What Should I Do With $5000

Grnstang · Apr 14, 2008

Didn't mean to get a rise out of anyone here, but I'm just basing my opinion on many stories I've heard and also the fact that I would not want to spend a few thousand on a blower and then several thousand later because I had it tuned wrong, or ran it too hard. I guess if your not going to beat the crap out of it, then stock/blown would probably be fine. I'm just saying if you had a forged motor it would be nice to know your really going to have to try to blow it up and it would probably open the door to much more power if you so choose to do so later. I'm not stating a fact, I'm just offering my opinion.

Jrgunn5150 · Apr 15, 2008

Grnstang said:
I'm just saying if you had a forged motor it would be nice to know your really going to have to try to blow it up and it would probably open the door to much more power if you so choose to do so later. I'm not stating a fact, I'm just offering my opinion.

no rise dude, just making my viewpoint on the subject clear.

As to what I quoted, I suspect this is the main reason forged motors let go sooner. People are more apt to get stupid with them.

Grnstang · Apr 15, 2008

Yeah I guess I see your point there...A buddy of mine has an all forged 5.0 sn95 and he's allways tryin to push it to the limits. I guess he has the money to mess around with though, so why not. I was debating on building my own engine over a couple of years to save, but I'm not sure what kind of set-up I really want to go with. I've also heard good stuff about hypereutectic pistons too and they would probably save me a good sum of money over forged, but I'm really not sure. Just throwin ideas around right now. Of course, if I do this project, I'm still gonna go with a set of forged rods though.

Bluesn95 · Apr 15, 2008

Our cars stock come with hypereutectic pistons. Also, they're not much cheaper. They're really good pistons for a N/A application but not for spray or boost.

Dalamar · Apr 15, 2008

5K and you want to keep it, and it's NPI.

Okay, I'd recommend this:
NPI blower cams
Vortec supercharger
Tune
Springs and LCA's

more power for your price range, and put it to better use, as well as lower the car so it looks and drives better.

97woodward · Apr 16, 2008

I recently put MM CC plates, MM RLCA's, and the Bullitt Suspension kit on. It lowered the car about an inch.

I already have PI Cams and the Livernois PI Intake Manifold Kit. I can return my PI cams any time I want before I install them. Would it be a better route to get NPI Cams? I plan to eventually get my NPI Heads Ported but after I get my blower.

Is there any benefit to going with NPI cams over PI?

Dalamar · Apr 16, 2008

yes, going with a blower specific cam, and of course the blower would be better.

Good choice on the LCA's

97woodward · Apr 17, 2008

What Cam do you think would be a good match?

Dalamar · Apr 17, 2008

Ya know, it's been a while since I looked, I just checked MPH and Livernois

Here's the catalog from Crower, the stage 2 cam is supercharger profile.
they make great cams.
http://www.crower.com/misc/m_cat.shtml

Anyone else know where to get a set of NPI blower cams? Cmon DroptopPony! (he knows, I'm sure)

Steven · Apr 17, 2008

aluminum driveshaft
panhard bar
full length sfc's
supercharger
supporting fuel upgrades and ignition for the blower
cams/heads/intake

Jrgunn5150 · Apr 17, 2008

The Crower's are the best off the shelf NPI grind

Dalamar · Apr 17, 2008

J.R. said:
The Crower's are the best off the shelf NPI grind

Give some recommendations!

Jrgunn5150 · Apr 17, 2008

You gave it, lol. The Crower stage II SC is the best off the shelf NPI blower cam out there, but IMO, for the price of cams, springs, and install labor, PI cams are a pretty sweet deal

Dalamar · Apr 17, 2008

shiznit, I misread you and thought you were saying they arn't the best...
My bad!

Carry on!

realitygt · Apr 17, 2008

kind of wondering for him and me, but if he would put pi heads and cams on his car and slap a blower on top would that be too high of compression for a blower? and what would be the max boost you guys would say to run on the stock lower end?

97woodward · Apr 18, 2008

So is the difference between PI cams and Crower Stage II Blower Cams worth $650? what do you think the RWHP difference would be between the crowers and the PI cams?

I am paying for the installation of both my PI Cams and Intake manifold kit , so I want to do this right the first time.

Fets · Apr 18, 2008

Idk...that one guy on here has a blower and he was going to get custom blower cams but he went with pi cams because it gave him more power over the blower cam.

Jrgunn5150 · Apr 18, 2008

sʇǝɟ said:
Idk...that one guy on here has a blower and he was going to get custom blower cams but he went with pi cams because it gave him more power over the blower cam.

No, he got PI cams because he wasn't going to swap springs, so the best he could gain was 10-15 rwhp over PI cams.

IF you swap spring's, the gains are more like 40-50. I have no idea what that's worth to you.