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Its been a long time coming, but my supercharged Corvette dream has finally come true!
Here it is, enjoy:
It runs great, no blower surge, and its scary fast! There's nothing quite like the look of a big chrome blower sticking out of the hood, I cant wait to bring it to the local car show that happens every Thursday by me. I'm on cloud nine right now, I've always wanted a supercharged big block 'Vette ever since I was a kid and now my dream has finally come true!
Last edited by TheGreek!; May 19, 2019 at 08:45 PM.
2020 Corvette of the Year Finalist (performance mods)
2019 C3 of Year Winner (performance mods)
2016 C3 of Year Finalist
AWWW MAAANN!!!!! THATS FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!!!! I've always wanted a few differnent motor setups myself, tri power, a 4 weber intake setup or Inglese injection setup ( love the stacks), and a blower.
Glad your dream came true. Hows the view out of the windshield, I never thought about it but someone once told me you loose sight of most of the passengers side front end. I had a big rear view mirror in my 68 that had a rear view camera and maps built into it and I couldnt handle it. Can you post a pic of the view out your windshield please......
Love the Mickey Thompson valve covers too. I currently have those on my 327. I have about 5 different valve cover setups that I have started to rotate through on my motor.
Last edited by Rescue Rogers; May 20, 2019 at 07:59 AM.
By the way, the engine is a .030 over 454 with a 4 bolt main block, Eagle forged crankshaft, Eagle H-beam rods, speed pro forged blower pistons, Lunati hydraulic roller cam, big port open chamber heads from a 502, MSD distributor, and the blower is a weiand 8-71 with two 650 double pumper Holleys.
How did you get the hole for the blower cut so perfectly and in the right spot? And I agree on videos!!!
I laid the hood onto a large piece of cardboard and traced the outline of the hood onto it and made a cardboard copy of the hood. Then I took some basic measurements of where the blower is at in relation to the edges of the hood, cut the hole for the blower in the cardboard until it fit right, and then I laid the cardboard copy of the hood with the blower hole in it onto the real hood and traced the hole for the blower on it. I put several layers of painters tape on the hood where the hole was to be cut, traced the outline of the hole onto the painters tape, and then cut it out with a jigsaw. The painters tape kept the paint on the hood from being marred by the base of the jigsaw and kept the paint on the edge of the hole from chipping. I used a fine tooth metal cutting blade to cut the hole with. After that, I cleaned up the cut with some sandpaper.
Last edited by TheGreek!; May 20, 2019 at 01:16 PM.
You must have to remove the air cleaner to open the hood. That is an excellent job at cutting the hole
Yes, I have to remove the rear air cleaner to open the hood otherwise I would have had to make the rear of the hole so long that there wouldn't be much hood left behind the blower. It would have looked like **** and I didn't want to do that.
Supercharged dream come true!
