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kenne bell supercharger company has listed on their website a new front snout for the gt supercharger that allows pullies as small as 2.5. they have dyno graphs and other data showing the incremental power made with various pully and computer reflashing. check it out, it looks very interesting.
www.kennebell.net
 
Good Find! Now this makes good "horse" sense...

Cal-Cuda,

VERY nice find!!!

I may stop by there soon and check it out! His dyno pulls appear to be very accurate and well executed. Heck, his baseline GT pulled 545 HP! That's right where it should be! Now this looks like good solid engineering. His statements make good engineering sense. His products in the past 20+ years have always been excellent. Now this is the first time I have seen a real GT performance product line, with facts, not B.S.

Just my two pennies worth.

Jay
 
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analogdesigner said:
Cal-Cuda,

VERY nice find!!!

I may stop by there soon and check it out! His dyno pulls appear to be very accurate and well executed. Heck, his baseline GT pulled 545 HP! That's right where it should be! Now this looks like good solid engineering. His statements make good engineering sense. His products in the past 20+ years have always been excellent. Now this is the first time I have seen a real GT performance product line, with facts, not B.S.

Just my two pennies worth.

Jay
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Please keep us posted, advise what he recommends for California's 91 Octane users... those of us that don't want to rely on race gas and boosters.
Thanks Jay.
 
Yes, keep it on 91

bony said:
Please keep us posted, advise what he recommends for California's 91 Octane users... those of us that don't want to rely on race gas and boosters.
Thanks Jay.
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Exactly, I agree! I hope that I can get up there this week. This will be determined by my customer's needs...

My old muscle car had 13.5:1 compression, which was nothing but a nightmare to operate on the street. Jay
 
analogdesigner said:
Exactly, I agree! I hope that I can get up there this week. This will be determined by my customer's needs...

My old muscle car had 13.5:1 compression, which was nothing but a nightmare to operate on the street. Jay
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Jay, let me know when you are going. I am trying to as well and two sets of questions would be better than one.
 
A word of warning, before you rush off to Kenne Bell. He has a reputation of grenading motors. Do yourselves all a favor and call Randy at Performance Associates (909) 592-4441. His shop has been doing Ford engines for over 50 years and has repaired many Kenne Bell motors. He has some very simple GT mods for exceptional horsepower gains, as well as a new blower head developed by Eaton and Magnuson for Ford that runs at 17 pounds of boost with no detonation issues on 91 octane. This guy is a Ford guru and has great passion for the GT, not out for a quick buck on unproven mods that produce unhappy customers.
 
Sounds like somebody is pulling a little to hard for randy, Kenne bell is the leading after market company supplying superchargers for ford cobras and ford lightning trucks(both of these ford products come stock with superchargers), go check other ford forums and see what others have to say about kenne bell. They do not have a rep for grenading engines and they provide lots of data to back up their hp numbers.
 
Kenne Bell in no way supports or sponsors this site, so I have no agenda when I say I think it's a stretch, at best, to say he has a rep for grenading engines.

The core of the Kenne Bell blower kit is produced by Autorotor, which along with Lysholm Tech, is a subsidiary of the Opcon group. Between Autorotor and Lysholm, they supply the OEM market with twin-screw blowers. Kenne Bell and Whipple are the two aftermarket companies for this type of blower using the cores from these companies. A pretty hefty, R&D intensive operation it would appear, much like the OEM-Aftermarket relationship between Eaton-Magnacharger.

The only real criticism I've heard of KB is they take an inordinately long time to bring products to market. This is speaking blowers only, because I am unfamiliar with any other work KB may do outside of this realm.
 
If anything the KBs are easier on a stock block since you can, generally speaking, run less boost for the same E/T (since the boost comes in faster.)

Of course, the other side of this is that the boost is near-constant so it is constantly putting the strain on the engine.
 
Vendor factory visits for GT owners?

