Sweeeeet-

I got this e-mail from Sal this morning in regards to the new blower - I gave him a call and he said that I should have it by the end of the month. I will get the first one!!!!!! Soooo, I set up an installation date with my local installation shop for 1-15-02.... I really could use an extra 50-75 hp!!!!!

"This is Sal from Power Surge Performance. You are receiving this e-mail in reference to the high output blower kit that we have coming out. When we first mentioned the kit, we asked if any customers were willing to pre pay for the kit in advance, to help us obtain the needed components of the kits so we could ship when ready. You were one of those people who responded.

The kits will be ready to ship in the next few weeks. We have a kit coming next week, for us to "test fit" on our test truck, to see if there are any last minute fitment revisions that need to be made. After that, the kits will be ready to go.

We chose not to "accept" peoples money for the pre orders back when we first asked, since we wanted to wait until it was a little closer to the release date. Now we are asking all who responded, if they would still like to prepay. By doing so, you will get one of our blower kits in advance to the general public, as we will ship orders for the kits to those who have pre paid first.

Please respond and let us know if you do or do not wish to now pre order your kit. If you do want to order it now, please let us know what action to take as far as the transfer of money. The kits are still going to be the original price of $3500, and we are also willing to take as low as half the price of the kit, if you would rather pay a "deposit" instead of the entire amount. If you chose to do a deposit, you will still get your kit in the order you would
have gotten it if you pay the full amount.

Please let us know, so we can get you set up with an order. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Sal - Power Surge Performance
www.powersurgeperformance.net"

 

what can you tell us about the new blower
tanks
Don

 

Well gee, thanks for letting the cat out of the bag DAVE. J/K.

That e-mail was for the original people who responded to wanting one up front back when I first announced our new kit. I didn't want to publically announce the release of the kit until I at least had some nice pics to show, but since it's been brought up, I will go over most of the details...

Our kit uses an Eaton MP112 rear inlet blower. The Lightning stock, comes with an M112 top inlet blower. Since the inlet port takes away from the rotor surface area, the actual displacement of the stock Lightning blower is 91 cubic inches. By using a rear inlet M112, the blower in our kit is a true 112 cubic inches, about 23% more volume than stock. Not only does the Lightning unit effectively displace approx 91 c.i.d., it's not as efficient per inch of displacement due to the exposed rotors.

In order to make the rear inlet blower work, many hours of R&D have been spent developing a new intake to work with this blower. Supplied in the kit, is a new intake casting, that brings air to the rear of the blower. It locates the throttle body in the stock location, so there is no need for a different MAF/Filter set up. The new intake is also smoother on the inside and a larger bore than the stock one, allowing more flow into the blower. It locates the IAC and EGR in the stock locations, requiring no modifications to the truck.

Since the inlet comes around the pass side of the blower, the kit includes new steel intercooler lines for the coolant, with the same coating Ford uses.

Since the 99-00 and 01-02 blowers have a different bolt pattern, the kit comes with the proper bolt pattern adapter plate for your year, already installed on the blower.

This blower also uses a keyed shaft, so pulley changes are a snap. Just unbolt the pulley, and swap on a different one. Five minute job. The kit will include 3 different upper pulleys, so you can fine tune your boost level, even with a lower pulley.

The kit will be completely bolt on, and the average guy should be able to do it in 2-3 hours.

We have the prototype kit coming this week and will be doing a test fit install on our 01, checking the accuracy of the instruction manual, and the overall fit of the parts. Any changes that may need to be made will be taken care of at that point.

After that, the kits will be ready for sale. We expect to start shipping towards the end of December, which is only about 2-3 weeks longer than our original estimated release date of Dec 11, so we are happy about that.

If anyone has questions, feel free to ask .

 

before i change blowers i would (personly) put a procharger on. think about it yeah you would need a custom upper intake but i think the procharger would be more efficient, just my thought.
and think about the boost you could acheive

 

Slowcharger, Come on your killing me here. Put a T Trim on and call it a day. Your looking at 2500.00 in an upper intake PLUS a stand alone system " FAST, Gen 6 or 7, MOTEC" and countless hours of tuning. I Allready talked to Vortech about doing it but I don't have 8 to 10 thousand to put another blower on and make it work. I want to see this blower Sal has and see how much more power it's gonna put out. From my understanding it's old news but that's what I was told!

 

I am wondering whether Ford has contacted any of the tuners (i.e. PSP)? If this new blower with a good upper and lower pulley setup is good for a significant horse power increase, then why isn't Ford already implementing this? Maybe gen III?

And I am not asking this to be jerk---I really would like to know.

 

Sal,
Probably too early to ask, but any guesstimate as to price of the kit and expected HP increase?

 

There are a small handful of us 99-00 Lightning owners that have the intercooler leak (yeah right, just using Ford terminology), what about that? I am, pretty sure I have got an '01 blower, since it says Ford SVT on the front cover, but I never got my paper work from the job. Yeah, long story there.

 

Boozy, not really sure what you mean by "old news"??

eorielly, that's a great question, however I cannot publically say if we are working with Ford on anything.

PeterB, the price will be the original estimated $3500. The quality of the kit is top notch, and the finish of the parts will be superior to the stock parts. As for power, I don't want to put forth any incorrect data, but we estimate from all the development R&D that on a bone stock truck, just changing to the new blower should give about a 40-50hp increase at the wheels. On a truck with modifications, the power level will increase with the trucks level of performance. This blower has much more ability to produce power, and since it is more effiecent than the stock one, it will make even more power with increased boost levels.

Tundra, are you saying that Ford put a new blower on with the recall, or just that you think you have an 01 blower because yours said Ford SVT since new? The only way to put an 01 blower on a 99-00, is to replace the lower intake as well, since the bolt pattern is different. You most likely have an 00 blower with an SVT nose cone, as some late 00s did.

 

Sal,

This all sounds great man!!! Any chance of offering one that is Polished as well?? Other than that it sounds great!!!

One thing, Is it going to be more efficient or will it produce alot more boost than the stock? We still have a factory rod limit on Boost right??

 

Damn....3 extra upper pulleys with the new supercharger!!! I didn't even know that when I placed the order.

 

hey d_coburn, dont mean to sound like a jackass but in your sig you said that you have a NX NOS kit. NX is a brand and NOS is a brand. you should put NX nitrous kit.

btw
you live in san jose, i live in foster city, we should hook up sometime

 

Hey Sal,

Sounds really nice, someone actually has produced a bigger blower for our trucks that is available.

45-50 hp sounds good, Plus different size pulleys.

Way to go SAL.

 

Sal, What I ment by "old news" is that this is actually a old blower that is being modified for our trucks. Now this was told to me from someone at Eaton not naming names. Also, if this blower will work but wasn't put on from the factory couldn't there be a reason for that?

 

J15BIG (Joe?)-

Thanks.... My mistake - I actually had both the NX Express kit and the NOS kit from Holley. I must have been smoking crack when I updated my signature.... I actually decided to go with the NX Express kit, and APEX Motorsports just finished everything last week. You would not believe where they installed the nitrous solenoids - they are almost completely hidden!!! You really have to look closely to find them. As far as hooking up - sounds good to me. Shoot me an e-mail @ D_Coburn@msn.com.

Later,


Dave