superchargers????

jeggers · Post by **jeggers** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:58 am

Ok i bought a travle trailer last week and loaded its about 4500 to 5000 lbs. took it to wisconsin on friday and got about 7mpg.

would a blower help much. the truck could realy use some more power. oh, and a silerado is not in the budget.

Any thought would be great. thanks

gocntry · Post by **gocntry** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:06 am

Supercharger - Turbocharger

How About a V8

jeff024 · Post by **jeff024** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:43 am

gears gears and more gears

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:09 pm

gocntry wrote:Supercharger - Turbocharger

How About a V8

Supercharger = $4400.
Turbo = $6000.
V8 swap = somewhere between the two, depending on what you do.

Any large boost in horsepower is almost sure to require a lot of other mods to support the increased power if you want everything to last (HJ, help me out here!). Seems to me you will quickly outspend what upgrading to a reasonably equipped Silverado is going to cost, considering the current "employee discount" prices I've seen.

Personally though, I'd hate to see another CC owner leave us! We've lost too many as it is.

Blaze One · Post by **Blaze One** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:20 pm

i really don't know much about this subject . But i believe that you would have to use High oct. pump gas with those FI units , and they don't really help milliage , just power .
I think gearing maybe a solution , and possibly a programer , and free up the flow of air ( exhaust/ induction etc .)
Try and make the engine more efficient .

bwenny247 · Post by **bwenny247** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:29 pm

proficient performance powerdyne supercharger
$3000 with free shipping
it says it's only applicable up to '02 but i don't know why it wouldn't work on your truck.
i've thought about this option too, the only question i have is how much extra boost will a supercharger deliver at low RPM range while travelling freeway or highway?????? i know at high RPM's you'll make 35-50% more power.......
anyone have any thoughts,

long url linked-HJ

bwenny247 · Post by **bwenny247** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:32 pm

another thing to consider is you are towing a 4000-5000 pound object and the 4.3's aren't known to make good gas millage anyways......might just be the nature of the beast under heavy load.
do you have the 3.73 gears or 3.42?

hey, i'm in the "elite" club now

yeah!

jeggers · Post by **jeggers** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:17 pm

jeff wrote:gears gears and more gears

I am at about 4000 rpms going up small hills, wont gearing it down make the rpms go up?

rusty wrote: Seems to me you will quickly outspend what upgrading to a reasonably equipped Silverado is going to cost, considering the current "employee discount" prices I've seen.

The gms prise is great i have a gm employee in the family and i have used it before. If i spent $4000 on a blower that would only scratch the negative equity in this rig. although the dealer has a 3500 crew 8' bed non duely with the durimax for $45000 gms about $35 or $36000.

blaze one wrote:I think gearing maybe a solution , and possibly a programer , and free up the flow of air ( exhaust/ induction etc .)
Try and make the engine more efficient .

I am not sure a programmer will help that much, will correcting the tire size in the computer help much? I have done the air box mod and i am not running a muffler(witch at 4000rpm is getting on my nerves)
bwenny247
I think powerdyne has one for the 03 04. i am running 3:73 gears.

So may be a hp3 would be a better option. I realy don't want to trade another crew cab this is my 4th s-10 and i have one blazer. So this is for the guy"s that have been here a while has any ony put a powerdyne system on there crew?????

snowsurfer · Post by **snowsurfer** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:46 am

I've had and have both HPP3 and Powerdyne SC. Both will help but not in conjunction with each other. Without a SC the HPP3 gave a moderate power increase, better shifting and adjusted for tire size and gear ratio's and also had a performance tune option. With the SC much more power increase and add LS1 edit and you're there.....Powerdyne does have a model for 03 and 04's and you can use some of the earlier kits but with some minor changes, fyi the earlier kits alittle cheaper. Some years comes with headers I believe 00 & 01 because of the air injection.
Just boils down to how much power you want and how much you willing to spend.

jeggers · Post by **jeggers** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:06 pm

bang head here x

1337vending · Post by **1337vending** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:47 pm

Jeggers, the HPP3 would correct your speedo and part throttle shift points with your bigger tires, but I don't think it would help too much with the lack of power. I agree, the 4.3 isn't much good at towing(190hp/250ft-lbs

) , especially if you don't have the 3.73 gears and especially with a 4000lb+ truck and 5000lb trailer attached. I'm assuming when you're at 4000rpm you're in 2nd gear with those big tires? The main thing i'd be worried about is the transmission temps when you're towing....

Also if you're looking to buy a HPP3 for the tire size correction, I have mine for sale since I'm using EfiLive on my truck now....

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