Pantera #6665 w/twin Superchargers

Isn't that a Jim Kilpatrick car? I seem to recall seeing it in either a P.I. or POCA quarterly about 15 years ago.

Hi all. New to the site and learning about Panteras, hoping to at some point know enough to make an interesting purchase. Among the 15 or so Panteras for sale right now, I see this one on Hemmings. I would change the gold bling but wonder if the restoration / motor with the magnachargers is worth paying for, or is it just a future headache? Has anyone ever seen this one in person? I found a local add that brags of endless concours wins. Hmmm.

Thanks for any thoughts.

http://www.classifiedads.com/c...ntiques/c282xb1qrc98

https://www.hemmings.com/class...1.html#&gid=1&pid=30

I'd get in touch with forestg, here in the forums. He has experience with the Twin Magnacharger set-up. My understanding is, it's very old technology and was always more for show than go. If you want to drive the car a lot, the supercharger is a major headache. This is an early installation too as it's still running Weber side draft carbs. Later installations used EFI. I recall hearing they could only run about 6 lbs of boost.

The magnacharger units used for this conversion are no longer supported by magnacharger or anyone else. As long as all of your pieces remain within spec you have no problems, but should you ever need to replace a component you will not find replacement parts and would be forced to incur insane machining charges to replicate any needed pieces.

With the recent advances in scanning and replicating pieces with CNC techniques this may not be as difficult to do and may be cheaper than 10 years ago. But still something to keep in mind.

Larry

Thanks for the info, guys. Maybe this setup's a little too complicated for me relative to the payoff at this point.

When looking for cars I drove a white car that had that engine set up about 12 years ago, and I remember that thing bucked and kicked like crazy under load. Guy said it needed a tune. Sounded nice when it smoothed out though.

I found this in the 1988 Winter version of POCA's Pantera Profiles....