Justin: Hey everybody, Justin with AmericanMuscle.com.
Really excited to share with you some big news going on here at AM.
Now over the last few months the Bama team are working very hard on developing their
own supercharger system available for the 2015 GT, which will be dropping here at AmericanMuscle.com
very soon.
In fact we already installed one of these on our 2015 Bama GT and took it down to North
Carolina to do some testing and well, see for yourself.
Hey everyone, Justin with AmericanMuscle.com and Paul from the Bama Performance Team and
of course, our old friend the 2015 GT.
Now of course you guys haven't forgotten about this car.
Nine second with the help of a nitrous shot.
But we're back, we're back with a different power adder, and we're back to have some more
fun and do some testing.
Paul, what's going on with this thing now?
Paul: We're out here testing our Bama supercharger.
It's a 2.9 liter twin-screw supercharger, with 123 millimeter mass air-housing and a
huge 132 millimeter elliptical throttle body.
Justin: Very nice.
Now we had this thing on the Dino already kind of fine-tuning that massive throttle
body.
What's this thing weighing down?
Paul: At about 11 pounds of boost it made 687 horsepower and 510 foot pounds of torque
to the rear wheel.
Justin: Wow.
Now obviously we're here at the track to kind of compare our times.
The only issue is we're at an eight-mile track so we're going to have to compare our nitrous
times, our quarter mile times, to these supercharged eight-mile times and kind of see what the
front half looked like, and see if we're basically beating our old times based on that data.
So we're just going to get this thing in the line, and you know, shake it down, see how
it does.
All right Paul, so first pass off the trailer not too bad, right?
I mean the car's only a tenth slower, but it picked up mile an hour.
Paul: Yeah, two mile an hour over our nitrous runs, but still first pass off the trailer,
shaking it down.
Justin: Shaking it down.
Yeah.
New power adder.
Paul: I wish we were at a quarter mile track, because this thing would definitely beat our
990.
Justin: Yeah, definitely if not better than that for sure.
So what's the deal?
Paul: Same time pretty much as before, 645 at 112.
Justin: All right guys, we're here with our driver Justin.
We just finished shaking the car down, making a couple of passes, and overall the results
were pretty good.
We went 640 at 112 miles an hour in the eighth.
It's about a tenth off of where we were with the nitrous but we've picked up, you know,
two miles an hour.
Why don't you explain to everyone what the difference is really with the eighth-mile
and quarter-mile and why you think this thing is going to shine once we get it to the full
quarter-mile track.
Paul: Well, traditionally nitrous cars do a lot better in the eighth mile, you know,
it hits with a lot of torque, you don't have to rpm it as much, and it's going to usually
get to eighth mile quicker than a supercharged car would.
And a supercharged car on the other hand will pull a lot better on the back half of the
track, and this has a lot more usable rpm than we did with the nitrous.
So we'll be able to rev it higher, shift it higher, and I really think this thing's going
to go a lot better once we get it on a quarter-mile track and the back-half numbers will be a
lot better than the nitrous was.
Justin: Well, Paul, these days are a lot of fun, right?
We're out here with our 2015 GT, we're shaking the thing down, a brand new power adder, and
we're not looking to break any records.
We're just gathering data and I think overall you think it's a success.
Paul: Yeah, overall the car's a great success.
As you said, we're just shaking down the Bama supercharger and it's basically the exact
same way we would sell it to our customers.
Ten and a half, 11 pounds of boost, same fuel system that they would get, and the car in
the eighth-mile went 637 at 114.
Again, using that calculator with the ET and the mile an hour we can track that down to
a 1006 at 141 miles an hour.
But really, if this thing was at a full track because we have that full usable rpm range,
I think it would actually go faster than our nitrous run.
Probably in that 989, 985 range.
It's got the mile an hour for it.
So again, for the first day out with the Bama supercharger I'm so happy with the results.
Justin: There you go man, this guy pretty much said it all.
It was a success.
Any time you can come out to the track, have a lot of fun, collect a lot of data, and more
importantly drive the car back onto the trailer with a new power adder that says a lot.
So guys, we had a blast down here in North Carolina, obviously the car's doing great
with its new Bama supercharger.
Look for those to hit AmericanMuscle.com very soon.
Again you can pick up the exact same kit we have on this car and go click off a serious
time.
So you guys know what to do by now, we are not even close to done with this car.
We're going to be going a lot faster, I promise you that, and a lot of it is thanks to this
guy and the Bama Performance Team.
So stay tuned and for all things Mustang keep it right here at AmericanMuscle.com.