I might be buying a used sts kit and was wondering do you get lag from running long tubes with a kit like this ? The motor is a stock lt1 so how much boost should i run with it safely? It is the car in my sig. What is the pros and cons with this kit, How much power can i expect to get. i have juice on the car but have not shot it yet. I have about 3000 to spend and this is in my ballpark is there any other complete turbo kits at that price? May also consider supercharger but i love the sound of turbo. My freind has a 331 ford engine with two 101 turbos done by kooks it makes 1631 hp to wheels at 45psi and it sounds sick so hearing the spool from that makes me drool. Sorry for the rambleing. Thanks

 

You need to watch this turbo lag demo video I made of my stock LT1 with an STS turbo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdjh3EY6shU
Make sure you read the video info too.

What people generally recommend is that you can safely run around 7 or 8psi on a stock motor.

Say a stock LT1 makes 300hp at sea level (14.7psia atmospheric pressure), that's just over 20hp per psi of manifold pressure. You can therefore expect another 20ish hp x 7psi or around 150hp, putting you up somewhere around 450hp.

So if you increase manifold pressure of any engine by 50%, you can expect a 50% increase in power because airflow will increase about 50%.
Assuming you don't change anything else, this math can give you a pretty good guestimation for forced induction applications because all the motor knows is that there is more air flowing into the motor because it's at a higher pressure.

 

a4z28 - shoot me an email if you want to discuss turbo kit options and prices (jon@lt1boost.net).

MikeGyver - very cool video.

 

Not my post, but sent you a email anyway Jon...I like the looks of stuff on your site

 

Got it Joe!