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Mar 14, 2016 | 02:54 PM

rennertristan

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Supercharger or turbo

Wondering what the best supercharger or turbo kit for my stock 1986 corvette. I plan on getting a full kit so whatever I need to support it.

Mar 14, 2016 | 03:00 PM

dizwiz24

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Originally Posted by rennertristan

Wondering what the best supercharger or turbo kit for my stock 1986 corvette. I plan on getting a full kit so whatever I need to support it.

theres no such thing as a turbocharger kit for our cars so you are on your own with custom fab work (which is certainly possible).

the supercharger kits are out there but have their 'warts' that were never taken care of.

talk to a good speed shop if you want turbo

talk to greg carroll at blowerworks if you want to go superchRger. he knows how to get around the belt slip issues of the commercial supercharger kits

Mar 14, 2016 | 03:17 PM

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Wondering what the best supercharger or turbo kit for my stock 1986 corvette. I plan on getting a full kit so whatever I need to support it.

you have a post in the General section. about a Cam & Tune. Now your looking for forced induction. you will. 1st need to line-up a known tuner.

Cam and tune
I want to get a new cam for my 1986 corvette but people said I need to re-tune the ecm. Not sure how to do all that because I'm new to all that so if anyone has any advice that would be great or anyone in the San Diego area that know that could show me how for some money I would be willing to do that also.

Jeesh and thisVV

Ok so if I got a decent cam what kind of tune do you mean? Like would I have to get a new chip or what? New to corvettes just got mine last weekend and want mine to be loud as ****

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Mar 14, 2016 | 03:47 PM

DanielRicany

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I'd recommend a supercharger. They appear to be easier to install on these cars than turbos. Especially because the space between the exhaust manifolds and the frame is next to nothing.

Mar 14, 2016 | 04:18 PM

rennertristan

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What kind of supercharger?

Mar 14, 2016 | 05:20 PM

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Watch the latest motortrend building their 78 Camaro. I think they have less than 10k in the car and have a driving 650+hp car. 5.3 with ebay Silverado turbo kit. Not saying it's the best, but that single turbo on the 5.3 is way out performing a supercharger. The turbo gave them another 300-350 hp I think. COMPLETE kit was $2,000+. Depends on your car and how you will mod it or hack it.