BuffaloZone said:
How many people have made nasty postings about the "POS intake" (etc...) in the past? I wonder?
.....I know there's a point in there somewhere in reference to my statement of you not giving the OEM intake much credit.....but I'm sorry I've failed to find it?
BuffaloZone said:
That's the whole point, duh - add a world-class SC and clean up the OEM mess at the same time. It's a win-win.
You're under the impression that we all don't like the look of the stock intake? Plenty of "world class" S/C's on the market the do it just as well, for less than the KB and still retain the factory parts. You could always paint the stock lower intake silver if it made you feel any better.
BuffaloZone said:
You're pretending that the 1.7 is the only KB blower that you can buy for the Mustang? Or are you pretending that other bigger KB blowers still use the OEM plastic intake when you install the blower?
I'm not pretending anything?
The blowers you were just drooling over were 1.7's, so that's the example I used. Sure, you can go with the 2.2L kit if you'd like, but for a guy wanting in the 350-500rwhp range, the 2.2L is a lot of overkill. Oh...and don't forget the $10,000.00 you're going to have into it before all is said and done. For that price you could run any of the popular centies, with an aftermarket aluminum manifold if that's all you care about seeing with a blower package and still come out thousands less in price.
BuffaloZone said:
Kenne Bell decided to shy away from using a plastic manifold. I like that.
Before this gets any further, lets get one thing strait. Kenne Bell didn't decide to replace the plastic manifold because it was inferior. Kenne Bell had no choice but to design their own manifold because for one, their kit wouldn't work with the OEM and for another they needed to use the aluminum manifold because their big 40lb twin crew would obliterate any plastic manifold they designed with the constant strain, stress and torqueing of it being under load all of the time. It wasn't a quality issue that made them go with the aluminum unit, it was a durability issue because a positive displacement blower mounted on top of anything else would be a disaster waiting to happen. Trust me, if Kenne Bell could have gotten away with running a less prone to heat soak, smoother composite lower over a rough cast aluminum one, they would have! Name one company that builds a plastic lower for any positive displacement blower and I'll eat my hat!
A Centrifugal supercharger doesn't place any stress at all on the lower intake manifold other than pressurization of the runners....and they've been shown to stand up just fine to that. So why would Centi designers add to the price of their kit by building another manifold, made of a heavier, more prone to heat soak aluminum casting when the stock unit flows more than enough air for all but the most serious of engines and saves them thousands and thousands in manufacturing fee's (not to mention the additional cost they would need to tack on to their product) at the same time? There are plenty of aftermarket manifolds out there to choose from that flow far more air than Kenne Bells piece, so if someone wanted to go that route, the option is always open. But the nicest part about that is, that’ it’s always an option. A centi owner isn’t forced to buy an unnecessary manifold that they don’t need, if they don’t want it….keeping the cost low and smile on their face!
The usual consensus is, if it isn't what they, or their pals are running, it must be crap! The funny thing is, is that I’m not running a Twin Screw, or any type of Centrifugal but I’d have no problem recommending either type, if the situation best suits it. 
