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Originally Posted by RideZX6R
I did the math on this stuff myself and the cost was within 10% of one or the other...
Thing was... fueling... It's really the problem as far as cost goes - You have to address it one way or another.
You bolt on an ECS1500 for example and on an M6 car with no other mods you're somewhere in the 550-600whp range and basically besides doing methanol injection, you're out of fuel there, you need an LT4 pump ($800+) or injectors ($1000+ IIRC) (or both $$$) or just a cam to add the fuel lobe (cam kit is $1000) - or all 3...
If you do heads/cam you get the fuel lobe and you can make 500-550whp (especially on e85) assuming you're doing headers/intake and porting the im/tb - and those supporting mods+heads cam is about the same money as the blower (in parts anyway). And if you want to do any other power mods beyond that... you need fueling as well because, again, 550-600 is your limit.
I'm still not sure what I'm going to do... I do street driving mainly, but also a lot of road course stuff with my 1LE... and occasionally I do roll racing events (Shift Sector) for fun. So I want a linear powerband that won't upset the car as I apply throttle coming out of corners on track, but also would like big power for highway/roll race and street fun.
a big heads/cam pack will be powerful and predictable on track... but might drive kinda shitty on the street.
On the other hand, a blower will make the same power and be great for upgradeability later for highway stuff, but might be more violent at the track.
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Well researched and thought out.
It has me back at the GM hot cam and CNC heads, honestly. Not sure for track work if power above that will be effective out of turns.