Trkdrvr

Looking at A&A for my 2000, am I going to have to replace my stock hood?

Quickshift_C5

Nope, easily fits under the OEM hood.

Mike98SilVert

Trkdrvr

Cool A&A is willing to give me a deal full install, for 7k. Said it will give me right at 500 hp to. The rear tires.

Trkdrvr

lol told the wife I was ready for an upgrade, showed her pictures of a c6. $35k, think I can convince her a supercharger would be much less expensive than a new car, plus it's on SALE!!! And you know how girls are with a SALE PRICE!!!

~Josh

Plan on needing a clutch and some new rear tires soon.

Trkdrvr

Not big on burnouts, do like to hammer down getting on freeways. It's an automatic, man tells me there pretty bulletproof transmission, as long as I'm not drag racing hole shots it should be just fine.

~Josh

Saving this quote to ask you about it later.

Trkdrvr

What!!???

Danlb

My son put an A&A kit on my '00 coupe about 8 years ago when he owned it. A couple of years later he had CMS build his motor. A couple of years later a rebuilt trans and 3200 stall converter, he enjoyed the power and used up several sets of rear tires. One year later another A4 trans and then I got the car from him. I replaced the rear tires and they are still like new. I don't do burnouts but I do enjoy the burst of power on the on ramps!

RedRiderZR1

Put that kit on my car 8 years ago. Still working great today. My car is an manual but other than that the same setup. Don't do burnouts in mine either, doesn't mean the tires don't break loose. On ramps are fun for me too. Expect the rear to pitch out on you. That's a bit fun. As you will see, it will be a start to doing more mods after (add more boost)

Quickshift_C5

Good tires aren't for doing burnouts, they're for getting traction. It's definitely wise to run better tires with that much power, or you could end up like a lot of the other folks that have posted here with their boosted car wrapped around a tree.

skydiven4fun

Nope

Riteaidkid84

Right?

Forcedvert

I would not worry about trees its the transmission that is going to take a beating.
also what rear do you have? 273s suck, you're gonna want to upgrade that to 342s and a stall would be nice ......but you could always wait until trans goes boom and upgrade all at once.


The power and acceleration is addicting.

good luck

Quickshift_C5

Bah, too many people downplay tires. They spend $7,000 on a supercharger installation plus extras and then whine when they see the $350 tag on tires. Makes no sense. You'd think they would get a bit more attention, being the only thing connecting that monster to the road.

novasscnc

Will fit, I put one on, the 120 hp 8psi went from 300 rwp to 464

neutron82

it will fit but some of the bigger blowers you might have to cut some of the hood structure from the bottom side for clearance and if you get a really big blower you might need a hood but the standard kits that a&a sells you are good and if they are installing it you will have no issues, they are a great group of guys

grampi50

Maybe I'm just out of touch with the whole blower scene, but $7K seems high to me. How much is the blower itself? And installation doesn't seem like it would be that difficult or time consuming to do. $7K seems like a lot for a 150-200 hp increase, then again, 500RWHP would make for one bad *** C5!

skydiven4fun

Have to figure in not only the labor for installation but time for the dyno and tuning as well, And these guys are top notch from what I have heard & read, I live down south so I used Englandgreen, But that was not a bad thing by any means, Stephan and his guys are as good as they get.