Eaton Swap vs. Trilogy Price?

[GAMike]

Good question, because the supercharger you select is only as good as the folks doing the installs.....

If you go with a Trilogy S/C, there are a number of options in no particular order(and yes installation costs will vary...... Contact direct for that info...)

--The Stooges (Tallboy, Carfixer, & Shakes26) These guys have done many installs and everyone who has had their services raves about em ... Out of So. FL but will travel

-- Alternative Auto Lideo has done a good many installs and besides Dennis R. probably has more experience tuning Marauders than anyone.

-- Scott Levine Senior Master Technician formerly with Team Toyland here in Atlanta, now with Mullinax Ford in Canton, OH..... The only guy that has worked on my Marauders since I have owned them. He has alot of expertise with Ford Performance, and had performed many Trilogy installs in the past.

-- Wes Chain Out of Houston, TX sells Trilogy S/C's as well and provides installation services (Please correct any inaccuracies Wes as I am not as familiar with your offerings as the others listed).

There may be others up north + + +........ Sherm's son I know has done alot of work and is a superb tech/tuner of Marauders (based on the magic he has worked on Sherm's 10 sec. Marauder) but don't have enough info to comment more. Please feel free to add to this list if folks more detailed, relevant info.........

My guess is, if any of the above are chosen to perform the work, regardless of what you pay, you will be very happy. Again this is what I know about Trilogy specific installation services.....

Folks with knowledge about the Eaton Swap install services feel free to post up

What about for us guys that have tons of knowledge with cars...but just under the line of "know-how", that maybe a blower install is best left up the pros?
Does Trilogy and anyone else, install these things - and does it increase the cost substantially?
(If this ever is in the cards for my car - I would even send it Trilogy if thats the case).

[Bradley G]

When you pay too little for something, you pay for dissapointment.

The last time out to the track 93P did five Hot Lap 12 second passes, all within a few hundredths.

When you break, or if a part fails, Trilogy is an OEM Engineer/Design company, they will help you.

As justbob mentiond in an eariler post, "Even if you are not a customer!"
The number of happy/ delighted Trilogy customers are in the hundreds.
Some people are here giving advice, where they have NO experience.

[ImpalaSlayer]

When you pay too little for something, you pay for disapointment.

The last time out to the track 93P did five Hot Lap 12 second passes, all within a few hundredths.

When you break, or if a part fails, Trilogy is an OEM Engineer/Design company, that will help you.

As justbob mentiond in an eariler post, "Even if you are not a customer!"
The number of happy/ delighted Trilogy customers are in the hundreds.
Some people are here giving advice, where they have NO experience.

Pay for dissapointment? Are you kidding me?

[Mac-MerC]

Pay for dissapointment? Are you kidding me?

naw..... i think he was dead serious

[lastdaze04]

I had Dennis R. Do mine and I am quite happy. He even improved it by several ways. The 2 most notable were making my fuel line read boost and relocting my IAT so that it does a better job.Thanks Dennis.. I have knowledge but but lack in the know how dept.
Rick

[Zack]

When you pay too little for something, you pay for disapointment.

The last time out to the track 93P did five Hot Lap 12 second passes, all within a few hundredths.

When you break, or if a part fails, Trilogy is an OEM Engineer/Design company, that will help you.

As justbob mentiond in an eariler post, "Even if you are not a customer!"
The number of happy/ delighted Trilogy customers are in the hundreds.
Some people are here giving advice, where they have NO experience.

Everytime your lips seperate, this happens:

[Bradley G]

Pay for dissapointment? Are you kidding me?

I am not sure you paid too little what was your total outlay?
Just a portion of the satisfaction I mentioned, is performance over time vs. savings.
How much time was involved accumulating used parts?

qUOTE=lastdaze04;948860]I had Dennis R. Do mine and I am quite happy. He even improved it by several ways. The 2 most notable were making my fuel line read boost and relocting my IAT so that it does a better job.Thanks Dennis.. I have knowledge but but lack in the know how dept.
I never mentioned names, glad you are happy!
Best of luck with your health Rick, I sent a member a PM who asked me to keep an eye out for a nice used Marauder.
I would buy it if I had the means right now.
Peace and love be with you,
Bradley
Rick[/QUOTE]

[DOOM]

Pay for dissapointment? Are you kidding me?

