I have been saving for a procharger for my cammed 6.2, but have been on the fence about getting a roots style. What made you dislike the procharger? My method of thinking is that my 6.2 already makes a lot of power off idle, which is why the procharger appeals to me. I live in the city and don't need boost all of the time. I've been looking for other people's experiences and challenges.
hmm well how to explain, back story. my total hands on experience with superchargers is about 3. my old D1 procharger at 15lbs, buddy had a small A trim vortech on a fox body, those were all late 90s early 2000s. now days another buddy has a 16 zo6. I've driven and raced with the roots, stock and then Magnuson upgrade.
from my experience the sounds of the centrifical all the time just whirling away under the hood got annoying even when I was young. the A trim only made 6lbs and vortech was better fit and quality back then and no intercooler or blow off made everything easier. but honestly a solid unit for it's time. my procharger, they were a fairly new company back then, the bracketery just wasn't great, mine was sat to make 15lbs, which was excessive at the time, tuning, technology and fuel made that not the smartest buy haha. 10 rib belt, big front mount intercooler, blow off valve making tons of noise driving around, trying to keep it cool, the air filter sat 2in off the header. it needed something all the time, it kinda turned into more than I could keep with at the time, ended up melting some pistons. totally my fault but it was a hassle. now fast forward to today's roots, with air to water intercoolers, nice packaging, internal bypass that just works well, and makes it so you don't have a ton of drag just driving around off boost. when not in the throttle I couldn't even tell it was on the car. I mean yeah, much newer car too, but after driving it, I feel like there's a reason gm didn't go turbo for boost and just went roots. better for daily driver type cars you don't want to pop the hood on all the time
granted, I'm totally out of the game these days, the new centrifugal for these trucks might be perfect, but in my limited experience, it would be hard for me to believe they are less intrusive than a roots without seeing it.
just don't buy a Edelbrock e-force roots kit, there seems to be something about them. atleast in the corvette application, lots of used ones pop up for sale. don't see any Magnuson kits used. they tend to keep those.
All that torque will safely find it’s way to the ground and you can flip the Yuke you’ve got now.
