Thread: HPE 750 Upgrade
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Old 01-11-2017, 10:37 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by hawk02 View Post
The description included with the video is a bit misleading. It says the mods on the car are an air intake, long tube headers, high-flow cats and tune. I thought my goodness 80 rwhp and 100 rwtq for an intake, headers and tune is awfully darn impressive. However, looking up the HPE750 package on the Hennessey website you'll find that it also includes a pulley upgrade.
I also had the same question & suspicion on the gain, until you mentioned the pulley.

I had recently talked to a Corvette tuner that upgrades the Z06 and he said, due to small S/C over spinning the S/C with change of pulley, causes more heat and lowers the life of S/C and the internal bearings of S/C. They had already seen problems with over spinning that S/C on the Z06. It's too bad GM didn't use a 2.3 or something like Whipple's 2.9.
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