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Originally Posted by DisturbedSS
3 camaros - 3 different SCs here. Maggie, procharger and edelbrock. By far the best overall experience was the maggie. No issues, zero maintenance and instant power. How often do you DD at high RPM or redline?...well the 95% of the time I drive like a normal person the maggie felt like a beast. The procharger was disappointing honestly and unless I was mashing the pedal, stock felt just as fast at lower RPM. That and it was just plain inconvenient to change SC oil at a specialty shop across town, take an uber to work, take an uber back, pay 65 bucks and do this every 6k miles.
Maybe I got a bad Edelbrock setup, but had all kinds of lunging and heat soak issues. Was frustrating.
All my setups were stock with a custom tune. Longevity is important to me.
If you bought your camaro to drive it daily and decide to drop 9K on a SC with install, maggie will make that everyday drive a blast hands down. If you are the 2% thats only interested in racing, then none of what I say applies.
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Very fair point of view. I daily mine and like it much more than the screw set ups. With mine the IAT's were always high, and when sitting in traffic on the way home from work in the summer it would get warm enough to even pull power from the car until I got some fresh air flowing. The instant torque also had my whimsy street tires crying all the time. I was always peddling the car to get it to move fast on the street. With the centrifugal set up's Ive never had to deal with that and you can really put the power down (yes it still breaks lose, but it's manageable). With my CTS-V I had to put a chiller system on just to keep that ineffiecnt heat exchanger in check. I also don't have to mash the pedal to crack my valve and get boost to the engine, it feels really nice on the road when it's putting just a few pounds of boost, and it goes forward when I do this, no spinning. It's been my most fun daily car yet and very fast.
As for changing the oil, there is no way I would pay someone to change the oil in my blower. It takes literally less than two minutes and it's only 6oz of fluid. I open the cap, crack the fitting off on my drain line. It drains for maybe 20 seconds, put the cap on and empty a container of oil in it. Very simple and doesn't need done very often at all. I'm all for all of them, I enjoyed every one of my set ups and it was way better than stock. I just don't know about the drastic difference mentioned and in my opinion the screws are not as fun or street friendly all around.