Preliminary S/C research...

[Romeo46LV8]

Simple question:

If you take my current GT (mods listed below, about 39K miles) + one Kenne Bell 9psi intercooled supercharger + two appropirate 'blower' cams + one helluva good tune =

1.) Disaster.
2.) A daily driveable monster.
3.) A monster that is living life on leased time.

Basically, the hard work of college are going to pay off and I may soon be able to finally afford the 'bigger and better' mods in the Mustang world. I don't want to replace everything, yet. I would certainly like to start with something big, increasing power by at least 100 HP or more. I am looking for a daily driver that is very reliable but also has some major brute force behind it. I know S/Cing will certainly shorten the life of all parts, but if well taken care of, could I get another 2 years or more out of everything?

What about my tranny? I'm luckily stuck with the T-45. I would eventually like to go the T-56 route, but for now (track maybe once a year, next to no street racing, and NO power shifting at all) would it be able to handle all the power of the above setup?

Thanks everyone!

 

[cap42]

I wouldn't do the cams with the KB 9psi kit as it is now bone stock 99+ GT's are usually putting down 400+ rwhp with cams and the mods you have you might be closer to the 450rwhp mark which is putting alot of strain on those stock rods.

There is no set rwhp# where the internals let go some people have run 400+ for thousands of miles and a few years while others have had problems with 280rwhp.

It depends on how good the tune is and how well you take care of it. Get a good safe conservative tune. Make sure not to run her too hard when it's hot and don't beat on it to bad.

You don't have a bad combo but I definetly would save the cams till you were building a forged shortblock

 

[WhiteDevil69]

I wouldn't do the cams with the KB 9psi kit as it is now bone stock 99+ GT's are usually putting down 400+ rwhp with cams and the mods you have you might be closer to the 450rwhp mark which is putting alot of strain on those stock rods.

There is no set rwhp# where the internals let go some people have run 400+ for thousands of miles and a few years while others have had problems with 280rwhp.

It depends on how good the tune is and how well you take care of it. Get a good safe conservative tune. Make sure not to run her too hard when it's hot and don't beat on it to bad.

You don't have a bad combo but I definetly would save the cams till you were building a forged shortblock

100% As for the tranny, it will take the same amount of abuse that your toothpicks for connecting rods will...all depends on the driver. Basicly, get the blower, then tranny, then forge that bottom end(those two can be reversed) and then start adding more power til you snap the axle, then go for that.. I honestly believe with a tune like Tim's, 420rwhp is perfectly safe and totally streetable, but if you drive like a moron then like he said, 280 is too much..

 

[SonicB]

i'd pass on the cam also with that s/c kit. the stock cam will work just fine.