Turbo build is in full swing boys. I picked up a never installed, Huron Speed v3 no A/C kit for about 1200 bucks cheaper than buying it new, got all my odds and ends for the most part bought, but still havent settled on turbo and cam selection just yet. I posted a thread over on tech, if you guys want to check it out, vote in the poll etc.

https://ls1tech.com/forums/forced-in...d-6-0-80e.html

Do you recall 5 years ago today

https://i.redd.it/7x2hj15dv6721.jpg

i dont know what that is but i bought a billet 7875 VS racing turbo today and im gonna go fast

What AR? And what the CC of your motor?

What did it look like before the accident?


http://i.widelec.org/1m_s.jpg

Hint

****... did I miss something???


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I think that Sunfire is a concept vehicle.

I would have looked, even today.

We have this cool concept for a new model, we call the Sunfire.
But.......we’re just gonna go with the Cavalier platform instead,

Isn't the platform the same between models?

.96, 364 ci/6.0

it will be limited by the exhaust wheel.. but its still going to make what I need. (have seen these make anywhere from 600-750 hp on a 6.0 depending on setup) ts the largest small frame turbo out there that is a reasonable price. the BW s475/s480 is probably the 'perfect' fit for a 6.0, but there are a couple issues.

first - the size of the turbo, it would take a lot of fudging to get it even to fit in the kit position (for those who dont know, the BW style turbo are ****ing HUGE)
second - the fab work. , not only to make it connect to the turbo headers , fabbing a downpipe, swapping to a turbo k member (i can stay stock with my current setup) moving the radiator, fabbing a bracket to hold the damn thing, etc etc
third - honestly, those kind of turbos make it easy for me to turn it up high enough to scatter it all over the highway, and.. the temptation would loom.

so yea, i spoke with Huron Speed who makes my turbo headers/kit and basically he advised to switch to the t6 manifold if i want to go borg warner, which is more hassle, fab, money than i want to **** with, and people have gone 9s on the 7875s in full weight cars so thats going to be plenty for me. They also spool sooner and have a meatier midrange than the larger sized turbos, so i think they will be just fine for my street car.

I mean hell.. in 2010 we all used to sit around and marvel at the guy with a 76mm turbo in his mustang on how huge his turbo was, and now im looking at 78mm turbos going 'i can make that small turbo work' lol

here is a very similar example of my setup, the only difference is he is going through a t56 and i have a 4l80.

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he made
711 rwhp
771 rwtq
17 PSI Pump 93 + 100% METH

I dont know if i mentioned it, but I will also be spraying meth, bought a nice little kit and dual nozzle set up from snow performance

That's easily 10 years off.

Variable valve timing explained in layman's terms

its happening boys!

Over the last two weeks just working a couple hours a few days a week after work, I have pulled and disassembled and inspected the motor and trans (shit was CLEAAAAN and rings where gapped properly already.. oh well) Preparing all the new parts, the new heads, etc etc.

Motor and trans are back in the car, and starting tonight the turbo build begins!

we gonna go fast! will get some pics of the progress.

BTW anyone want to buy a FAST 92/92 setup or a set of hot tanked and ready to go set of patriot stage 2 CNC ported 243s with 59cc chambers? (11.5ish compression depending on setup) heads are complete with 1500 miles on BTR .660 springs and retainers, and super nice harlan sharp roller rockers. I KNOW YOU NA BOYS WANT TO MAKE SOME POWER~

Since I technically posted a Grand Tour post in the Top Gear thread, and since this Gearhead thread is actually active at the moment, and as Capt Slow drives the Exorcist and hometeam is hotrodding a T/A, I'll repost here.

LS06 LT4 bumped up to 1KHp

http://hennesseyperformance.com/vehi...ercharged-zl1/

That thing is ugly.

Too bad it just isnt as good as Top Gear.. havent even watched 2nd season yet :(

1st year was a little rocky. 2nd year was much better. 3rd is off to a great start, and they're signed on for at least 2 more years, . . . and the big thing is 4&5 will be exclusively Travel Specials.

