Blown or Crate Motor???
I was doing some thinking......Why spend 8,000 for a SC when you can buy a crate motor for about 4,000 with the same amount of HP/TQ?????? Anyone want to elaborate on this?????
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What SC is $8000?
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KB 1.7 is at 6895.00 without Install and without everything else you need when up gradeing.....
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What year car do you have? I got my KB 1.7L w/big tube kit, 90MM MAF, 75 MM TB, tune and the boost-a-spark.....delivered to my door for just over $6200. I did the install, which is really rather easy. That saved some coin there. If you are going to get the KB I would really recommend you doing the install yourself. The tune they send is actually pretty good. I layed down great numbers and my A/F is right where it should be. If you are military, tell them.....you get 5% discount too.
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That sounds pretty good, but i'm not that good of a mechanic....Yes I am in the Military. Let me know what you can do for me, Thanks
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If you order, order by phone. See if you can talk to Lisa. She gave me the discount. In all honesty, you don't need to be some great mechanic to do a KB install. They send out an install manual with pics and everything. It took me 2 days to do the install with no help. It really is not hard at all.
I wish I was still stationed in NC, I would help with the install. |
For alittle over $6000, you could get a kick ass crate motor that has tons of HP and TQ. Also the internals would be beefed up for a SC later on. Brothers performace sells a kit were you get an New 01 Cobra motor that has everyhthing on it, the tranny, exhaust and computer for under 6 grand. But like i said 6 G's for a SC or 6 G's for a motor, i would go with the motor.
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you can get a used centrifugal blower kit for around $2000-2500
To get a crate motor with similar numbers to a blower motor you would have to go high compression which would not go well with a blower later on. If I were to get a crate motor with the plans for a blower then there wouldn't be a ton of power gain due to the lower compression that I would get. I plan to just swap out the rotating assembly on my engine eventually |
Yes, unless you are talking about a 5.0 based crate motor, with pushrods and one cam, no crate motor for 4k is going to touch a blower. The 6895 you are looking at I guess is from Modular Power House? In that case, it is installed, tuned, and everything for that price. Id definately get the blower first.
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buy a crate motor and then blow it that way you wont have any hard decisions...
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If you are military, tell them.....you get 5% discount too.
boy do I wish I had known that when I bought mine......damn. |
roush supercharger for 8000
Originally Posted by steve-o
What SC is $8000?
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I say KB!!!!
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Andys Auto sport is a joke! they are a 3 person dealer. If your going to spend the money..turbo it. It's more tunable and can make alot more power.
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for gah i cant see ever spending 8g's for some boost.
brand new procharger is like what 3500$? yea turbo > Centri blower > roots/twin screw blower |
spend a lot less and just build a 4.6. They're not that expensive to build and you can have it built to whatever level you want to fund. If you want boost later, there's always room for a centri under the hood and you'll at least have a motor built for boost.
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