Don Pfau
Dedicated LVC Member
So far very good. What I like most about it is you would never know the supercharger is there if I didn't tell you. Very sleeper. But for the most potential performance I'd go with a inter cooled twin screw Whipple or KB like RoadBoss. I like the whine but everyone knows your supercharged. But for what ever reason the fastest verified modular Mark I've seen is Burbanks Vortech at 10.67 et. I have a spare low miles engine and was thinking of forging the bottom end but with the cast crank and the lighter forged rods and pistons to run just a little more boost. But the amount of competition is picking up. Ill probably soon be out ran by a N/A once Driller gets his going. Maybe I need to plan bigger. Lately I've been looking for a wrecked 5.0 GT with a automatic. Oh well good luck sir I'll be watching.
You have a low 12 in that thing if you can rev it more. I would definitely invest in a set of springs. My current fail chip tune on my 98 has the commanded shift points at 6100 and 6300 rpms. I have a feeling when it hits the dyno this next month and this current tune gets erased and re-done, the shift points are going to be up there even higher, possibly. When I ran my 13.59 and all of my other runs, I was manually shifting the car because of the fail tune. I remember shifting the car at 6500+ into 2nd gear and just about 6700 rpms into third gear. The Cobra intake really likes to breathe at the higher rpms and even trying to pull through premature lock-up into 3rd gear, I was still trapping at over 101mph. I think the Gen1 intakes are also good for just about as much rpms as the Cobra intakes are. The Gen2 intakes are dead at 6000 rpms. A paperweight in my opinion now that I know what a real intake is capable of. A set of springs and a stout stall converter should allow you to rev it out to 7K rpms(not suggested), but I would imagine you would see full boost a long time before that.