Well you did pay to have your intake put on the wrong side.

[ImpalaSlayer]

I am not sure you paid too little what was your total outlay?
Just a portion of the satisfaction I mentioned, is performance over time vs. savings.
How much time was involved accumulating used parts?

about a month gathering parts which i found to be one the most fun parts. and like 2 weeks to install working a few hours after work each day. i payed about 3500 including a dyno tune.

[sailsmen]

Many of the MM are over 8 years old with 100K miles and are selling for $8-$10K. The "new" owners tend to be younger with less money then those who bought new.

$2,500-$3,000 difference for someone who paid $8K for a car is huge and the difference between getting an S/C and not getting one.

Many of these "new" owners have more time on their hands and can do the install themselves, particularly with help from members on the board.

[SC Cheesehead]

I am not sure you paid too little what was your total outlay?
Just a portion of the satisfaction I mentioned, is performance over time vs. savings.
How much time was involved accumulating used parts?

about a month gathering parts which i found to be one the most fun parts. and like 2 weeks to install working a few hours after work each day. i payed about 3500 including a dyno tune.

A BIG +1 to what Dave said!

I'm not knocking Trilogys by any stretch of the imagination, they are the best aftermarket S/C set-up out there IMO, but they are buy it and bolt it on option. There's a lot to be said for "old skool" DYI, like before I was growed up.

For me, a big part of the attraction in an Eaton swap IS the journey. I've been collecting parts since last spring, wheeling and dealing, looking for bargains, tracking down hard to find parts, and I have made a bunch of new friends and have gained a ton of knowledge as a result. Heck, I'm spending almost as much time over at SVTPerformance as I do here!

Certainly there's the financial aspect; I'm finally in a position where I can afford a Triolgy, but if I can do an Eaton swap for half of what it would cost me for a Trilogy, then I've got a couple thousand that I can spend on other mods; what's not to like about that?

That said, I defer to Rodney King, "Why can't we all just get along?"

[Bradley G]

Without Trilogy's R & D investment, there would be no Eaton swaps.

[Zack]

Without Trilogy's R & D investment, there would be no Eaton swaps.

Really? Go ahead and back that crackhead statement up.

Because the brackets were copied (stolen as you refer to it) that means no one else could ever have dreamed up another way to achieve the same goal?

Wait look! I think thats Jerry photographed in the pic below. Whuda thunk your tunnel vision would have him in it

[GAMike]

Zack:

Someone may have thought up sumthin for themselves sure.... But to develop/engineer and then stand behind components is a much larger undertaking than most weekend hotrodders are capable of..... Or want to deal with.

Never mind all the other things to deal with when commercializing (liability, business insurance, other legal questions ect.)a product as Trilogy/Jerry has done

Simply put he put his money where his mouth was long before anyone here, when it came to the Eaton setup. If the brackets being used for the Eaton Swap are similar in design(I don't know...Never seen an Eaton Swap up close) then just like in the record biz, you are "sampling" and in the record biz, royalties are paid on those samples.

Am I saying Eaton Swappers need to pay royalties??? I will leave that up to the folks on either side of this. I will say that if something was copied, just say it was, rather than all the back and forth.

In the end Trilogy put a very nice piece on the street and really showed the community how to do it right from early on, to the present time.

Now if you came up with your own brackets that don't look a darn thing like or are made with different materials/attach differently, then by all means that is original thinking.

[Zack]

This thread is pointless the more I look at it.

I eaton swapped my car, used my Brain and not my checkbook to install it, and the first time to the track with it I ran 11.99 @ 115.

If you wanna compare apples to apples, my kit out of the 'many boxes' is faster...where as the Trilogy looks great