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Originally Posted by ZL1 1LE
What's the cost of a ported blower vs a Magnuson / Whipple? Would the only benefit be that it appears stock when you lift the hood?
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899 to 1000.00 for blower porting and new 103mm is probably equivalent to a Tony mamo ported..
Just like the 5th gen people gonna spend loads of money on the 6 gen Zl1's blower only to figure out that over the 800 level is not practical..
I think 675 whp is fairly inexpensive and considered not a waste of money where most of the parts will and can be used over..
ATI balancer ( used on all blower even if you swap units ) 350 to 550
ATI Blower ring only 140 buck ( not sure if you can use 9.17 it maybe to much for a whipple or maggi ) with limited fuel systems for our cars.
Headers (you need them whether you swap blowers or not) 600 to 2300
Intake reuse even if you swap blower just change elbows 495 to 750
The problem is Blower Porting thats a good $1000 bucks you won't see back if you go a different direction
Head Porting it help with the new unit of course but just turn up the new blower another $800 to $1000 to save
Weapon X Heat Exchangers since your not over spinning the 1.7L can probably do with out them be nice to have and can definitely reuse.. but the stock ones probably will be more than fine on a large more efficient blower. $1300
Meth kit, install, and tune.. 1400 to 1600.00 The bigger blower on 93 probably will not need to make what the 1.7l zl1 blower did using it.
That's about 3 to $4000 in money to put towards a bigger blower then sale yours to a SS owner for 2k to 2500.. I think the whipple is 5k to 6k you already have the lower balancer maybe save more of a kit..
just food for thought..
Good thing is if your handy with a wrench you can add 100 to 120 hp for $2100 and that includes the tune.. And everything but the blower ring and 100 to 200 for a retune is transferable over to the new blower.