Relatively high mileage 260 supercharger modification

[wheresmonkey]

Yeah lol Ive been hooked a while....

Its a good sign when there arnt many posts about engine problems. I suppose like its been suggested I could knock off a few horses just for peice of mind for the future. Still circa 260 for me at the moment is more than enough and with the thought of an extra 100 minimum to come its a win win.

[colintf]

good to see you made it over here from .Org

[wheresmonkey]

Thanks for the warm welcome colin

[Merl]

Welcome

Not to put you off but mine was one to blow when the supercharger was fitted but after further investigation at dreadnought it appeared mine had been subjected to a bad rebuild in it's life I was lucky and dreadnought were superb and covered me but now have people sign a disclaimer and don't put them in the rolling road. The only 2 i can recall blowing were both subject to user error ie over revving and both owners knew so yeah can't count them!
If you are fitting it yourself and know what you are doing then maybe check the engine or give it a rebuild or you can instal stronger rods and bottom end but if you are not planning on over revving it and to be honest the power fades at 5k so unless you plan on racing it there is really no point.

It's the gear box that limits the car to no more than 450 bhp.

Other than that run it for say over 5k miles drive it to 5k rpm and if it doesn't blow then it might be safe or give you more piece of mind.

Very worth doing though and you won't regret it one bit! We had some great fun on the Autobahn surprising a few Porsche drivers

If fitting yourself you will have to get the ecu remapped at jan speed or is it sport? Or someone similar.

You have the choice of a roush or Kenne bell but with both you need to get SGML the right bits as or engines are slightly different.

So yeah definitely worth it and the car ideally needs the extra power. Oh and at 80k the engine is just run in!

[wheresmonkey]

"Oh and at 80k the engine is just run in!" is nice to hear

[Coasting]

"Oh and at 80k the engine is just run in!" is nice to hear

Some reckon it needs at least 60k to loosen up fully!

[ksilver]

I reckon my engine was ran in in the 90's and at 120,000 runs better than it ever has.

If you have a scan through the American mustang forums there are guys putting blowers on cars with 120 - 140,000 on them, but you will see they blow a lot of engines probably by revving too high, they seem to rev 6,500+ regularly!