If you want the "weekend warrior" blower then the 2.3 from either company will be fine and be about the same really. The thing is if you want to base a race car on a blower the 2300 tvs just isn't big enough to push some serious air.

 

I agree with that. The beauty of the 2.3 blowers is their simplicity. If you honestly want 4 digit power you need to be looking at the bigger options.

 

Haven't decided all the particulars yet, and not even sure the dude is gonna pull the trigger. If it happens, it'll be a 4 bolt stock block type deal......I'll be pushing for a 408 but this could very well be a stock bore/stroke 5.3 deal too (I know this is no help as thats about a 80 cubic inch swing). However, I'm almost positive this will be a race gas only type deal, 3 speed auto with a brake and hopefully a ready to rock weight of about 3850 lbs. Combo will be street driven.

Also, would likely be an 8 rib drive with a tensioner from Joe.

 

Pretty cool. Sounds like it'll be a ton of fun.

 

That could be fun, but just so you know, you can make the TVS HD tensioner work on a whipple, as well as the IW TVS stuff if you try hard enough


(that is mine)

 

Who did you source these 8 rib parts from?

 

I bought the IW kit used, so the crank, alt, and power steering pulley are IW parts along with the left idler. The other idler is a metco 100mm idler that is needed to clear the whipple bracket. The tensioner is the gates HD one the tvs guys use, and I drew some spacers so I could mount it to the whipple bracket. That particular blower pulley is custom made, but I made an adaptor that let's you mount a tvs pulley on a whipple with the right offset and everything so you can use off the shelf tvs pulleys. It's all in my build thread if you want to look.

 

Tmac is my recomendation for pulleys.

I would talk with leftcoast32 joe for coming up with a maggie setup.

The 1:1 drive newer style tvs blowers can move plenty of air to get a stout full weight truck without need for extreme cooling or crazy supporting mods. They will generally be the best plug and play setup, but yes you are really not going to get below a 3.x pulley which will ultimately require at an 8rib conversion and possibly OD crank pulley. There are ported snouts i think made for these now which help out quite a bit.

Now the 2300 JS is the most modular and could possibly get you close to 20psi on stock cube motor. You will want to swap the 1:1 rear drive 12 rib to a OD cog setup. I would also recomend the billet snout to help durect air to rotor pack. Now the big gotcha with a cog setup on a truck is the belts will fly off on heavily OD pulley combo, and when that happens it may require taking the blower assembly off like you do on-the tbss. Joe has made 1000hp on a 390 lsx with a setup like this so big power is capable. This is also the same setup i run on my ss sedan and with 6 rib and 3.4 pulley and no other mods on stock ls3 puts down 600whp on less than 10lbs of boost. If you are ordering request dual feed fuel rail and HD tensioner and the cog pulleys with extra cog belt in 1:2 setup.

I am sure there is more but too early to think haha.

 

Thanks for the info guys.