Thats what I like to hear. Every now and then I will turn up the boost but most of the time I'll keep it down or safety's sake.

 

Here's a big question......Do you actaully have $25K lying around that you are ready to throw into the car right now???

I'm inclined to say that you should do it one step at a time. Learn how to drive the car with more horsepower. i've seen cars loose or gain half to a full second in the quartermile just on the driver alone. Your car may be ready for some 150mph's but you won't be.

Build the engine, build the tranny, build the suspension, add nitrous or a turbo(Nitrous would be easier, but a pain to fill the bottles all the time)

Remember a heads/cam and nitrous(100-150) lt1 will still run 11's @120's with a proper tune. That's plenty fast for most people.

 

My thoughts exactly. I WILL be careful with my ferocious baby.

 

No I don't have all the money yet but I will within the next 6-8 months. I'm just trying to gather tips/ideas on what I will need to do to get my car equipped for 150. I guess nitrous would be another good choice but I am unsure of which one to choose. What do you guys think? Turbo or nitrous? With a properly built motor could I still get 150 with nitrous instead of a turbo? Thanks,
TJ

 

My 2001 Camaro will run 9s at 150 mph and can still make the occassional trip to Burger King. Although at $7.50/gal for 104 U/L, it really drives up the cost of burgers. See at http://www.hollowayllc.com.

 

Stealth2, very impressive setup! What kind of intercooler are you using for your car? Do you have numbers without the nitrous in use? Also, what kind of trans is this going through? Thanks.

 

Turbo or nitrous.....Turbo AND Nitrous That's what I'm going for. The nitrous will help intercool the turbo and allow greater boost. This also allows you to not have to build a 1000hp turbo system, you can get away with a not as sofisticated/expensive turbo system that way.

Or if you choose just do one or the other. My mechanic runs a HELLUVA-SHOT-O-NOS. All caps for a reason. He's got like a 4-500+ horsepower shot on his engine last time I checked. You just need the engine built right to handle it.

 

Extreme Machines intercooler (1500 cfm). Rossler T400, w/2.48 lg. Made 775rwhp last November on the old YS blower. Will dyno this month on the new YSI blower.

 

I'd say if its built well enough it could hold the power for awhile. I remember a thread in the drag racing section awhile back that had a 2000 z28 running a 400 shot of nitrous using a built 4L60E. Isn't that guy with that LPE Pewter Vette running high 8s with a built 4L60E too?

 

A 4L60E will have a very short life span in a 140/150 mph car. You need to go with a T350 or T400.

 

You should buy Stealth's car, he was looking to sell it and he's got a lot of very good parts in his build.

And 150mph in the 1/4 with a 3300 raceweight is ~800rwhp.

I've hit 746rwhp and hope to eventually hit 145mph traps but it might take me all summer to get to or close to that number. We'll see if I have the right gear and converter.

135mph is very attainable for a guy on a budget, I think 145-155 gets pricey.

I just bought a stepdown box for my fuel pump and will get some street tires for my spare rims so I plan to drive my car this summer.

 

I hate to be the dick but this goal will not happen. I have been into cars and worked on them for a long time. The one thing I have noticed is that the guy that says he is, or at one time, had a car this will do something outragous. Thsi guy is a liar. If you ask him questions about it he will make excuses or make more bull **** up. The people with cars that have the abillity to do what you want have been WORKING on cars for a longtime. If you go to a shop and have them do all the work then you know nothing. If some thing then brakes you are back at the shop and there high labor rates. They have chossen to spend alot of time on Fbodies (Jordan and Brook) and that is why they have or will soon have a car of this magnitude.

Even if a car has the abillity to trap 150 I doubt that it will with this guy driving. There is so much involved to get a car to do that and I bet he is not one of those people. I am guessing all of this just by the content in his post and the actual question he posed. I have only done minor maintenance on F-bodies and helped with bolt on projects and I know that this is a huge goal. I am not financially blessed like this guy (I call BS on that also) but if I were I would not try to take on a project like this. I know that it will take alot of work and ever more maintenance.

Michael

 

You cant categorize people like that. I will go as far as to say that if I spent the $$$ to build a car that trapped 150 mph, I would not drive it every day because I could not afford to fix it if it decided to break on the street.

 

You know absolutely nothing about me, my financial situation, or my ability to drive. Have you heard the expression, "Think before you speak"? You need to think before you post.

 

I did think before I spoke. I had five pages of reading to think before I spoke. All I am saying is that the only poeple who have done it have alot more experiance doing it. Since you like expressions here is one: Crawl before you walk. There are five pages of people that are saying the same thing. Start small and work your way up. Jordan didnt just build a 1k Hp car. He worked up from a bolt on car to what he has accomplished. I see alot of people in real life or on boards that have accomplished very little and then want to go straight to the top and none of them have the experiance to do so. On DSM boards people that dont even have exhaust on there car are asking how to build a 10 second DSM. Everyone tells then the same thing, to start small and work there way up. Most of there responses are like yours. I dont want to waiste time doing all those little things when I know I can get to a final product now. Well part of going through all those little things is what made the big dogs exactly what they are.

Michael