Kenne Bell on a Camaro? fab'd K member?
Kenne Bell prides themselves on a front drive setup. The rear inlet is just one more problem to have to overcome in its installation in an F Body. The Kenne Bell unit is, from all available media and tests, more efficient than both the Magnuson or Whipple. In tests against the Magnuson, the Kenne Belle blower ran half as hot (important considering it is a roots type) and had a lot wider boost band.
The Whipple LS1 has NO provision or plan for mounting in an Fbody or Vette. Sad because they have some REALLY cool dual blower setups.
I'm STILL having problems installing my Paxton Novi2000 in the 4th gen Camaro.
At any rate, it can be done with either setup but you have to be willing to do serious metal fabricating as well as have a means to trim the glass if necessary. Also since the kenne bell setup only has a vette drive, you'd also have to modify your drive to the vette style. After looking at all the complex turbo and F-2 setups with all the mods and time invested to make big power I dont believe that a screw is much more involved. I do understand that its much more intimidating.
if i had the money for this project i would twincharge my camaro. Whipple being fed by twin turbos. pretty sure nobody did that on a camaro yet.
I know i saw a picture of someone who put a whipple on a camaro on this board. It would have been about a year ago.
+1 on NOT cutting the windshield
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From all the pics on Whipple's site, It looks to be taller than 9.36". Plus, it is a rear inlet. If you cut into the bottom of the cowl vent area and drew air in from that point. You MIGHT get it to work. But it would drown in rain or even if you washed your car. The Whipple is also the more efficient blower for the job. But the installation makes it impractical for an Fbody. Also a possiblity to draw the air in from under the dash from the inside of the car. But it would be awful noisy. And you would have to roll with the windows down to prevent suffocating the induction.
so 7.5" from the top of block to the top of the blower? Was this an intercooled unit?
It was on a ford GT with a whipple conversion. I only measured the blower itself and the adapter plate. The intake with intercooler would be additional but I couldnt really get a relevant measurement since the modular and LS manifold are totally different. I'm betting another 4" for the manifold for an overall height of 11.5".
oh and whipple for several years now has been making all their own stuff. they dont have lysholm make them any more. the "new" whipple's out perform the old lysholm units.




