old motorhead

If you've never had a blower car, you might also spend some time learning to control it. You don't get extra points (even from the car show crowd) for staying in the throttle when the back end gets loose. It's no fun not using the power. Just know what you're getting into. Don't show up on a youtube video running over a Mustang guy who is somehow behaving himself and keeping things straight

JasonCzerak

Now you have me confused, what exactly is there for a 1" socket on an ECS kit? Normally it's a 1/2" drive with in the arm for me.

Vids of anyone going under the car on the side of the highway to release the auto/spring tensioner would be nice to see

Unreal

Because I welded a 1" nut to end of tensioner to make it quick/easy

fisher auto

I've screwed up mine up, Good advise!

kazoo794

I am in the process of doing the same thing, waiting on my tax refund. I have a 2012 GS Centennial C6 with about 40k mi. I am searching for the best way to build the most HP (around 670hp if possible) with bolt on's while staying on a budget and maintaining reliability. Budget is $10k + or - $2k!

Unreal

Blower, headers, fuel system, meth, enjoy. Put the rest towards clutch/tires.

kazoo794

Thanks, will look for it and price it out, any particular brand or manufacture?

schpenxel

ECS blower setup, $5K
ARH headers, $2K
ECS stage 1 fuel system, $1K
Alky control meth, $600
Mantic 9000 twin clutch or Monster LT1-S or -SC clutch, $1500'ish
Tune $500

Assuming you do your own labor. Those are really rough numbers but you get the idea.. you can do quite a bit with that budget.

kazoo794

Doesn't sound to bad, how much do you think labor would be?

Unreal

$2500-3000ish for all of that IMO.

neverstop

I have a buddy on stock ls3 making 630whp with no headers and I think his only fuel system mod is a Boost a pump and meth kit. Only mods on the car literally are an A&A kit and alky control meth, ran stock clutch for 30k miles and finally got a mantic twin. Car sees a ton of abuse from 1/2 mile events to even occasional road racing track days.

I would also recommend the ECS stage 1 to be safe, and headers are good but not sure they are absolutely required for your power goals.

Tune is the single most important thing imo. Take it only to a shop that has built and tuned a supercharged vette before many times. I learned that lesson the hard way and nuked my first motor from a hack tuner with no idea what he was getting into.

Unreal

Yah headers can be skipped if they cross the line on budget, but would atleast punch the cats out then.

kazoo794

schpenxel

Or might could do factory Z06 parts for manifolds/cats/H or X pipe and I did Z06 bi mode axle back too.

The cats on those seem to hold up decently. I've been running them for a while now and cats are still holding up. I don't expect them to last forever but they've done good for me.

JasonCzerak

I have a pair of z06 NPP's for sale.