OP
OP
When I first started my build, I picked up a Holley 5.4l s/c intake. Holley made about 75 s/c kits for the 5.4l trucks. The kit added about 100hp and wasnt the best kit available, but perfect for a stock non-forged piston engine. I centered my build around the kit even though I only had the intake and water air cooler that resides down into the intake. Cobra pistons, npi heads, stock pi cams, shorty headers.
I still didnt have the blower!! I looked everywhere only to source 3 kits country wide, so I called Holley's head quarters in Bowling Green here in Ky. I talked to a guy refered to as Supercharger Mike. He ran me down the history of the kit, finally saying "we have no available parts" because the minimal amount of kits made, Holley had all the machining farmed out, keeping on the shelf items to a minimum. Supercharger Mike then says "Although I have everything you need sitting on a shelf at home, except the intake"...which I already had. We exchanged #'s, I meet with him, $1200 later...my kit was 90% complete minus a crank pulley.
Since I own a machine company, I just widdled out a 10rib crank pulley. No biggy!
I still didnt have the blower!! I looked everywhere only to source 3 kits country wide, so I called Holley's head quarters in Bowling Green here in Ky. I talked to a guy refered to as Supercharger Mike. He ran me down the history of the kit, finally saying "we have no available parts" because the minimal amount of kits made, Holley had all the machining farmed out, keeping on the shelf items to a minimum. Supercharger Mike then says "Although I have everything you need sitting on a shelf at home, except the intake"...which I already had. We exchanged #'s, I meet with him, $1200 later...my kit was 90% complete minus a crank pulley.
Since I own a machine company, I just widdled out a 10rib crank pulley. No biggy!
