Little v6 into a mini Cobra

Cobra Love · 06-20-2000, 09:53 AM

Anyone have any information on Super chargers? Im new with all this car stuff. I know a supercharger increases about 30-50% horsepower but what is it? is it a new engine or an add-on or just a little chip? how much will this cost for me? I also want to consider turning this reg. mustang into a cobra only by increasing its horsepower to that of (around) of cobra's. Is it possible without changing the cylinders and not spending a huge ammount of money? and my fina question would be do i have to notify my insurence company with every horsepower increase? What happens if i dont tell them ?
sorry so long! Thank you for your time!
-Joe

Mr 5 0 · 06-20-2000, 04:10 PM

Joe:

A supercharger is basically an air pump that forces more air into the engine which allows for more fuel/air to be burned and that helps 'make' more HP. Oversimplified but that's the basic idea.
They bolt onto the engine and cost about $3,000. + a full days installation time and require some other parts to perform properly.

With enough money, you can make anything you want in a vehicle but it's usually not practical to do so. If all V-6's could be made to run like 4.6 Cobras without spending a lot of money, everyone would buy the 3.8 and the Cobra engines would collect dust.
You can add a lot of power to your V-6 with a supercharger, but it's obviously not cheap.

As for notifing the insurance company when you add performance parts: No, it's not necessary; but if the car was ever stolen ot trashed those parts won't be covered and if someone was to steal your supercharger (highly unlikely) it might not be covered by your auto insurance policy's comprehensive coverage as it isn't a 'factory' part and you never added it to the policy.

I strongly suggest you get a subscription to one of the Mustang magazines and try to get familiar with some of the aspects of performance cars. The ads alone are a wealth of information and a 2000 Ford Racing catalog ($5.) is a good learning tool as it has some nice parts for the V-6 and explains a lot of things about performance.

06-20-2000, 09:53 AM	#1
Cobra Love Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Niles, IL USA Posts: 3	Little v6 into a mini Cobra Anyone have any information on Super chargers? Im new with all this car stuff. I know a supercharger increases about 30-50% horsepower but what is it? is it a new engine or an add-on or just a little chip? how much will this cost for me? I also want to consider turning this reg. mustang into a cobra only by increasing its horsepower to that of (around) of cobra's. Is it possible without changing the cylinders and not spending a huge ammount of money? and my fina question would be do i have to notify my insurence company with every horsepower increase? What happens if i dont tell them ? sorry so long! Thank you for your time! -Joe

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06-20-2000, 04:10 PM	#2
Mr 5 0 Conservative Individualist Join Date: May 1997 Location: Wherever I need to be Posts: 7,487	Joe: A supercharger is basically an air pump that forces more air into the engine which allows for more fuel/air to be burned and that helps 'make' more HP. Oversimplified but that's the basic idea. They bolt onto the engine and cost about $3,000. + a full days installation time and require some other parts to perform properly. With enough money, you can make anything you want in a vehicle but it's usually not practical to do so. If all V-6's could be made to run like 4.6 Cobras without spending a lot of money, everyone would buy the 3.8 and the Cobra engines would collect dust. You can add a lot of power to your V-6 with a supercharger, but it's obviously not cheap. As for notifing the insurance company when you add performance parts: No, it's not necessary; but if the car was ever stolen ot trashed those parts won't be covered and if someone was to steal your supercharger (highly unlikely) it might not be covered by your auto insurance policy's comprehensive coverage as it isn't a 'factory' part and you never added it to the policy. I strongly suggest you get a subscription to one of the Mustang magazines and try to get familiar with some of the aspects of performance cars. The ads alone are a wealth of information and a 2000 Ford Racing catalog ($5.) is a good learning tool as it has some nice parts for the V-6 and explains a lot of things about performance.