Its low maintenance. I believe instructions said change out oil every 75k - 100k miles. Besides that, just change out spark plugs and regular motor oil changes.
Inthehighdesert, I agree for most tracks. FI or power adder is not needed. But, I have been on a few super speedways (Daytona, Charlotte) and the FI would help on those tracks.
Would you mind messaging me RPG Tunings contact info? I tried looking them up and could only find an RPG Off-road in SoCal but did find and RPG in Colorado.Will @ RPG tuning in California did the build .
He has previously built me a predator type short block for my Hellion car.
Shipping the motor out and getting it back was a pain due to no fault of his (it’s just a pain shipping engines ) but Will is extraordinary in his customer service.
He also has a ton of experience building 5.2/flat pane or cross plane engines. I got a bit of deal as a repeat customer but his prices are very reasonable.
Thank you for your input and point of view. This post is to give us more information on the reliability of the whipple. There are people who want to bolt one on but have concerns. Hopefully this will help answer those reliability related questions .
It's not really about that and more about the primary and secondary shaking forces that are already high NA, made significantly worse with boost. My advice to anyone with a GT350 is to not touch the engine or anything directly mounted on the engine after seeing the results of the engines running on the dyno during development/validation.
I also have 2019 gt350 running gen 5 whipple with whipple tune make 842rwhp and have 4000 miles on it with the supercharger. No issues so far. Definitely not afraid of pushing hard! Also upgraded to 10 rib belt system.I'm running 2019 GT350 5.2 Whipple and currently have 3800 miles without any issues. I will avrage about 10k miles a year. This is a daily driver and probably run it a little hard. I'm just curious if anyone is having any reliability issues.
what supporting mods?
Just installed everything for stage 2 kit from whipple along with 10 rib belt upgrade, other than that stock. Got lucky buying a '19 that had the gen 2 upgrades from factory
no oil pump, crank gears?
You definitely should have upgraded your OPG and Crank Sprocket at a bare minimum for piece of mind while you were taking her under the knife anyway. Ford Performance offers billet OPG's for our GT350, so its safe to assume it hasn't been upgraded from the factory for any of the model years. It's relatively cheap insurance for your high horsepower investment. It's not too late, but will cost you a few extra hundred on labor due to the blower pieces being in the way. I personally would still get it done.....good luck
