if your buddy isnt willing to spend $5k on the supercharger kit, he cant afford life with a modded car
on top of that, turbocharging a v6 mustang is building a copy of your neighbors house from scratch for 200k while your neighbors house is on the market for 150k
tell him to buy a v8 mustang, a modded v8 mustang would be even better bang for the buck because all the mods add less to the price then they would cost to add new
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I’m sure all this is not what your friend wants to hear, but it is very sound advise. If he does supercharge his car he will find a few things, He will not be happy with spending a lot of money to be as fast as a stock GT, He will end up spending much more then the original kit cost because of the parts that WILL break, and he will wish 5 years later that he never did it. I’m not gonna say he is an idiot for wanting to. When I was 17 I wanted to go Twin Turbo on my V6 Camaro, we have all been there, I instead bought a Big Block for it. Your friend now has the benefit I did not have, a bunch of people who have been there telling him some good advise. He is much better off just buying a car that has a V8 and if he is lucky he can find one with mods.
spending thousands of dollars to boost a v6 model of a v8 car is like having miracle surgical technology available to replace your severed leg with your own actual leg, but turning it down in favor of your own “custom” peg leg that you & your buddy built out of pvc tubing and duct tape and grease on the bottom
centrifugal chargers suck anyways if you want to wait for boost get a turbo. Roots or go home
Kind of what I would expect from a Joe’s grad
As for the OP sell the car, take the $2,500 and search for a good deal on a V8 mustang if he likes the stangs. Might have to take something with more miles or a little older but he would be much better off.
HAHA :purextc:
yeah, don’t do this.
He is in high school, he doesn’t need a turbo charged shit box. How do you have a 4 year old car with $2500 to blow in mods while still in high school anyway? Stupid rich kids.
also, not only will this not be fast and/or break, its resale will be completely destroyed. do not mod the car. if he wanted a fast car, he had the opportunity to get one before he bought a newish v6 auto mustang.
additionally, the fact that he couldn’t install the sc himself suggests he shouldn’t be owning a modded car as a dd.
sell it, buy a gt with the extra money…
Although, like 2 years ago people were piecing together Vortec supercharger kits for mustangs for like $1500, depending on which trim they were able/wanted to get. Its probably still on the mustang forums.
Although I’d still recommend what everyone else is saying (my earlier post)- buy a better platform to start on.
Don’t turn water into beer, when beer is readily available.
Nothing wrong with making your DD a little more peppy & responsive but this idea is definitely going too far.
Not worth the investment. Your buddy should just look for a 05+ GT.
uhhhhh… no? …really? roots or go home? :lol:
I like roots. I may be biased though.
There are MUCH better options. They don’t call eatons “heatons” for nothing. Efficiency of a twin screw >>>> roots, but thats neither here nor there, the OP wants to SC a v6 mustang, any power adder is going to be a fail.
spray would be a good option to add some kick and keep the cost down.
this is such a good analogy LOL
KB Mammoth or Whipple 3.4 crusher just aren’t in the budget this decade. I even had to put my suspension on hold this year. So for the time being, I like my roots.