cutsom fab work to make that blower fit and upgrade to 4V heads, just drop the money you would have put into that on a KB kit. You'll get just as much or better power and a lot more reliability.

 

even contemplating a terminator blower setup on a GT is wasteful. It just costs too much to make it work. 4V heads would make it possible and easier but no less expensive. 600rwhp requires a WELL built motor and the cost of doiing that is almost prohibitive when you can get a genuine terminator motor from blower to oil pan for 7grand and drop it right in.

You're better off getting a vortech or paxton and yanking the 400hp your motor is good for out of it than trying to save where you can't and blowing the budget by the thousands of dollars.

 

would'nt 600hp also require a new rear end etc.?

 

not really... in excess of 450rwhp would be a stout load to put on any part of a stock GT drivetrain but not so much that any upgrade would be required so much as recommended. The stock clutch will certainly not hold that and is as such the one general exception to the following (the 3650 and T5/T45 tranny are rated well below that but if you don't go romping on it with high rpm lauches it will hold).

You have to think of the drivetrain as a giant fuse box. Once you've built the motor, it's no longer as small a fuse as it used to be. Upgrade the clutch, and it's no longer the weak link, upgrade the tranny and it's no longer a weak link, and so on and so on. What you're trying to do in the best engineered cases is to build a total package that will perform to your specifications and be strong enough in each component to survive the rigors of daily abuse.

A stock 28 spline T-lock and stock axles will hold ungodly amounts of power while in motion, it's the shock loading associated with racing and mad-******* on the street that usually breaks stuff.

Cliffs notes: Build each part to hold the power that you'll make or you have to comprimise in how you use that power.

 

How true that statement rings.