Chazzmania

Hi Guys,

So I have been trying to decide what route to go with the build on my 2016 Z51. I have been looking at the ECS, A&A, Procharger, and Whipple kits. I have two buddies that had the Procharger kits installed on their Grandsports. One has a serious build with drop in pistons, z06 injectors, and the other regular stuff. His car is making about 680whip and its a blast to drive. I am just trying to see what's the best right to go. I don't drive my car all the time maybe once or twice thru the week and maybe a few days on the weekend. I have also been interested in the Whipple's just curious of how much power I can pull out of them with support mods. Right now I have KooKs LT's with catless mid-pipe, MSD intake manifold, Halltech CAI, and a Katech TB. I want to make 700whp-800whp if possible. I live in Hawaii we currently only have 92 octane. Any recommendations would greatly be appreciated.

Joshinator99

C5-VERT

F1A-94 (headers, etc) myself with G1Pro Intake using Crawford Racing Holley 2.0 port injection system and a precision wastegate to control boost (want to go with a 3.8" pulley eventually and pull boost out up top when NOT running ethanol). Chris at Crawford Racing is incredible and responsible for tuning some of the fastest cars on here. We aren't even done with mine yet and it's doing 60 to 145 in 6.2 seconds which isn't half bad. Just got the car together a month ago no dyno numbers yet but soon!

Honestly just know going over 750 wheel or so especially if you are wanting to run ethanol you will need a good secondary low side. The stock fuel pump won't keep up. Then to hit bigger numbers it's either methanol or port injection I chose the latter and love it. Just a lot of moving parts getting the fuel system perfected that was by far the most complex part doing my personal build, putting on a procharger was a piece of cake. If I wasn't shooting for HUGE numbers and really just street driving 2300 is a nice choice OR heads/cam.

timmyZ06

I had a centri GS, didnt really enjoyed the centri power on the street. If you are not looking to race like crazy and doing 160 + highway pulls, PD blower are twice as much fun on the street!! I would do PD blow, N/A built and lastly centri supercharge A&A or ECS would be my VERY last choice!!

C5-VERT

Timmy what size centri did you run? Curious with your stock compression ratio it should have some nice torque over what the same setup on a lower compression Z would have. I welcomed the drop in torque way down low all it did was spin for me. Moving the torque and power up in the rpm band in my opinion made my Z much easier to launch and control down low. Course hard to control anything over 900+ hp once my F1A-94 comes in hard around 3200 it's on! Love it! But you are correct to each his own it TOTALLY depends on what YOU expect in torque and horsepower and when it comes in the rpm band.

Chazzmania

Thanks guys for the comments

DOUG @ ECS

Well that's literally a first. Centri's are so well suited for the Vettes, perfect driving manors while off boost, an animal on boost. I love roots blowers but only on heavy cars and trucks, not because we make a centri kit, because that's really my personal opinion. I was having dinner with one of our distributors this weekend at the PRI trade show and I think he summed it up best when he said "roots blowers make it feel fast, centri blowers actually makes it fast." Being that the ECS kit has the most TQ of any centri kit on the market it's really the best of both worlds. To each his own though.

samwint77

I notice that your bottom end is still stock. You'll be limited to about 600 whp until you build that. I choose to go with the maggy heartbeat 2300. Reason being they have less parasitic loss due to the internal bypass valve, and they provide more instant torque. For a daily driver I just think its better so you don't have to run way into the revs to enjoy the power. Everybody has what they like though. It took me about 8 months to finally make up my mind. My build will begin at the end of the month. Just waiting on the shop to clear some cars out. Also the whipples require additional fuel mods. The 2.9 L is a beast.

MRSUPRA

I recently bought a C6 Grand Sport with an ECS supercharger/headers/meth/cam 700rwhp. I was worried about the lack of low RPM torque and only making full boost at redline. Well, no worries anymore. This car is crazy responsive and a blast to drive, has so much power at 2K+ rpms that the car is hard to control in the first 3 gears. Much more low rpm torque than my twin turbo 5.0 mustang.. No regrets at all, and would choose a centri for future corvettes.