I will put it this way. I have north of $20 grand in the car. I wouldn't bother spending $3500++ on a efficient Blower for the northstar. In this case I have seen a 4.6 DOHC cobra SC witht he blower off and it looked very similar. It's not a case of waiting til tax return , if I wanted to go and spend the money I would. But With technology the way it is these days Im not going to try and keep up with the neighbours. a NEw C6 Vette is capable of high 11's and it's dead nuts reliable. That is something you will never see with a fiero. The Tranny will always be a question unless you want to spend the big bucks and adapt one of those nifty VW drag trannies.. Then what do you have .. an ultra fast Fiero that cost you the same as a uSed Z06. At my current investment I could have had a C5 Vette and bolted ona lot of shit , I could have kept my M3 and added a turbo. But now that my project is winding down somewhat I want to do things the easy way> i ahve spent the money on the suspension , the brakes and the install. If I can install a SC and pickup 100hp on a stock motor, Im going to do it. Northstars are cheap as hell now. People bitch aboutthe cost of engine swaps , but I paid $2000 for my northstar ,when most of my friends are paying twice that for Honda engines.
Please, as little as I think of Aaron, you really did ask for this. Now that you listed your mods to the swap we all know that your running a comander 950. I didnt know that b4, and im sure many didnt.
I dont know shit about superchargers (or a lot of things I have never worked on, including your car) But wouldnt an efficient blower that didnt cause more heating of the intake charge than necessary be a better idea, I mean we always hear people including you bitching about fiero owners being cheap, it just seems to me that your gonna go throught the exorbenant effort to supercharge your n* and not wait till tax return time to pick the right unit. If you think this is as close to right as you can get for the n* say so and be done with my last comment. I dont wish to be hypocritical, so I wont go spending other peoples money on the internet, but please do the same and dont call out every other fiero owner for not spending the money, when you are saying here that you dont care about the inefficiency of the blower, just the fact that some used units are going for cheap on ebay.
I do believe that it will work, and work well. Its gonna cost a lot of money to do, $1500+ however, so good luck. Post pics of progress.
At the end of the day it's not a money issue , it's a bang for the buck issue. The Northstar is one of the best foundations for HP (if not the best) in Fieorland.. the problem is that the population of peopel that is trying to odify them is Nil in comparison to the 3.8SC crowd.
I have seen Northstars as low as $900 CDN out there that were in good shape. The motors are reliable as hell. I just wanted to try something different. In-efficient or not. If I found thatthe Cobra SC gave hand of God acceleration with no problems after a year of hard driving would I upgrade to a whipple?? Perhaps...Like anyone I get used to HP and after a while cars feel slow. But to go out on a bender and buy a $3500 blower that Im not even sure fits is rediclous. Keep in mind the blower upgrades for a cobra will bolt on. Im not doing any of this to be a pioneer , becasue god knows I sure as hell didn't pioneer the N* 5spd Swap , But I would like to try something different.
The heads and cams will undoubtedly make near the same power as the Blower , and probably put a lot less stress on the engine...but it's been done. I just wanted to try something new.
In starting this thread I wanted Opinions on the Cobra blower on a N* , any insight / ideas ect. I didn't want a laundry list of reasons why it wouldn't work. People who sit around formulating why things won't work don't get shit done , or live medicore lives...so fuck that.
I hope that gives you all some ideas as to my thought process.
I ordered the gaskets this morning , and I will get them tomorrow.
I have an extra setof heads and an intake , Im sure although time consuming I can figure something out.