turbo charged or supercharged
 

i was wondering what do you guys think is the better way to go turbo charged or supercharged

thats kinda a vauge quetion

roots blower? or cent. blower? are you looking for overall power or cost effectiveness?

Depends on what you want to do with it.

Roots/Twin Screw - Bad ass steet machine

Centri - Street/Strip blower that is more cost effective than a KB

Turbo - King of the mountain but very expensive and costly to install. But most come with tons of stuff like manifolds, h pipe, new suspension stuff.

www.modularpowerhouse.com they have great info on blowers.

there are no good 2v turbo kits. unless you want to spend tons on a twin kit. and the only one of those i like is the induction concepts kit. which is 10 g's. i say centri blower for a street car

The most important question is how much HP do you want to make and how deep are your pockets. A supercharger kit doesnt come with headers,kmember and few other things that add up close to what the turbo kit costs. $4k for a supercharger add $1200 for kmember and headers so you see it really comes out to $5200. You have to add up all the components that are included or not included to compare the two.

put a single turbo on your 2v and watch your power fall fast after 5200 rpms. why do you think all the turbo guys went kenne bell. look at sneaky petes car, for example

also, the turnaround for a turbo kit is a very long time. look at around 6 months after ordering to receive your kit

5,000 it doesn't seem that much i would really like to put a twin turbo kit because you dont see that often in mustangs all i really want is my 5.0 to run 11's im tired of stupid 4 bangers beating me

You cant get a twin turbo setup for $5K. MPH sells the HP twin kit for just over 6K for the kit or just over 7K installed and tuned.

For under 5K total your real only option is a centri blower, sure you can buy a KB 9psi kit for under 5K but you cannot get any supporting mods that you need such as axles and diff if you plan to launch hard or run slicks or drag radials safely. Also if you are going to have someone install it for you a KB is way over 5K and the centri would be about $4700 installed from MPH for a Novi and 4300 for the vortech SQ.

if 5 thousand dollars is your ultimate budget i wouldnt go power adder. the rear needs to be built as well as other breakages that arise in the power adder world. especially in a 5.0 which is an older car with weak blocks.

Either way will make more HP. It's just a matter of how much money you are willing to spend. For a 4V Cobra all effort Street turbo setup, if you have to ask how much it costs...you don't have enough money.

The general consensus is 20k to begin a turbo setup on a 4V Cobra. I don't imagine the 2V to be too much different, except in the cost of Heads/Cam's being about half the price.

Either way. If you go Supercharger on a 2V get a Novi 2K...you'll never make more power then it can handle. If you go Turbo just research alot...compressor sizing and routing is critical to the characteristics of the combo.

Philip K.

you dont have to buy heads and cams. if you have a 2v go supercharger

yeah definitely supercharger, read up on the different types so you can get an idea of whats best for you, for $5,000 you can get a centrifugal installed and tuned with a new maf and a chip which will still be safe if you keep it low boost, and still get some cash back hopefully. turbos are going to run you a lot more and they are capable of more hp so youll spend a few thousand on stronger engine and drivetrain components.

so what would be the best supercharger for my 5.0 i heard that vortech was the best

There really is no "best" supercharger. It all depends on what you want to do with it.

Most of what I have seen:

Centri for a car that is street/strip with plans to build motor and up boost later

Kenne Bell for a car that is mainly street driven with the goal to be basically 14psi max on the 1.7L.

However with the grunt of a 5.0L I would go with either a vortech or paxton novi and would lean towards the Novi 2000.

Not true got mine in a month. You've got your figures from places like mph. You can actually find people who do turbo kits and have very reasonable prices and turbo kits. TT setup. Lot faster than the saleen supercharger i had on it. I'm very impressed with its performance.

Lightning247 is correct, when everything is said and done it will be about 20k. Im in the process right now but doing it in 2 stages. Reinforcing the Cobra block and suspension then power adder later.