I have never had a Whipple problem on my car. The 4.5 ran 8.7 at 4500 lbs and was 100% reliable. The 3.0 DragPak has been bulletproof. My 3.8 ran 7.80 in the blue car and is still perfect. But…. I’m still going to turbos because of the issues. Dodging that bullet has just been luck. Do they have it figured out like I’ve been told? I think they have (hope they have) but I have a car that can put a proper turbo setup to work and I don’t want to take the chance of repeated supercharger issues that would cost me time, travel expense or a loss at the track. I still own the fastest blower only 3.8 in a 4000 lb car (it lives in a box in the shop now). And having just gone 8.22 on a blower only 3.0 in a 4000 lb car, I have the fastest one of those too. When we ran the Last Call event at Vegas last March, the Blue Car (no 1 qualifier) lost in the final because the 3.8 (Adams not mine) ate itself after 8 passes. That was a $3000 purse that was also lost. I know when we run the new turbo setup there will be some haters out there saying it’s just a fullblown/high dollar race car that isn’t even a Hellcat anymore. That real hellcats with turbos don’t work. It’s right that there’s a lot of stuff that needs to done to make turbos work, but there are some packages being developed out there right now that are going to include that and the supercharger issues are helping drive it. Things have changed so much in the last four years that stuff that wasn’t possible is now commonplace. 3.5 years ago I was one of 6 cars that had run a 8. Now there are about 100. I predict in two years we will have a list of 7 second twin turbo Hellcats on the Drag n Drive tour. Anybody wanna bet ? 😁
