Hci or vortech or any other ideas

[95Five0]

95 gt. Extremely clean . 45k original miles . Dont want to butcher this car but I need some more power. Car has 3:73 rear end , full exhaust cia, smog and egr delete . A lot of people I talk to says put a vortech on it and call it good. My thing is even tho the car has low miles im still putting a supercharger on 31 year old engine components . Not sure if they would handle it. Id like to spend around 6k
Anderson has a votech kit that comes with everything I need to bolt on and get it running .
On the other hand I could probably pull off a trickflow top end kit for around the same price . Looking to make 300whp or more . I've also looked into on3 kits but seems like it has some fitment problems . Any ideas or experience with that kind of budget would be great.

 

[96blak54]

The supercharger is your best option retaining the cars originality, not butchering it up. Worst case would be new fuel tank, pumps, and fuel lines. The simplicity throwing on a mild supercharger is almost plug and play. Im sure others that know will chime in

 

[ttocs]

the only problem I see with any of these ideas is the tune. It is getting harder to find people to tune the stock ecu and not many are ready to invest for a new ecu the way most shops want.

 

[95Five0]

This is very true. Was hoping Ted Jenkins had a tune that woukd get me by which ever way I decided to go atleast untill im ready to invest into somthing more

 

[ttocs]

The thing about the mail in tunes on ours is that they are making a best guess based on previous cars they have worked on. In a perfect world all the parts would be EXACTLY the same and everything would run the same, and we would all have big titty wives that had a hot dinner and a bj waiting every night with no complaints. In the real world small differences in parts or sensor readings can throw things off a lot and then there is always the change in pressure/temps that will always be different, and your wife gets mad when you put the toilet paper on wrong and can't remember how to spell bj now after saying "I do". With our ecu if you have a problem with the tune you will need to take it out, send the chip back and hope he can make a better guess this time. Ted has a great record so don't get me wrong I am not talking crap about him(I will about bama chips from personal exp) but with out seeing live data and how the motor reacts he has to take your word on what it is or is not doing and make adjustments from there and it can be the blind leading the blind then. It is easy to make some small mods on a basic motor to help it run better but when you start getting into the heads or boost that makes tuning blind a little harder.