Author: VettePro

~ September 2, 2010

England Green in Houston just installed an A&A Corvette Supercharger Kit on John’s2007 C6 Z06. There were no other modifications made to the car. Yes, this car is bone stock otherwise. The end result? 644 RWHP and 560 RWTQ.

EnglandGreen Corp.
3135 Fall Street
Houston,TX 77054
281-464-2800
http://www.englandgreen.com

Author: VettePro

~ August 31, 2010

Vengeance Racing in Cumming, GA, just finished this 2008 Z06 forged engine and supercharger package installation. From the Proline Race Engines forged 427″ LS7 shortblock to the A&A Corvette YSi supercharger kit, this Vette put down 789 RWHP!

Mods:
Proline Race Engines -- Forged 427″ LS7 Shortblock
ARP Main & Head Studs
Comp 26926 Spring Kit
Katech C5R Timing Chain
American Racing 1-7/8″ Stainless Longtubes
A&A Corvette Supercharger System
Vortech YSi-Trim Supercharger
A&A 8-rib Upgrade
12 Pounds of Boost
RPS Street Twin Lite Clutch Kit
Pfadt Racing Coilovers
Pfadt Racing Sway Bars
Pfadt Racing Adjustable Camber Kit
Install / Tuning by Vengeance Racing
789.74 RWHP
712.65 RWTQ

Street Video:

Vengeance Racing
241 Castleberry Industrial Drive, Suite B
Cumming, GA 30040
678-513-7105
http://www.vengeancerd.com

Author: VettePro

~ August 12, 2010

Luigi brought his 2009 Z51 Corvette to Tom at Wong’s Performance in Vancouver, WA, to have an A&A Supercharger kit installed. In addition to the custom supercharger kit, he also had American Racing long tube headers installed. The car was tuned and the power was impressive!  The results on the rollers? 597 RWHP and 544 RWTQ.

A&A Corvette Custom Supercharger Kit
Vortech V-3 Si-Trim Supercharger
American Racing Headers
Custom tune by Tom Wong
597 RWHP
545 RWTQ

Wong’s Performance Engineering
9305 NE Hwy 99
Vancouver, WA 98665
360-695-9433

Author: VettePro

~ August 4, 2010

 Champion Motors, in Ontario, Canada, supercharged Mike’s 2007 Corvette. The addition of the A&A Corvette Supercharger kit increased the horsepower 339 to 569 and the torque increased from 346 lb./ft. to 495 lb./ft. This is a gain of 230 RWHP!

Champion Motors
1861 O’Connor Drive
North York, Ontario M4A 1X1
416-751-8047
http://www.cdnperf.com

Author: VettePro

~ July 28, 2010

We will install one of our latest supercharger systems and one of our small blower cams with all the necessary hardware for $7500. This will include the complete supercharger system with camshaft, springs and a heavy duty adjustable timing set, installation, dyno tuning, fluids etc.

The blower cam will REALLY wake the car up.

If you just want the system installed, without the cam, it will be $6599. We’re just going to do a few at this price. If you think about it, the cam deal is a better way to go. Why? You’re getting the cam installed for just about $0.00!

This deal applies to our Si-Trim (V-2 or V-3) system on any C5 or C6. The C6 Z06 and Z51 LS3 6 speeds will also include a new DeWitt’s radiator. ($650)

If you are interested in a bigger build, give us a call, we’ll work an equally great deal on a complete forged motor and supercharger setup.

A&A Corvette C5 Supercharger Kit

 A&A C5 Corvette Supercharger Kit

A&A Corvette C6 Supercharger Kit

A&A C6 Corvette Supercharger Kit

Author: VettePro

~ June 22, 2010

Check out the work that EnglandGreen did to this 2007 Corvette. They installed their Whiplash cam kit, A&A Corvette Supercharger Kit with a Vortech Si-Trim supercharger, F.A.S.T. 102mm intake (ported by SpinMonster), AFR 235cc heads, Methanol Injection system and American Racing headers. The car was completely stock when it made it’s way from Florida to the crew at EnglandGreen. In the stock trim, the LS2 made 372rwhp and 375rwtq. After Jason, Stephen and crew were finished, it made665rwhp and 568rwtq. A gain of 293 horsepower and 193 lb/ft of torque with less than 7 pounds of boost!!!

