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Do I need to upgrade the headers if I do a super charger? My car is a cruiser no track or racing.
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dont have to. These cars will respond great to just having a blower at low boost. You'll make more power with headers, obviously, but there is no "need" to install them.

honest, if I was buying this car again today, I'd just get a whipple and a resonator delete and be done with power mods.
 

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dont have to. These cars will respond great to just having a blower at low boost. You'll make more power with headers, obviously, but there is no "need" to install them.

honest, if I was buying this car again today, I'd just get a whipple and a resonator delete and be done with power mods.
Hi, curious what supercharger you have installed? I see you are in the Bay Area, guessing you have to pass emissions testing like me and I am trying to figure out what to install.
 

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Hi, curious what supercharger you have installed? I see you are in the Bay Area, guessing you have to pass emissions testing like me and I am trying to figure out what to install.
I dont have one installed. I have the Airaid cold air setup with the Bama off the shelf tune, from American Muscle. That's not technically smog legal, but it's super easy to switch out and return to stock when the time comes.

However, as I said knowing what I know now, I would have probably just done a whipple or roush blower (both are carb legal) at low boost and maybe a resonator delete Xpipe for some better sound. I spent like $800 on the cold air/tune, and that would have been about 10% of what I needed to get the blower set up going. :doh:
 

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dont have to. These cars will respond great to just having a blower at low boost. You'll make more power with headers, obviously, but there is no "need" to install them.

honest, if I was buying this car again today, I'd just get a whipple and a resonator delete and be done with power mods.
I appreciate this comment, I'm undecided whether I mod all these different bits or just go the Ford Performance blower kit with warranty and install a res delete or cat back for some noise.

I'm kinda leaning to the latter :-)
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