Just a street car. Spirited on ramp runs, occasional wot runs, traffic, no track. 350-400hp. I've always been a fan of NA power but damn those stroker kits ain't cheap. Spend as much on that as buying a turbo or supercharger kit plus the engine build. Or on the flip side the install of the FI. I'd love a v8 in here but that's going to end up nearly twice as much and for that I could just buy a vette but I really do like this car and I just got the sound system installed and working how I want it plus it's paid for. To many choices!!!

 

The most fun my car ever was for driving around town and stuff was when I had 336whp with a procharger. I've since gone far beyond that and it's fun as hell, don't get me wrong, but it turns into illegal fun way too fast.

The centrifugal superchargers give the car a kind of v8 feel because of the way they build boost. And I got mine used for 2500 bucks. Kinda gets a bad wrap online, but I thought it was a good kit for what it was: a power adder, not a monster maker.

 

Most economical way to get 350 to 400 and have OEM reliability will be the procharger. I had mine on for 30k miles with minimal problems. It was pretty fun like hulk mentioned...You could go vortech supercharger or even the stillen roots and assuming you're tuned correctly than you can rest assured the engine will handle the extra power.

 

Imho vortech over procharger.

 

I looked at the stillen charger. It looks like you'd have to cut the hood to make it fit. But it would be fun having instant boost and power.

 

but i am a little biased

 

Me too. I don't get along with anything GM. It doesn't like me. So the "just buy a vette" and "LS swap" options wouldn't even be in the running to me. Lol.

 

And hence the dilemma. I either drop $7-10k in a car I only paid $10k for or I go and spend $15-18k (c5) and just buy the car I should have and wanted to buy before I bought the Z but that's going to require me convincing the wife to let me sell the Z and buy a vette which has been a losing battle thus far. Something about a vette being to much to handle but making the z as fast as one isn't a big deal?

 

the c5 z06 is 405 hp, and bases are about 345... so in reality there isnt a huge jump in hp from the z, although you can bump it up easily

 

A Z can also be too much to handle for some even with 250 or so HP\TQ! It's all about the driver..

 

Dreamers be dreaming

 

Well do you want to work on a car? Or just buy it and drive it? If ya just want something to drive go with the vette.

 

Looking at it from a horsepower to dollar standpoint, I could drop $7-10k into the Z and get to 350-400hp or sell the Z and take that plus the $7-10k and buy something that's already at 350-400hp.

 

LS swap, and a couple turbos. you'll still spend less than the cost of a vette, and you'd be hard pressed to find one that could run with you. Best of every world, get the awesome sound of a V8, blow off values, and you still get the looks of the Z. I don't regret a single dollar spent on my build.

 

It's clear you want a corvette (for some foolish reason). Buy one.

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I want an Aston Martin Vanquish. If you are going to dream then dream big :lol:

 

I've got my eye on the stillen kit, but I've heard that a lot of people don't like it. I've tried to find other options for a positive displacement blower but to no avail.

 

Don't waste your money on a positive displacement blower unless its a 2.5L+ blower you can make work.

 

Yeah, ive been kinda pipe dreaming about mounting a largeer capacity Whipple blower to a reworked stillen I/C. I guess if it can be done someone would have by mow :/

 

Anything can be done. Just depends on how big your wallet is.