These guys(ECS) test and race, they`re NOT hard parkers.
Supercharger costs???
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Here is the 2007 FIA GT3 championship trophy WON by Callaway Cars and then donated by Reeves to the NCM. Oh yeah, they won 2008 also. The last time an American Won FIA GT3 was Carroll Shelby in 1969. Not to mention Callaway having the speed record for the Sledgehammer for over a decade. Yeah, Callaway cars race, run, and are driven. Though you can't blame someone for also collecting them.
My C16 has been tracked and I drive it as frequently as I can and I do the same with my Twin Turbo.
Its about Speed, Style, Function, and Reliability all rolled up into the Callaway packaging.
-Luigi
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Here is the 2007 FIA GT3 championship trophy WON by Callaway Cars and then donated by Reeves to the NCM. Oh yeah, they won 2008 also. The last time an American Won FIA GT3 was Carroll Shelby in 1969. Not to mention Callaway having the speed record for the Sledgehammer for over a decade. Yeah, Callaway cars race, run, and are driven. Though you can't blame someone for also collecting them.
My C16 has been tracked and I drive it as frequently as I can and I do the same with my Twin Turbo.
Its about Speed, Style, Function, and Reliability all rolled up into the Callaway packaging.
-Luigi
$173,000 for a corvette?
Drifting
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With your Michael Jackson Gifs and all your talk about "nutswinging", hmmmm. We can do this all day. You haven't added one piece of beneficial information to this thread other than if you pay twice as much for a supercharger install you have the piece of mind that you won't have any problems, which is utter and complete BS. You have not stated you have any real life experience with Centrifugal Superchargers and up to this point you have posted nothing but conjecture and second hand accounts of what supposedly goes wrong all the time with everyone who has not installed a twin screw. Keep up the good work champ, keep building up that credibility.
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Also, please stop visiting my profile. ok. 
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Because you have added so much in all your intellectual posts. With your Michael Jackson Gifs and all your talk about "nutswinging", hmmmm. We can do this all day. You haven't added one piece of beneficial information to this thread other than if you pay twice as much for a supercharger install you have the piece of mind that you won't have any problems, which is utter and complete BS. You have not stated you have any real life experience with Centrifugal Superchargers and up to this point you have posted nothing but conjecture and second hand accounts of what supposedly goes wrong all the time with everyone who has not installed a twin screw. Keep up the good work champ, keep building up that credibility.
With your Michael Jackson Gifs and all your talk about "nutswinging", hmmmm. We can do this all day. You haven't added one piece of beneficial information to this thread other than if you pay twice as much for a supercharger install you have the piece of mind that you won't have any problems, which is utter and complete BS. You have not stated you have any real life experience with Centrifugal Superchargers and up to this point you have posted nothing but conjecture and second hand accounts of what supposedly goes wrong all the time with everyone who has not installed a twin screw. Keep up the good work champ, keep building up that credibility.
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St. Jude Donor '10
Right...every wanna be baller on CF.com claims he can buy a $200k car. The difference is the ones that actually DO vs the ones who talk about it.Funny thing...Your car with long tube headers(not emissions legal) doesnt make any more power than Luigi's car does and he does it with a positive displacement blower....oh yea..thru the stock manifolds and cats too.
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Not sure who would spend 200k on a corvette. I dont know about all of you but i know to me and alot of people the beauty of a corvette comes from getting super car looks and performance for a price that your average person who couldnt afford a 200k dollar car can afford. Bang for your buck in a sense. I could justify spending 45 grand on a car and taking it to ecs and having it supercharged for 8 grand. When i could not justify spending 200 grand on a corvette regardless of power specs, interior options or color packages