This is sweet man! It's a shame that KB doesn't show us and the fox guys a little love and design something like this their selves.
Don't want to burst any bubbles here................but me and a friend of mine have been running an air to water Kenne Bell on his 93' convertible 5.0 based 331 for over 5 years now. So far have run a best of 9.37 @ 148 mph in the 1/4 mile on 26X8.5 Hoosiers.
http://www.stangnet.com/mustang-forums/threads/fastest-5-0-pushrod-kenne-bell-mustang.850324/That's a kickass time on a 8.5" tire. Do you have any pics of the intercooler.
Kurt
I just finished reading the thread on your car and build it's definately the first build i know of but i think we are just the only 2 guys out there running air 2 water set ups. Your set up is strickly for race and i have mine set up for street and track use with my front mounted intercooler. I'm never going to go as far as you with my car it's fun the way it stands now. Funny when i look at your build we had some of the very same concepts and we used the same intercooler cores from a 03/04 cobra intake.Don't want to burst any bubbles here................but me and a friend of mine have been running an air to water Kenne Bell on his 93' convertible 5.0 based 331 for over 5 years now. So far have run a best of 9.37 @ 148 mph in the 1/4 mile on 26X8.5 Hoosiers.
I like the much cleaner look of you set-up. We used to run a front mounted intercooler for the water coming out of the A2W core when the car was mostly street driven, then we got more concerned with air charge temps when drag racing, so we added the water tank in the rear of the car so we could install ice on race day. Then we took off the front mount intercooler radiator and found that our air temps went down further because the pump used for circulating the the ice water now had less resistance overall without having to push the water forward through the intercooler radiator. We also used to have a conventional mounted t-body, but found the boost numbers went up when we made the inlet going into the supercharger shorter and shorter. During this process, the car became more of a drag only car and less and less of a street car. And while the car could still be driven on the street, it is not really practical. If we want to "street cruise" we hop into Walters 12 sec 08' Bullitt. That is more than fun enough for the street.I just finished reading the thread on your car and build it's definately the first build i know of but i think we are just the only 2 guys out there running air 2 water set ups. Your set up is strickly for race and i have mine set up for street and track use with my front mounted intercooler. I'm never going to go as far as you with my car it's fun the way it stands now. Funny when i look at your build we had some of the very same concepts and we used the same intercooler cores from a 03/04 cobra intake.
We also used to have a conventional mounted t-body, but found the boost numbers went up when we made the inlet going into the supercharger shorter and shorter.
Thank you!!!! If i wanted to i still have lots of room to move to make boost i'm running a 2.875 pulley making 13.5 lbs of boost but thats meens i'd need to spend a pile more money and i just finished the car and want to enjoy it the way it is. I'd need to change the block for a Dart block and put in larger injectors as i have 42lb in there now, maybe after a couple of years of enjoyment and then i'll pull it apart again.I like the much cleaner look of you set-up. We used to run a front mounted intercooler for the water coming out of the A2W core when the car was mostly street driven, then we got more concerned with air charge temps when drag racing, so we added the water tank in the rear of the car so we could install ice on race day. Then we took off the front mount intercooler radiator and found that our air temps went down further because the pump used for circulating the the ice water now had less resistance overall without having to push the water forward through the intercooler radiator. We also used to have a conventional mounted t-body, but found the boost numbers went up when we made the inlet going into the supercharger shorter and shorter. During this process, the car became more of a drag only car and less and less of a street car. And while the car could still be driven on the street, it is not really practical. If we want to "street cruise" we hop into Walters 12 sec 08' Bullitt. That is more than fun enough for the street.
I agree with you i would have definitely bought a complete set up from KB but i think all their R&D goes into the new stuff. You know when you can go out and buy a 3.8LC KB set up for your new Challeger or Mustang GT or even the Camaro and make almost 700hp at the wheels without cracking a single bolt on the motor that's impressive. When i look at how much work and money had to go into this project to make 505 at the tires i wouldn't do it again and i'm sure that's how KB looks at it too.KB needs to get on the ball and make some sort of intercooler for the 5.0 crowd. I would definitely be interested...
The SBF market was not a priority. Jim Bell's focus was the mod motors. He knew that was the future.Back then, KB just would not get the message that we wanted bigger blowers. LoL
The SBF market was not a priority. Jim Bell's focus was the mod motors. He knew that was the future.
Bwahaha! I have the same thing coming for that same TFS-R lower but for a milder setup. I am using a Roush TVS2300 going on top of it and on most likely a 347. For my DART 302 platform, eventually a 363 build with my brand new (2016 at the time) KB 2.6L I have been slowly fabbing up to use this on a ported Victor 5.0 EFI lower. If you look closely, it looks a lot like what they used on Double Trouble. Look at Page 5.Then there is this:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP2J548C0Y0
I am working at getting them to make a set up that bolts to my TFS R lower and will allow for my 4.2L Kenne Bell with their 2.5" I/C core sandwiched in between. I sent them a deposit on getting that done. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.
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