No Drew they are not the same. Please dont say this when you go back up there...they might take offense
Wow I didnt know they were the same company...I assumed from different product line,address and phone numbers they were separate.
Kris, do you mind me asking, when did that happen?? I know over the years Paxton (Granatelli??) always seemed to be in financial trouble and since having kids I've kinda lost track of them over the last few years but being as I have a Paxton blower on my Mustang I should keep up. Are they under the Vortech Engineering banner now??
It has been several years now that they have been one company, in fact you can see how close the addresses are lol Vortech Engineering 1650 Pacific Avenue Oxnard, CA 93033 Paxton Automotive 1300 Beacon Place Oxnard, CA 93033 History of Paxton McCulloch supercharger history Using his inheritance from his multi-millionaire grandfather, Stanford engineering graduate Robert Paxton McCulloch set up the McCulloch Engineering Company in the 1930s in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, specifically to develop engines and superchargers that would allow him greater speed in his racing efforts. McCulloch released its first supercharger in 1937, designed by Francis Colburn specifically for the Ford flathead V-8 engine, then entered the war production effort in the early 1940s, making blowers for military equipment. After the war, McCulloch moved his operations to Los Angeles and turned his sights on small engines, lawn mowers, chainsaws and even helicopters. Yet shortly after McCulloch created Paxton Engineering in 1950, the company's focus turned once again to superchargers, resulting in the VS57, introduced in September 1953. In late January 1954, Kaiser announced that it would install the VS57 supercharger on all Manhattans with the 226-cu.in. flathead straight-six engine that year, a move many consider a stopgap preceding Kaiser's planned-but-never-realized V-8. As many as 5,440 superchargers were fitted to Kaiser engines before Kaiser stopped making cars in 1955. Packard next employed the VS57, but the supercharger only boosted the 359-cu.in. straight-eight engines in the five 1954 Packard Panthers, propelling one to 131.1 mph at Daytona that year. Studebaker started a lasting relationship with McCulloch-Paxton in 1957, installing the VS57 on the Golden Hawk's and Packard Clipper's 289-cu.in. V-8. Paxton later supplied the SN supercharger for the famed Studebaker Avanti and Lark R-variant engines. Paxton continued through a handful of design changes into 1974, when production shifted to industrial applications because of the reduced interest in performance products. But just five years later, public demand brought the company back into automotive superchargers, using the same designs through a merger with Vortech in 2001. Since then, Paxton has focused on the production of Novi gear-driven superchargers.