They've already ditched the celebrity chat/lap. Next year, they ditch the tent and audience and everything except on-location hijinks, though presumably there will still be new car driving/rating segments interspersed.

Are you referring to the Urus?

If you say so. I wouldn't kick it out of the driveway, though.

https://i.imgur.com/lD1uvKk.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/tgRdaXf.jpg

We gonna go fast

Well, since the NFL season is over, it is now race car season.
Have made great progress on the car. Since the below pics i have heat wrapped and fully installed the hot side and turbo.

Still need to bend power steering lines out of the way, get the meth kit mounted, mount the radiator , fans, and trans coolers, (going to do a 1 push 1 pull fan setup because of space~ that will definitely be different) cut the bumper up and reinstall, and of course, dyno the damn thing.

Getting soooo close

cold side

https://i.imgur.com/nxsLd3z.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FbYGzid.jpg


oil drain setup from turbo

https://i.imgur.com/XWqwy2Y.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/jsJe3QH.jpg

Oh yeah? :)

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media...dnlxmd2zzo.jpg

You going to run a scavenge pump for that drain?

Nope, gravity feed only.

Got everything buttoned up for the most part tonight, will put some heat cycles in the valve springs tommorrow night.. still need to get the odds and ends and the meth kit etc but Thursday or Friday car should be boosting its ass off in this cold weather lol

Second episode in, and I don't think they're still worried about people taking offense anymore.

So we busted ass last night, started at 4pm, finally turned the car off after its maiden voyage at 2am.

We started with the turbo manifolds on and turbo, but nothing else. We had to wire everything, run all the new gauges, run all the new coolant lines, evac system, rewire the fan setup, but my favorite thing we did was the Meth installation.

I am going to run 100% meth in this application, so we wanted to come in a little ways out from the throttle body.

We ended up figuring out a super slick setup. I removed my cruise control unit (cant keep cruise with a 4l80 trans in an fbody, so it hasnt worked for a year or more anyway) and mounting the pump in that location, with a very short travel to the dual nozzle setup this was ideal. We also modified the turbo kits fabbed intercooler bracket and where able to mount the reservoir on the back of it, very similar to the stock washer fluid location.

https://i.imgur.com/xpukXzG.jpg
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MOST everything seems to be in good shape.

MIAs question about the scavenge pump was a little prophetic. While a lot of people have ran this setup as gravity drain, it looks like under braking that it backs up the oil drain and some comes back out the exhaust, not a big issue, and I have several different ideas to remedy of it. Going to check out the catch can setup and see if we can get some more evac out of it, also going to look into seeing if we can raise the drain point to make more of a slope. And last resort, will be a scavenge pump setup.

Also have a strong vibration under medium throttle (didnt go WOT last night) that I think may have to do with the pinion angle since the front sits even lower with all the added weight, raising the tailshaft housing on the trans, forcing my pinion angle out of whack.

That being said, we didnt hit boost but MAN this thing sings. We have some slight kinks to work out but I think this is gonna be funnnn

Some turbo porn for ya

https://i.imgur.com/kBnh8h7.jpg

Anybody on here ever ordered a new Roush vehicle before? I'm seriously considering ordering a Roush supercharged F150. I have a couple questions about the process.

Alright boys,

Since the superbowl is ****in bullshit, and its going to be 65 today it is.. guess what that means?

RACE CAR DAYYYYYYYYYY

This turbo build is close to being in the books, drove the car on full boost yesterday and let me tell you.. hooolyyeeeee shitballs!

This thing is a ****in monster! Just using wastegate pressure, the car made 17 pounds of boost at 128% injector duty. We have a little perfect quarter mile spot out here in 'mexico' thats been marked off that we have used for years, and even yesterday in 50 degree weather, with the road pores weeping water, sand and everything else, and blowing off the tires for 300 feet the car trapped what we estimate to be 140+mph in the quarter from a dead launch. That's a 9 second car gentleman.

