Where kits ever produced?
http://www.zcodeperformance.com/products.html
Where kits ever produced?
http://www.zcodeperformance.com/products.html
As far as I know it was always kind of a pet project. Chris O used to post here pretty regularly but I haven't seen him post anything on here or Facebook about this kit in years.
'98 RC/SB - Hellcat/6 Speed Swapped
10.18@139.8mph
'00 AF RC R/T Under Construction!
'01 IB RC R/T Under Construction!
'99 SY CC R/T Sold
'00 AF RC R/T Sold
DRTC Member #1181
$3k for just the intake, tb and fuel rails?
Yeah ild say so.
I mean i get that start up fro casting intake is crazy expensive. and the demand is not really there to carry that start up cost out.
Tho it uses a base M1 intake so idk what the kit actually entails.
I was going to build an intake to use a mp90 but i ended up selling the blower and changing direction of the build.
[QUOTE=musky mike;535598] "My guess would be that's why it didn't go anywhere"
Considering you were getting the intake plus the blower, it wasn't an outlandish pricing. With any other type blower it would cost 5-6 grand.
For half the price, you were getting a blower that would do 6 lbs which didn't require an intercooler.
I'm wondering if ppl didn't bite because it wouldn't make their trucks fast enough.
I mean at the time, guys were getting their trucks into the 9's,10,s and 11,s and may have influenced trends at the time.
It was all certainly all cool stuff but a lot of these trucks were no longer "street" as much as they were "race".
This set up was a pretty good compromise in my mind if a person still wanted a "truck" DD.
[QUOTE=arro222;535601] I think 3k was just for the intake, TB and fuel rails...you had to provide the SC headunit (not sure, I wasn't around then). Too bad, Kenne Bell should have designed his system to replace the intake and have it sit in the middle of the engine, they would have been more efficient, compact and sold a bunch more than the funky design they put on the market.
Jim
RaceMagnum
Yeah it was a lot more than an intake, tb, and rails. I believe Chris' truck still has the setup on it and I think Justin Frederick on Facebook is running a partial kit (I could be wrong here).
'98 RC/SB - Hellcat/6 Speed Swapped
10.18@139.8mph
'00 AF RC R/T Under Construction!
'01 IB RC R/T Under Construction!
'99 SY CC R/T Sold
'00 AF RC R/T Sold
DRTC Member #1181
Well, making a design for it to set over the intake is how it should have been designed in the first place. It cool of him to redesign it that way. I guess in the end, he had to compete with performance and price point of other SC systems on the market. Too bad, I would have popped for one.
Jim
RaceMagnum
Jim
RaceMagnum
What about just cleaning out the bottom of a Kegger and cutting the top off to weld an aluminum plate for the base of the blower?
2000 Dakota, 5.9, 6lb Powerdyne, 13.33@106
Last edited by musky mike; 08-31-2021 at 11:11 PM.
@Musky Mike: Yup, figured it wasn't too difficult. The rest of it is the hard part!
2000 Dakota, 5.9, 6lb Powerdyne, 13.33@106
Things are usually easier said than done. LOL
I made the fuel rails and fitting kit for his prototype to his specifications. I may have even machined his intake, but I don't remember now. I wonder if he found that there was too much work and cost involved to make a decent profit, but I don't know for sure.
He had a well designed set up.