| Personal experience with Super Charging the 5.0 MN12 with the R & E Racing Kit |
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If you?re really interested in a Powerdyne or Vortech, R & E Racing has put together a kit for our cars. The Powerdyne goes for $3000 and the Vortech goes for $3500. The kit doesn't include a fuel system. I tried the Vortech system and it was crap...big time. To the point of throwing away brackets and modifying and building my own. No provisions for the air pump or it's plumbing so you have to come up with your own. Then no bypass system so you have to build that too. The blower suction is so restricted that it collapses beside doesn't come with a hard elbow, just that laundry dryer hose stuff. The idler pulley for the blower is so cheap it bends at less then 3500 rpms. As for the Powerdyne it has most of the same flaws. Then if you have anything larger than the SC front sway bar the air (smog) pump won't fit the bracket. If you get the Vortech the air pump won't fit inside the frame rail without moving the mounting holes. The air conditioning line rubs the blower pulley so you either cut the line and run it somewhere else or you modify the A/C condenser and radiator mounts to move them forward to clear the pulley. Then if you have a Griffin radiator you?re in for more fun...well I could go on but you get my point. I ended up building a kit using parts from theirs. And three weeks later it was running. Oh this was on John Priff's 93 and we are still battling the blower suction problem and bracket flex at high rpms. With the added support items needed for either of these kits it will cost you about $4200. This was not my first attempt at a SC either, I can't even count how many I have done anymore.
Lonnie
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