Whipple??
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Whipple??
Have an 08 z06, I am looking at putting a whipple sc on my car. The motor is fully built with forged internals. I am wanting to do a 3.3 but can not find a c6 z06 that has it. Do they sell an option on the 3.3 for z06? Or can I only go with the 2.9 whipple for my car?
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3.3 and 4.0 liter whipples are great marine blowers and used quite a bit in boats, be a tight fit in a car with a decent size intercooler, the largest I have seen is 2.9 as well!
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I'm pretty sure the 2.9 is the only option from Whipple at this point. You might get them to custom make a 4L one off kit, but at that $ level I'd rather go with twins or a F2 etc.
The 2.9 can probably spin up to around 21 psi, if I were spinning it that hard I would want a spray bar, an ice tank or just straight nitrous. The IATs with this thing can get up there in Louisiana heat from my experience.
Side note I'm selling my complete kit and a hood to fit it if you're interested send me a pm about it or any questions in general you may have about going with a Whipple. I know there are only a handful of z06s with one, 2 maybe 3 of us on the forums here.
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there was a guy on the zl1 boards who fit a 4.0L in the 2.9 lower housing if i remember correctly. i dont remeber exactly what he did but if you search around over there you may be able to find it. made some good power
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In a Corvette yes - but my FGT has a bolt-on 4 liter Whipple blower in it, now available in a 4.5 and you can bolt it in to the new 5.8 Mustang as well.
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. Can you imagine a Vette with a 4.5L?
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Not really. The heat exchanger/etc will still heat soak. Now build a nice 3-5 gallon ice tank in the trunk, run lines up from the heat exchanger/etc and put a bag of ice in it after every pull and you can do it.
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might not be as bad as you think as long as the heat exchanger is decent, on back to back runs on my tvs 2300 we were staying right around 100-110. thats just an upgraded heat ex on stock intercoolers and stock coolant reserviour
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You are still in the reasonable zone of the blower. Once you start overspinning the hell out them to try to hit 800rwhp it becomes a flame thrower. Upgrading the HE, fans, reservoir etc all help but IATs are still an issue with the PD blowers at that level.
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we will find out were going to a smaller upper and spinning it to 23k this week Nick the tuner seems confident it wont raise much