Turbo or supercharger
First of all, 91K is a high mileage motor to super or turbo charge. I would suggest you first do a total rebuild on it and beef up the parts that need it for these applications. Those are ARP headbolts and studs, all highest quality head gaskets specific to turbos or superchargers, and of course do a search for the setup you can get and ask questions about what they also had to do for a tune for the OBC as well because that will have to be done. I highly suggest a supercharger kit either clean used one or new as it'll be WAY easier to bolt on and work better in all normal driving than a turbo.
The drawback of a turbo is turbo lag. an SC doesn't have any lag and is POWER right off idle if set up porperly and doesn't run as hot of underhood temps as a turbo. Plus, you might even be able to bolt on a SC kit to that motor you have and as long as you aren't always in it with the right foot, it MAY even last till you can rebuild it or get a crate motor. BTW with either, you may have to run thicker head gaskets or at least very low boost to keep them from grenading the motor since the stock pistons are too high a compression ratio for the SC or Turbo.
And of course, if you live where you don't need a smog check, you can build an all motor motor that will kick butt on a TC or SC motor that is stock other than the asperation.
The drawback of a turbo is turbo lag. an SC doesn't have any lag and is POWER right off idle if set up porperly and doesn't run as hot of underhood temps as a turbo. Plus, you might even be able to bolt on a SC kit to that motor you have and as long as you aren't always in it with the right foot, it MAY even last till you can rebuild it or get a crate motor. BTW with either, you may have to run thicker head gaskets or at least very low boost to keep them from grenading the motor since the stock pistons are too high a compression ratio for the SC or Turbo.
And of course, if you live where you don't need a smog check, you can build an all motor motor that will kick butt on a TC or SC motor that is stock other than the asperation.
Most Magnum SCs do NOT produce boost right off idle, only positive displacement blowers (Kenne Bell is only PD Magnum blower) make boost off idle. Cetrifugal SCs make boost in proportion to RPM, therefore max boost is not reached until max RPM. I can make 10PSI by 2400RPM.
And they're not high compression motors. Properly tuned, they'll take about 10PSI on the stock headgaskets.
The biggest problem is using the stock junk PCM (even with SCT) with boost. It's just not meant for it and doesn't have a fuel table resolution nor the correct closed loop/open loop switching to handle it well.
Last edited by Hahns5.2; Feb 21, 2013 at 07:21 PM.


