Well I'll put it this way, there are guys with the ford 4.6L engines that have put $3000 into their setups using a $300 stock blower. Those things go on lightning forums for under $500 ALL DAY. It's just all the fab work for ANY engine is a pain in the ***. I think even the stock 5.4L f-150 guys are spending over $2000 to get them to work properly.

Basically the blower is the cheap part, everything else is $$$

 

ya i shoulda read into it a lil more

 

No worries. I did the same thing when I first saw how cheap they went for. I told my friend that we can probably get him a lightning setup for about $1000. Then I read into it more and had to break the news to him that it's A LOT tougher than it seems. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

 

its better than the bearer of a bunch of "ya its easy, just do it" or "its cheap go for it".... then i get into and realize i shoulda just bought a radix LOL. thanks mark

 

Yeah when you think about all the down time of your truck, the hours you spend fabbing **** up. You could have just financed the blower, with time you spend making alot of the **** yourself, you could have just worked some extra hours at your job and paid for a kit that was designed for you truck. Either way there is work involved to pay for the setup. just my 2 pennies

 

ya that makes more sense. i def see a blower in the future... just not anytime soon haha... i should probably get the trans built first

 

I have one of those blowers, sitting here. Was going to turn into a hand dryer for the bath room. one day. Any way the cheapest way out would be Hang the unit off to the side and build duct work. Then your down time will be less because you can still drive the truck without having the blower part hooked up.
Just a thought, you will still have some nice coin in the set up but it would be different.

later

 

i actually just talked the the guy who built my long bars about that and he suggested it on the side... wat would be the advantage of that other than clearance, i wouldnt have to have the manifold off for as long?? he also said not to even run an intercooler??

 

Why the unhappy faces?

The blower hanging on the side, you do not have to build a one off intake. So you can work on just mounting it, then work on the ducting, inlet outlet etc. then work on the throttle cable stuff, it allow you to work with out being down. Then teh belt system etc, working in stages with no down time.
NO ic, ok just run a water meth set up.

Rick

 

is there a possiblity that i would be able to run my GM intake with this then if i do it that way? sorry for the stupid questions im not very rounded with SCs

what about a front mount intercooler setup if we run the ducting for it like you were saying?