Approximately 785 horsepower at the crank! And it drives like stock!

EnglandGreen Corp.
3135 Fall Street
Houston,TX 77054
281-464-2800
http://www.englandgreen.com

Author: VettePro

~ June 16, 2010

The Vette Doctors in Amityville, NY, just finished up Vito’s 2008 Z06. They installed an A&A Corvette Supercharger kit along with American Racing long tube headers and an Alky injection kit. After the Docs installed the supercharger kit and tuned the car, it made 677 RWHP and 575 RWTQ!

The Vette Doctors, Inc.
26 Elm Place
Amityville, NY 11701
631-841-0779
http://www.thevettedoctors.com

Author: VettePro

~ June 9, 2010

Here at A&A Corvette Performance, we have been asked a lot of times how the supercharged cars would handle in a road course. Would the car overheat? Will the increased power be to much in the turns? Enter Richard Buckle. Follow along on his journey over the past two years…

My wife and I had liked the look of the C6 Corvette from the moment they first started arriving in dealer’s showrooms, and had been contemplating trading our 2004 C5 Le Mans blue convertible for a new C6. We waited for the second year of production before actually doing the trade and early in the fall, drove off the lot in a 2006 C6 Le Mans blue coupe, with the optional Z51 package. It was one of the earliest six-speed auto coupes and came equipped with paddle shifters. We had our Vette almost two years before we became clients of A&A, in the summer of 2008.

Over dinner with a good friend Hal, who races a Mustang in the American Iron series with the National Auto Sport Association (NASA), it was suggested that we may want to try our hand driving the Vette around road courses. NASA oversaw a program called High Performance Driver Education (HPDE), and it would give us an opportunity to test our skills under the watchful eyes of experienced instructors. This was barely a year after we traded for the C6 Vette but it would be another year before we eventually made it to the track, and we have been accumulating laps at different Southern California (SoCal) circuits for the past three years including Buttonwillow, Willow Springs, and Cal Speedway.

The ‘Vette coupe began to fill many roles, as it wasn’t just our track toy! Not only was it the wife’s daily drive, but it was also filled in as a long-distance tourer as we commuted between our home in Boulder and our rented townhouse in Simi Valley. All of our early track experience has been gained on SoCal tracks but there’s now a new track in Colorado that we have learned to like. High Plains Raceway (HPR) outside of Byers, to the east of Denver, opened in 2009 and we have begun to work in time to participate at that venue as well. It was during one of the early trips back to Colorado, in 2008, and after a couple of weekends at the track, that we first began to see how much power we were forfeiting at higher altitudes. “Ever thought about installing a supercharger,” Hal inquired.

We probably wouldn’t have pursued this if it wasn’t for the fact that the following weekend, back in SoCal and pulling out of a shopping center, a new Lexus ISF simply blew past us! More power was definitely called for … so after checking through magazines and trolling the Internet, I came across Vortech. “No, we don’t do the installations, we just sell the equipment,” was the response from the Vortech salesman I called, but he then added, “you need to take it to Andy over at A&A Corvette Performance- he will do the installation for you!”

Each summer there’s a break in the NASA program as time is set aside for the NASA racers to participate in national championship events. With no immediate track weekend planned, we took the car to Andy and he went ahead with the installation of the complete A&A Corvette Performance supercharger package that included their proprietary air-to-air intercooler. The fuel delivery system was upgraded with Andy installing new gauges for fuel pressure and boost on the A-Pillar. Engines are nothing more than big pumps, so it made sense to upgrade the exhaust system and, taking advantage of the car being in the shop, Andy and his crew added American Racing 1 7/8” headers / 3” collectors, X-pipe, and 3” long pipes. However, and almost as a last minute decision, we elected to retain the standard C6 mufflers and tail pipes in order to preserve a stock appearance. Looking at the final set of figures from Andy’s dyno? Priceless!

Racers who saw our first appearance back at the track openly scoffed at us and made sure we were left in no doubt of how stupid we were. Track cars only ever need about 300 to 350 hp and you have 600hp! Perhaps more, given that you are pushing it all through an automatic transmission. Actually, Andy and his crew had tuned the Vette to give us just on 500 rear wheel hp with 466 rear wheel lb-ft of torque – more than 80% of the torque available well before 3,000 rpm, and from that rpm it was pretty much a straight-line between 4,000 rpm and 6,000 rpm. To put this in perspective, the August 2008 issue of Vette magazine ran a new 2008 Z06 up on a dyno and it produced 451 rear wheel hp with 419 lb-ft of rear wheel torque. According to Vette magazine, this made that Z06 the “the most powerful of the three Z06s we’ve tested since the car’s introduction.”

