ATTN:5.0xplorer owners, would you like a cheeper supercharger?

[youl luz]

IM throwing around the idea of making a supercharger kit for all 5.0 explorers want to get a feel for how many people would be interested in it .. The price would be A LOT cheeper then EE's $3400...IM thinking around $2400-2600 range.this would be using a Kenne-Bell compressor. I have talked to them about doing something if enough people are interested...email me or reply to this thread if interested...

kit would include:
S/C, all brackets. Pulleys etc.
FMU and lines to hook it up
bypass valve if needed and cost is low.
boost a pump<<==this is a maybe
t-tex pump if needed..<== this would not use the boost a pump..

Looking to have around 8#'s of boost and close to 100+hp from it ..
IM going to do the kit on my own truck 1st to see if any problems will come up....

 

[CougarX]

Hey man, keep us posted, I've always wanted to put a supercharger on my 5.0 but I wanted a roots/screw type not a centrifigal. The only thing available is the EE one, but it cost way too much. 2400 for a roots blower would be nice.

 

[FrankRizzo]

I thought there was already a Kenne Bell 5.0 Explorer supercharger listed on thier website?


OOOOps. My bad. I called Kenne-Bell today. They don't make an Explorer kit.

 

[CougarX]

Anything ever come from this? I figured I'd bring this thread back to the top with all the talk about superchargers lately.

 

[Icepick]

Hello,

Looks like the plan is dead in the water eh? I have had this Idea of using a Eaton M112 from a newer Lightning... These blowers can be found used fairly cheap sometimes even with intercoolers, I dont think adapting one would be all that hard to do...
If I ever decide to do it I will let you all know...

Cya!
Dave P.

 

[explorersvt]

I am really intrested, please keep us posted.:fire:

 

[CobraXP]

I haven't dealt with the Eaton M112, but if it is like the M90 I just put on mine from EE, then you will need to fabricate basically 4 things:
- intake plenum for the charger to sit on that matches the GT-40 lower
- elbow to go from the rear of the charger to the throttle body
- front plate to mount idler pulley's to.
- getting a bypass valve, unless it comes with the charger.

The rest would not be too hard to do...

I had to change EE's setup because I have the 302 that they say "Our kit does not it" - Oh yes it does... they just didn't take the time to find out why it doesn't fit.

 

[Icepick]

Hey Cobra!

Thanks for the tip! That is kind of what I figured... My dad has a 01 Lightning so I have had a few looks at it and run the idea through my head... I have several friends that either work at a machine shop or own one so I think one of them could handle making the Eaton to GT-40 adapter plate which seem to me like the hardest part of the job... Anyways, How do you like you EE M90? I'm just now starting to hotrod my X and I have seriously thought about buying that kit because it would be fairly painless to install and I want to use a roots type blower... Does your X have the internal EGR that EE says won't work? Ya right! I read that and was Like WTF? I knew if mine had that there would be a way around it somehow... What did you have to do?

Thanks!
Dave P