Now that being said, we did cut the spring a little so that we could dial the boost in. (cant go backwards off of the wastegate spring but my MBC can always get us more if needed) Ended up making about 13 pounds at 90% injector duty cycle, which leaves us plenty of headroom for improvement.

Just a guesstimate its a low 10s, high 9s car at 13 pounds of boost before we start touching any thing. I dont think thats bad for an overweight, iron block/turbo kit/4l80e/9inch/full interior fat ass f body.


Still need to button up minor things like figuring out an air filter that will actually fit, raising the car up on the front about an inch (going to use BMR spring mount inserts) since with the iron block, the turbo kit now up front hanging off the motor, combined with the sam strano springs and this thing is slammed too far. And of course, fine tune on the dyno.

Who else is ready for race car season?! :Pinky:

I'm pretty happy with the 300hp 358 in my elko.

I ordered a P 51 years ago. My process was:
Chose the options! Color! and accessories I wanted.
Went through Roush and 1 of their SoCal (then local to me) dealers and they found the car in Yexas. We worked the deal and I flew to Texas to get it.
I had to order some of the accessories direct from Roush. Things like trunk mounted tool kit, wheel center caps, etc.
Great car- much quicker than my previous ZO6 or Shelby but you had to work more. I sent back the computer toRoush for an additional tune and they forgot to mention the extra tune took off the factory rev limiter...
Hope my experience helps you.

The Toyota Supra is back. :thumb:

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I will be checking it out as I have owned 4 and a handfull of GTS convertibles.

I'm hoping it makes the 370Z (which should have a V8 in it by now) look bad.

Why would they call it a 370z if it had a v-8 in it?

Go a lot of stuff squared away today - completely got rid of the smoking, all it took was adding a big crank case filter in the oil cap and voila~ enough evac to let the oil go where it needs to go!

We backed the tune down some since I am breaking it in a little and we are testing the waters. Pull below is on 12 pounds, no timing, blowing tires off (it was hooking really well with hot tires and when it was 65 earlier today)


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Looks ass ****ing terrible, its a bmw z4 with a ugly ass shell. Looks like a damn RX-8 took HGH. A huge disappointment IMO.

It would most likely be an upgrade from the 370Z (3.7) which once was a 350Z(3.5) It's time for them to upgrade with an optional 4.8 V8 480Z (2x 2.4l) with tons of Nismo GTR stuff standard.

Mercedes 2019 offerings are:2.0-litre turbo inline-four (241 hp, 273 lb.-ft.), 3.5-litre V6 (302 hp, 273 lb.-ft.), 5.5-litre V8 (415 hp, 398 lb.-ft) and once had a blown 3.2 349hp V6 AMG option.

With the YODA you get a BMW 3.0 straight 6.with a turbo, Nissan needs to step up with a V8.

So the bad boy would be a 480Z.

I know Nissan will make the 400 horsepower twin-turbo V6 available soon, but not until forced to do so. I wanna V8

Looks are not the whole story, personally I think the Trans Am was a suck ass car but bitches loved them. I hated my Camaro convertible but the price was right.... I had the 240Z's and the early and late Supra's. I need to walk around and drive before deeming it a POS BMW 2 Series.

HGH ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFL

Overpriced, overhyped, underperforming, plus looks like the chinese crested dog of cars.

It is a POS BMW z4~ Whole entire Supra fanboy community is mega disappointed. I dont blame em.

Butt****ing ugly.

That is awesome dude. Gonna need some bigger tires soon.

And you sell Stingers? I need better graphics...

what's wrong with these dogs

https://www.jklgrooming.com/Library/...puff_Chart.jpg

http://www.wlccrescue.org/uploads/1/...15001_orig.jpg

The Supra looked over detailed on aerodynamics but failing to make a real engine available is what happens when you spoon with the Germans.

Ithe first time I seen it I thought it was a fat Subaru BRZ or whatever they are called

Yea had a feeling hometeam, I’ve been there SEVERAL times. Am easy fix, enjoy the ride.