The workmanship of Andy’s crew was outstanding. When we drove into Buttonwillow that first weekend back at the track we had to pass “tech inspect”, and the technician who checked us out pulled and tugged at various fittings and came away highly impressed. “A supercharged Vette may overheat,” he advised us, “so be careful as they don’t take to the track all that well!” Nothing could have been further from the truth, however, the Vette’s coolant temperature gauge stood steady around 200 all weekend!

Surprise! Surprise! Not only didn’t the car overheat or show any signs of stress, we actually improved on our own lap times by the reckoning of those watching us. Sure, the big Vette could accelerate down the main straight like nothing else we had ever driven, but with the automatic transmission we could drive all day in 3rd gear with just the occasional shift to 4th for the “marginally longer” straights of Buttonwillow. When we turned up at Willow Springs a month later, we found that we could round half the track in 3rd with the second half of the track, including the main straight, in 4th as well! There was just so much torque available it made the gear selection irrelevant. The car couldn’t quite stay with the Z06s exiting corners, as their final drive ratios are a lot taller, but working on our turn-ins and nailing our exits certainly helped overcome some of our deficiencies in this area!

We routinely take the car back to Andy and his crew put it up on the lift to check it out, and everything has held together wonderfully well. The old adage that road course track toys don’t benefit from superchargers and only those who drag race should consider them, no longer carries much weight with us. The Vette continues as a daily drive for my wife, and shortly we will be driving it back to Colorado for another weekend at the HPR. These days we just sit back and enjoy the fun of the track! We truly have come to appreciate the quality of the work done by A&A Corvette Performance and we feel secure knowing Andy and his crew are fully committed to ensuring that we have the package we need, and stand by every change they have made to the car. The C6 Corvette coupe remains a great car but with what we have now, it would be a tough call ever considering changing it for anything else!

 

You can follow Richard at his blog here.

Author: VettePro

~ May 28, 2010

In December, 2008, Andy flew to Phoenix to pick up John’s brand new Z06. He drove it back to Southern California and we immediately went to work pulling the motor to install forged pistons, a blower cam, an RPS clutch and other goodies. The car left with 778 rwhp and 681 rwtq. Fast forward to beginning of May and John decides he wants a more aggressive cam, Pfadt coil overs, DeWitts dual fan kit, larger dongle and some other minor work. Here are some pictures of John’s Z getting the second round of go fast treatment.

Here’s a short list of the updated modifications:
LS7 shortblock honed .005″ over
Diamond Forged Dished Pistons
Stainless exhaust valves
Dual valve spring kit
A&A Corvette Supercharger Cam 23x/24x
Dewitts Radiator
Dewitts Spal Dual Fan Kit
RPS Carbon – Carbon lite twin disc clutch
A&A Corvette Custom Supercharger Kit
Vortech V-7 YSi-Trim Supercharger
A&A Corvette 8-rib Conversion
A&A Corvette Fuel System with Aeromtive A1000
Aeromotive Fuel Rails
80lb Fuel Injectors
MSD Coils
Brembo Gran Turismo Brakes
RPM 3.90 Rear End
Pfadt Adjustable Coil Over Kit
Pfadt Street Sway Bars
Dynatec 1 7/8″ Headers
B&B Fusion Exhaust
LG Man Knob
Autometer Boost and Fuel Pressure Gauges
Autometer Gaugeworks Gauge Pod
818 RWHP
715 RWTQ

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Author: VettePro

~ May 25, 2010

A&A Corvette Supercharger Kit
Vortech V-2 Si-Trim
Dewitts A05AE Radiator
A&A Corvette 228-236 Cam
Dual Valve Springs
HD Timing Set
ACT Dual Disc Clutch
Pfadt Yellow Coolant Hoses
ARH 1 7/8 Headers
LG Motorsports Man Knob
Z06 Muffler Mod
Yellow Painted Valve Covers
Yellow Painted Top Shroud
Yellow Painted Intake Manifold
Red Painted Coil Brackets
626 RWHP
591 RWTQ

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