Little update.
so I ended up keeping the whipple 2.9 and installing it, added a Katech 103 throttle body and big gulp.
Install was easy, little extra time spent routing valve cover breather lines to the catch can and moving the intercooler line around for clearance. with the whipple intercooler connection it was easy to replace the hard aluminum pipe from the passenger side over to a rubber hose and rerouted it to mount my catch can.
using 3.5 pulley with the 8% overdrive lower, making 15-15.5 psi.
basically maxing the fuel system out on pump gas.
pretty much wrapped up the tune with Ted, finishing up a couple of minor tweaks.
definitely picked up some steam, car pulls hard all the way to red line. will get on the dyno again in a few weeks and see what the difference is from before.
Whine is real, even at idle you can here it whistling away.
quick idle video while I was bleeding air out of the coolant system.
https://youtu.be/xXxZfT0Qke8