supercharge a 4.3L?

i have a new to me 2000 1500 short box reg. cab with 150000km on it and was thinking of keeping the V6 and just putting a whipple supercharger or something like that on it... i was just wondering what you all had for input on this... of course all my friends think it's a great idea... and i do too but i'm not 100% sure if it's a good idea... i know i will have to do a trany upgrade when i put the supercharger in and that's about it... info please...

lee

is it safe to put a supercharger on an engin with 150K on it?

Agrees with Nigel.
I wouldn't supercharge an older engine. If your going to go that route make sure you build up the entire bottom end and built your engine take the extra abuse....

whipple doesnt make a supercharger for the full-size 4.3L V6's :confused:

Vortech makes them for the S-10 V6's. I think Procharger might too. Different setup though. Don't think they'll work on full-sizes.

for the money that you spend making your current engine strong enough and finding a s/c that will fit, you could have went and bought a built V8 to drop in its place and you will be much much happier with the performance. Just my .02

Jake

that's what i did :biggrin:

what about just doing some work to the V6 that's in the truck? can you make those produce good power? i would like to keep the front end nice and light and the 4.3L seems to work well but it bogs out... is the 4.8L that much heavier? as you can tell this is all sort of new to me (building a 4x4 that is:)

I agree w/ Jake. I would put the money into a new/newer V-8. If you still want to sc the 6 then you need to buid-up the internals