More results from the turbo car
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Sorry for bring this back from the dead talked to a couple of people latley about the car and found this vid on my computer.
Here is a vid of the car in question at a dyno day trying to kill the motor.
http://videos.camaroz28.com/video/34...2a000e0a8c.htm
Here is a vid of the car in question at a dyno day trying to kill the motor.
http://videos.camaroz28.com/video/34...2a000e0a8c.htm
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Sorry for bring this back from the dead talked to a couple of people latley about the car and found this vid on my computer.
Here is a vid of the car in question at a dyno day trying to kill the motor.
http://videos.camaroz28.com/video/34...2a000e0a8c.htm
Here is a vid of the car in question at a dyno day trying to kill the motor.
http://videos.camaroz28.com/video/34...2a000e0a8c.htm
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Wow, I haven't thought about this thread in years. For some reason, I got an email saying a new post had arrived. Talk about nostalgia!
Sorry guys, no pictures! The secracy was because I had a job I hated at the time and wanted to go into building things like this full time so I was pretty protective since I had a lot riding on it. Oh well, never went through and I'm enjoying a much better gig now.
Ironically, this kit is still running in its original form on a friends car. I had finally hurt the engine a little so I said hell with it and killed it on the dyno. That video was the result. Poor thing had so much blow by, we put a shop vac on the oil fill to try to keep some kind of clean air in the block! Good times. I got far enough into it to buy the forged rotating assembly but ended up selling it to the same guy that bought my old kit. I ended up selling the car as a roller and going to an ls1.
The results of that dyno were a sheared ring land on the #4 iirc and the rings everywhere else were toast. The markings on the ground, I have no idea what caused them. Nothing was over there. The turbo and all the exhaust components were on other side and there were no holes in anything when I pulled the engine apart. Who knows!
Kit details a long time in coming
I was using BBK shortie headers and built a 2.5in crossover that bring the passenger side exhaust over to the drivers side and it Y'ed into a collector just under the K-member and went up into the turbocharger. The turbo sat where the AIR pump used to be (iirc on an lt1, lower drivers side). The exhaust snaked its way back past the steering and dropped down there where I had a cut out. From there, it made a couple bends and joined the regular exhaust. Turbo if I remember right was a 72mm compressor with a .55 A/R Ts04 housing, I don't remember the center (it was large than a T4), I don't recall the turbine specs but the housing was a .69 A/R on-center type.
Intake ran off the turbo over to the passenger side inlet to the intercooler which was flat mounted parallel to the ground with a single 12in fan. It came back up and over to the elbow as you see in the video. I never did get into tuning the car. The fuel system was infact 30lb SVO injectors (32ish on GM pressure?) and I was running a stock fuel pump. The fuel came from a tandem inline pump and fuel pressure was ramped to the moon via the 8:1 vortech FMU. there was enough fuel pressure there to split the stock plastic fuel line at one point. It never did run lean!
Trying to remember the details but I did drive it from Tulsa to St Louis to go to World Ford Challenge one year where it dynoed 480 something horsepower and drove it home. Ended up being a 800 and something mile trip. When I finally did put a decent rearend and clutch in the car, after this thread, I shattered an ls1 drive shaft (the nick of paint missing off the front of the car in the video was the result of pushing it on a trailer that night). Never ran it enough to pull down a good time. Best ET was 11.8 and best MPH was 128.
Sorry guys, no pictures! The secracy was because I had a job I hated at the time and wanted to go into building things like this full time so I was pretty protective since I had a lot riding on it. Oh well, never went through and I'm enjoying a much better gig now.
Ironically, this kit is still running in its original form on a friends car. I had finally hurt the engine a little so I said hell with it and killed it on the dyno. That video was the result. Poor thing had so much blow by, we put a shop vac on the oil fill to try to keep some kind of clean air in the block! Good times. I got far enough into it to buy the forged rotating assembly but ended up selling it to the same guy that bought my old kit. I ended up selling the car as a roller and going to an ls1.
The results of that dyno were a sheared ring land on the #4 iirc and the rings everywhere else were toast. The markings on the ground, I have no idea what caused them. Nothing was over there. The turbo and all the exhaust components were on other side and there were no holes in anything when I pulled the engine apart. Who knows!
Kit details a long time in coming
I was using BBK shortie headers and built a 2.5in crossover that bring the passenger side exhaust over to the drivers side and it Y'ed into a collector just under the K-member and went up into the turbocharger. The turbo sat where the AIR pump used to be (iirc on an lt1, lower drivers side). The exhaust snaked its way back past the steering and dropped down there where I had a cut out. From there, it made a couple bends and joined the regular exhaust. Turbo if I remember right was a 72mm compressor with a .55 A/R Ts04 housing, I don't remember the center (it was large than a T4), I don't recall the turbine specs but the housing was a .69 A/R on-center type.
Intake ran off the turbo over to the passenger side inlet to the intercooler which was flat mounted parallel to the ground with a single 12in fan. It came back up and over to the elbow as you see in the video. I never did get into tuning the car. The fuel system was infact 30lb SVO injectors (32ish on GM pressure?) and I was running a stock fuel pump. The fuel came from a tandem inline pump and fuel pressure was ramped to the moon via the 8:1 vortech FMU. there was enough fuel pressure there to split the stock plastic fuel line at one point. It never did run lean!
Trying to remember the details but I did drive it from Tulsa to St Louis to go to World Ford Challenge one year where it dynoed 480 something horsepower and drove it home. Ended up being a 800 and something mile trip. When I finally did put a decent rearend and clutch in the car, after this thread, I shattered an ls1 drive shaft (the nick of paint missing off the front of the car in the video was the result of pushing it on a trailer that night). Never ran it enough to pull down a good time. Best ET was 11.8 and best MPH was 128.
Last edited by turboSpeed; Jan 21, 2008 at 10:21 AM.
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Yeah the guy on the floor had the best view! He had one of those cryo kits that sprayed CO2 on the intercooler's heat exhanger on his terminator so he donated the bottle and some bravery. We started running low on CO2 and they only thing we could get 1/2 way through the dyno run was nitrous so a mix of CO2 and nitrous. At the end of the video, we couldn't get it to start so we sprayed some nitrous off another bottle into the turbocharger to get it to start. Then drove it 25 miles home! LT1s get no love these days but they are damn tough engines.
The first run (492? hp) with no IC spraying was on 93 pump gas. You can see it's already smoking up quite a bit of blow by out of the oil breather. I honestly don't remember what the boost was but I think it was something like 10-11.
The first run (492? hp) with no IC spraying was on 93 pump gas. You can see it's already smoking up quite a bit of blow by out of the oil breather. I honestly don't remember what the boost was but I think it was something like 10-11.
Last edited by turboSpeed; Jan 21, 2008 at 10:35 AM.
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10-11 psi but with no tune for the turbo...?thats awesome bro mad props on the #'s which are pretty impressive almpst a gain of 200rwhp on a stock engine with a single turbo kit supa mad props...
oh yeah and holy wowsers batman on the amount of blowby she was blowing all in all how many dyno passes/times down the track did the stock engine last before it started acting up looks like it held up quite a bit.
oh yeah and i love my LT1'S....
oh yeah and holy wowsers batman on the amount of blowby she was blowing all in all how many dyno passes/times down the track did the stock engine last before it started acting up looks like it held up quite a bit.
oh yeah and i love my LT1'S....