When it was warmer out it was fine it just spun a little from dead launch.. im running 26 inch tall hoosier radials. Might have to run radials on the street and slicks for the track i guess. I had 28.5 radials as the last set but im telling you it was like 4 millimeters between the tire and fender so i went to 26s this time.

there is not a whole lot more I can do suspension wise besides going to a full drag shock/strut setup which i reaaaallly dont want to do since i street drive this car 99 % of the time

car already has welded subframe connectors, 9 inch, tunnel mounted torque arm, lcas, panhard bar etc

Hometeam doing God's work in here.

Bless you.

Have to get people fired up and interested in race cars....



...to replace all the people mustangs run over


ayyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Nitto 275/60/15's are 26.75" tall. You may be able to find some middle ground.

I'm a fan of Mickey ET's.They seem to get more tread width on the same size tire as others but they don't last for shit.

Good thing about boost is you can work on bringing it on a little later once you get going.

yea i dunno i really hooked better going to my hoosiers.. used to blow the ET streets off, they where not a lot better than my toyo proxes imo. The nitto compound isnt going to be worth a shit compared to the ET streets or hoosiers.

I mean there is a ton of factors that go into traction and im sure you can find a hundred guys claiming the opposite of what im saying lol

Oh no I agree the Nitto is harder compound than Mickey and I haven't tried Hoosier, I may give them a shot next.

For some reason I just remembered the Nitto were a bit taller than than the Mickeys in the same size which makes no sense.

I have run the ET's and Nittos on my car running 50's and 60's. Neither hook up but the 50's seemed too short and the 60's are almost too tall. Amazing what 2" difference diameter of tire do to the RPM range.

I dont sell stingers. Not only do they look far better than the supra, I dont get to decide what manufacturers sell.

Chinese crested typically look more like this
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see the resemblance?

Mustangs are gay.

I get it.

Can somebody talk me out of buying this car? I am seriously considering it.

https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/invent...ting=209478946

I think he's more specifically referring to the Mustang's recent notoriety as a human seek and destroy vehicle.

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I wouldnt even try to talk you out of it.

those are badass.

actually i just bought an ls3 2010 camaro a couple weeks ago and its a great driving rig. 6 speed (of course with the ls3)and we've already kicked around selling it (got a smoking deal on it, old guy that bought it new sold it to us for abut 8k les than they are going for with 60K on them) and buying a new zl1...

i really like the white and black and the blue ones.

Off topic:

Does anyone have Quickjacks? Costco has them for $999 right now and I'm thinking of picking up a set.

https://www.quickjack.com/media/cata...garage_1_1.jpg

that thing is an 18 so they oughta knock about 5k more off though.


and that wing...im not really a fan

Cable dahmer has a white one for under 60k. I didn't compare options though.

You can’t fix stupid

That black Cobra was me.

looked at em before but i dont know if they justify a 950 dollar premium over a floor jack

Not a ZL1 1LE is would be my guess. the 1LE is another $7500 option and adds the different front and rear spoiler with the flat black hood.

The 1LE suspension option is pretty radical, the Camaro was only 3 seconds behind the Z06 at Nürburgring last year. :eek:

To complicate my decision making a buddy with an optioned out 2016 Z06 with 10,000 miles on it asked if I wanted to take over payments. I'm waiting to see what he owes on it.

The car in question from a post a few years ago.

Damn damn damn.

Is that the carbon fiber package in the 1le?

Tough decision. 2-3 years payments off...

My god that’s a beautiful car.

I ordered one of these today! Now I have to wait about four months :-(

So a while back I talked about how i was having some oil issues, oil burning in turbo etc and how I had cleared that up. Well it turns out under more testing it was NOT cleared up, just a little bit better.

I started doing some digging and came across an idea that a proper actual PCV system would keep the oil flowing away from the turbo regardless of the angle of the car, or sitting ona decline etc.

I started talking with David from Mighty Mouse. Some of you guys might know him, as hemakes all kinds of catch can solutions for perofrmance cars. Anyways after k ind of figuring out my needs, I settled on a catch can/pcv system in one, thinking it might cure my issues.