Gentlemen:

I am getting nervous about any performance GT mods. Could we do this? I have been unable to contact KenneBell by phone, as it's always busy. I feel that a few of us should get together during an upcoming So. Cal. GT meet and discuss organizing some factory tours with these various "performance GT" vendors. I know enough about supercharging and engine technology so we will not get B.S.'ed by any of these guys. I am nervous about any engine mods unless I have an objective explanation as to a sound theory of operation.
 
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Contact number

Sorry, forgot my contact number: (949) 366-1211, Jay
 
bony said:
Please keep us posted, advise what he recommends for California's 91 Octane users... those of us that don't want to rely on race gas and boosters.
Thanks Jay.
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I tried for 30 min to get through on the phone, and when I finally got hold of them and told them I would like to order - their reply we: "We don't sell outside the US"

WTH?!?! In Denmark we get 98 octane pump fuel, so I was ready go mount the 2½ pulley and go, but I suppose they are not interested in too many customers


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one of 101 said:
WTH?!?! In Denmark we get 98 octane pump fuel, so I was ready go mount the 2½ pulley and go, but I suppose they are not interested in too many customers

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1o101,
euro fuel octane ratings don't compare 1:1 to US ratings. Careful, buddy

I see you chose a new avatar... cute, but I still like your old one too. (Gettinga tungsten next?) :wink
 
Nobody needs to pull for Performance Associates, their work and reputation speaks for itself. Ford and Shelby wouldnt be using them for R&D if they felt Kenne Bell or any of the other many tuners in Southern California could provide them with better service. I have been in Southern California all my life, involved continuously with some form of motorsports, the talk has always been if you want the real truth about the performance capabilities of your engine (especially Fords) talk to Randy.
 
If you've been in southern cal and associated with the race community all your life, where in the heck did you get the idea that kenne bell grenades engines as you blasted in your previous post, and did you see that the administrator of the form had to set you straight on kenne bell. I have no issues with you letting us know about Randys competency, we all need information about good car people. You just might want to be somewhat careful about throwing out potentially destructive coments about a business that generally has a good reputation.
 
Everyone provides opinions from their experiences and expertise on a said subject. There are a lot of vendors in the industry that produce great marketing campaigns for their services and products with little or no real R&D time to determine correct application and possible negative results.
I feel obligated as a member of this forum and an owner of a GT (not a spectator) to provide any and all information to my fellow members and owners that may benefit them in their decisions to modify this exceptional car. My suggestion has always been, regardless of subject, is to simply make a call.
The ultimate decision always resides with each owner and the risk they are willing to take.
 
What happened to all of the talk about modifying your GT engine and warranty issues when the pulley change was done by Whipple. It looks as though it's ok to modify if you use Kenne Bell?

Not that anyone would really be serious about changing a pulley on a supercharger from stock...
 
WhiteBlueGT said:
What happened to all of the talk about modifying your GT engine and warranty issues when the pulley change was done by Whipple. It looks as though it's ok to modify if you use Kenne Bell?

Not that anyone would really be serious about changing a pulley on a supercharger from stock...
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course not, did you go back to stock pulley??? :party :club :party



besides, with Whipple in our backyard, why go anywhere else? I asked Kenne Bell if they had a dealer close to Fresno and they replied quickly with a no.

Got to get over to Whipple.... I am getting a tiny little pulley..dats all :banana
 
I was tired of all these Ford guys calling me from Detroit wanting to come to California to look over my car to see if I had modified it ... i put the stock pulley back on and had the memory brainwashed back to it's prior life. I will never do anything that stupid again. :willy
 
Glad to see you got religion, Mr. Goodwrench will sleep well tonight :thumbsup
All is well on Walton Mountain, Goodnight Johnboy :lol :biggrin


Now, all you scoflaws that changed the air in their tires with the nitrogen sheeet, time to repent and get that old time religion... sing after me :willy :banana :willy
 
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