The throttle body was then...
The throttle body was then bolted on to the mouth of the blower. Be careful when installing the throttle body as you do not want to strip the bolts.
After hooking up the TPS and...
After hooking up the TPS and drive-by-wire connections, Winter installed the open-element airbox in the factory position.
Once the airbox was in place,...
Once the airbox was in place, he installed the supplied high-performance air filter and then installed the mass air meter.
With the airbox in, Winter...
With the airbox in, Winter installed the stylish plastic inlet tube. Sealing the tube to the mouth of the blower and the airbox are two large rubber hoses that slip around the inlet tube. Once the tube was in place, the remaining vacuum lines were hooked up.
After two days of work, the...
After two days of work, the blower was on, and the car was ready for the tune to be uploaded. We couldn't wait to hear the whine of the supercharger and feel the effects of its boost.
Before we fired up Project...
Before we fired up Project MILF, we had to load the kit's tune with the aforementioned tuner. It's a simple plug and play procedure as the tuner plugs into the diagnostic port. Once plugged in, the tuner will upload the tune, and when the green light illuminates, feel free to turn the key and hear the roar.
After getting our dyno numbers,...
After getting our dyno numbers, we rolled to the track and boiled the hides in preparation for a supercharged assault on the Raceway Park quarter-mile. Project MILF lit the scoreboards with a 12.66-second best at 107.7 mph, which is almost a 0.9-second improvement in elapsed time and an increase of more than 7 mph over the stock 13.52-second/100-mph effort. We hooked up a boost gauge and found that, thanks to the great air we had when we ran, the Whipple was pushing 7 pounds of boost.
While Michael Napp may run...
While Michael Napp may run Raceway Park and take Project MILF down the track anytime he wishes, his wife, Dee, has a few ideas of her own. Everyone in the local supermarket's parking lot better be on the lookout for some rubber residue.
The only part that doesn't...
The only part that doesn't come in the original packaging with FRPP's Super Pack is the tuner and self-contained tune needed to get the car running. However, it is included in the price, and you order it through the FRPP Web site using the vehicle's information. While we ran into a few kinks at first when it came time to order the tuner, we eventually got things ironed out. In the paperwork for the kit is a yellow instruction sheet detailing what you need to do to get the tuner. Before we dialed up FRPP's Web site, we made sure we had the vehicle's model, year, and VIN. Once we got on the computer, we completed the five-step process, and seven days later our tuner showed up.
Before and After
To quantify just how effective the FRPP Super Pack was, we took Project MILF for a few runs down the track before we went to work. We baselined the car with a 13.529 elapsed time with a speed of 100.11. After the install, Project MILF thundered to a 12.661 at 107.73, resulting in an e.t. change of 0.868 second and a speed improvement of 7.62 mph. Also, our 60-foot time dropped from a 1.95 to a 1.85; almost a 0.1 second improvement.
In addition to making before and after dragstrip runs, we also did before and after dyno pulls. Our baseline pulls had us run the car on Crazy Horse Racing's Dynojet chassis dyno. The car recorded a peak horsepower of 251.1 at 6,300 rpm and a max torque reading of 265 lb-ft at 4,200 (Figure 1). After we put on the blower, we let Project MILF rip on the dyno again, and we saw the power increase to 335.8. As is the norm, the peak torque number increased as well, peaking at 308.5 lb-ft at 4,300 rpm (Figure 2). The math equates to a horsepower increase of 84.7 and a torque increase of 43.5.