So I got the piece put on the car, and let me tell you, this thing is beautiful. But most importantly, after some heavy testing, I can now finally say that my oil burning issues are cured! I never ever gave a second thought to a proper PCV setup and how it might affect the car, but I am glad I stumbled across the suggestion online.

https://i.imgur.com/hksZbtl.jpg


With the oiling issues fixed, and the car on a fully safe tune, I am ready to turn this baby up~ Car hits the Dyno next weekend and we are gonna string this thing out and see if we can keep the rods in the black.

Happy car season yall!

Hey man, are you making it up this way to this years Festival of Speed?

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well there she is boys~

Dialed her in tonight pretty well, once we did about 7-8 pulls getting th e AFRs right the tires got a bity greasy, so when we added timing to make some real power we started blowing the tires off on the dyno, never where able to get a non-spinning reading on a full pull.

Car made 550whp and 680tq at 11 degrees of timing at 9psi. On the street the car is hitting about 13 pounds of boost but on the dyno the conditions just dont allow that.

With adding 5 degrees of timing, at 13 pounds of boost we are estimating somewhere around 700whp and tq on this dyno with a clean run. To put into perspective for some of the folks in CP that may want something to compare 'manufacturer' numbers too, the car is around 900 crank horsepower, over a hundred more than say.. a hellcat.

Im pretty happy with it but we have now ran into a new issue.

TRACTION. At 400whp my suspension setup was fine, even at the 550 level before we turned it up it was fine. With the car turned up now, i can blow the tires of st 70mph if I want too by stabbing straight into the throttle. From a dead stop, or even a 30 roll its extremely sketchy traction wise and I cant even get a true full pull~

Car goes to the paint both on Sunday! No more unpainted hood, rock chips, broken spoiler etc.

Hope you other guys winter projects are going as good~!

damn. nice.

Question, going to put headers on my elko..builder of my motor recommended headers with a 3/8 flange as opposed to 5/16/ or 1/4, to help eliminate leaks and warping.

...but I've heard others say it's not necessary..

Thoughts?

Good advice, harder to install, but all my Z's run 13mm (1/2) or thicker flanges.

Thought you might enjoy:

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Why would a thicker flange make them harder to install?

I don't work on small blocks often but I do have some bent and cut off wrenches that If I recall correctly were for in car installs of headers on SB Chevy's. Probably "Clarance" issues at the rear of some installs. I recall cutting. grinding and bending wrenches before good stuff like this come out.

https://i2.wp.com/www.stage8.com/wp-...96%2C414&ssl=1

Having an even thicker flange might make this issue mute or exacerbate it, I'm not sure but I have kept those wrenched for 25 years so they must have been useful at some time.

The only thing I work on these days are Datsun engines.

How thick is the flange on your average exhaust manifold?

What did you end up doing? Zl1, vette?

I've almost got my 10 where I want it to be, I'll post before and after pics soon. It's getting there

I have no ****ing idea what this post has to do with my question.

After much internal debate I decided I couldn't buy the Z06 unless I sold the Chevy II and I cant bring myself to do it. Eventually I could justify it but I am afraid if I buy a Z06 or ZL1 without finishing the old car i will never "finish" it as I envisioned.

So....the plan is to finish the upgrades on the car this year including the supercharger and new wheel tire package.

I have spent the last 3 days trying to find custom offset 17" or 18" rally wheels and haven't had much luck yet. I need a 8" wide 5" offset for the front, and a 9" wide 4" offset for the rear, first few manufactures have told me they cant do that.

Keep in mind I know i can get this done for big $ but for $1K a wheel I would do something different than the rally wheel as much as I like it.

we need to get together sometime.

Have to checked into those guys in Detroit that make the steelies?

I think you are probably qualified to answer your own question, I don't look at normal manifold/ header flanges daily. I have a hobby of building L28 engines utilizing carb heads.


I do have my winter beater that has an exhaust gasket leak on number 8 making a 2005 Crown Vic a total loss if studs (even 1) start breaking.

Any new ideas on how to not have to pull the engine/ head to remove/ repair studs.