I am looking for a supercharger for my 1994 lt1 camaro z28. Im not exactly what I should be looking for though. My friends have been telling me to go with the procharger, but its a bit pricey at $5500.

Is there anybody out there with a bit of advise for a first time buyer?
Would I have to do more airflow or change any other parts due to more HP or torque?

The car I have now has a SLP loudmouth cat back, and SLP air intake. The rest is stock.

 

You might keep an eye on the forums here, or ebay. On a stock motor it's not advisable to run more than 5 lbs. Either a Vortech S-Trim or a Procharger P-1SC are good for 5 lbs. plus. Superchargers cause drivers to get hard on their cars which cause premature failure of internal parts such as cranks, rods, and pistons. It is suggested that you run a forged bottom end due to the fact that once you feel the power from a forced induction car all you want to do from that point on is go faster and make more boost. I am by no means an expert on this subject, as I am just finishing up my first FI car. I am just passing on what I have learned from multiple threads on this forum.

 

Most guys break the stock pistons after a while, it's just a fact of life with these engines unless you stay with real low boost, which is hard to do and of questionable value. A good tune helps it live. The kit needs to add extra fuel capability, and usually an ignition amplifier with boost referenced timing retard. Usually, you can get into a good Vortech kit for under mid $3k, I didn't realise the Pro kit was $5500 - that seems too high. Kits for the later cars were higher cause they had fuel injectors, programming, etc. but for LT1 cars were usually mid-low 3k.

 

Here's a guy seling a procharger kit for $2000 complete.

https://www.camaroz28.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=548640

 

I am thinking about selling my paxton for about $1500. I am pretty sure it would work fine on a stock motor.

 

There are some good deals if you look for them for superchargers out there as listed above by a few.

Personally, I think Prochargers are the best quality wise, and they seem to be the most popular (on this board and others). However Vortecs superchargers are still really good as well, and even though not everyone will agree, I have seen a few people with success on their Powerdyne units as well.

Buying a supercharger wisely also means you know what you are getting into with the rest of the setup of your car. If you put any significant amount of boost through your nearly stock motor, you will be looking for a motor rebuild in the near future. And then if you can't run much boost, even if you get a good deal on the blower, then you aren't really going to be making that much power anyways and it isn't really cost effective.

To make a long story short that I seem to be telling over and over again on this board to those who want to go boosted with a stock motor, or without having a lot of money to spend, you are better off going with a good heads cam and intake setup for the money to make some decent power. If boosted is indeed the way you want to go, to do it right and have a car and a motor that will take the power, you will be looking at spending a total of anywhere from $14,000 to $20,000 depending on the quality parts you will need. Try doing a search, and you will find lots of info supporting this.

 

Call911 is right. It is easy to put one on but to do it right you have to spend some money and have some for the day you need to replace parts because they will break.

 

8lbs and less than a month and my pistons melted

Stay low boost if you don't want to rebuild soon. My procharger #'s are in my sig. The kit should run you around $3200 for the P1SC. I paid $800 for the install, but if he did it again he would charge more, it's a lot of work. Good luck!


That motor and car would be BULLETPROOF. That is a lot to invest, but to each his own.

 

Wohoaw! Melted?!?! was that because of the goofy-*** pistons on the LT1?

 

Ya, stock pistons. It was tuned properly too.

 

$20 says I could break it.

 

The motor itself can cost $10,000 if you have it built professionally with top end parts like Lunati, Oliver, and AFR engraved on the side of some of the parts. Then there are a lot of other things needed to make the car hold the power like the tranny/clutch, driveshaft, rear end. Not to mention all your supporting mods of fuel system (bigger injectors, dual fuel pump, fuel pressure regulator), intercooler and or methanol injection, ignition, dyno tune. And none of this even includes the thousands the supercharger will cost. If anything, those figures are on the cheep side.

If you want to go fast, and retain reliability with a boosted F-body, it is definatly not cheep.