Installing turbo? - Page 3

YeaIDriveAWagon · 11-07-2009, 02:33 AM

I'll play nice

And thanks haha. I am going to retake them with a better camera so I can make them "calender worthy" lol. But for some reason this months contest is littered with white T/A and very nice pic of a Red Z28. So we shall see what happens. I took a photography class so I'll see what else I can cook up haha

LTWon · 11-07-2009, 08:48 AM

Poor poor craz... wants to have a diesel lt1 with a bolt on turbo... jesus

YeaIDriveAWagon · 11-07-2009, 04:19 PM

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Originally Posted by LTWon

Poor poor craz... wants to have a diesel lt1 with a bolt on turbo... jesus

Well gotta give him one thing. It is creative. Unlikely to work properly. But creative. I am afraid to turbo or supercharge my LT1 cuz it has 240,000 miles. They say turboing a stock engine basically sets a time clock for its demise. And I definitely don't want to do that.

JSK333 · 11-08-2009, 08:35 PM

CraZ28, if you ever put your ALDL cable to use and take some logs, I'm sure we could narrow down what's wrong with it. It may be something as simple as a bad O2 sensor. But you'll never know if you don't take the 5 minutes to do some logging and send it to me.

Dr6384 · 11-08-2009, 11:38 PM

He is creative....I will give him that. I don't think the 292xfi would be the best for boost. An Lt1 may run good on 5-6 lbs but if you are gonna spend the money for the turbo I think you should go ahead and build a lower compression motor that you could turn up to 10 to 15 lbs and really take advantage of the turbo. If it were me I would spend a little less money and talk to Lloyd about a set of LE2 or LE3's with a matching cam and have a setup that works well together.

2fast4u88 · 11-09-2009, 02:44 AM

Heads and cam will not give the power anywhere close of a power adder. They will add power to a power adder big time though.

Build the bottom end doesn't need to happen. Boost it first get the bugs worked out. Drive it and play while save for a built bottom end. No need to do it all at once. When you factor in the price of the parts need to hold and put down the power from 6psi. You will see my point.

It will make a big hole in the wallet. Trust me. Lol

Dr6384 · 11-09-2009, 02:58 AM

I have never built a boosted car. Everything has been N/A. I am sure that a good power adder will add alot to the car and a good set of heads will surely help. I can see the point about getting the bugs worked out while you save but I am not a fan of getting something together and going to only take it apart some time later. I overplan alot of my stuff though.

2fast4u88 · 11-09-2009, 03:02 AM

Your talking like 14k plus. I Had 15k in mine. With out a built rear or tranny or any suspension work. Not including what i paid for it.

Thats what i'm saying. If you got that cash all at once. Then go for. Most people don't though. If not your stuck with 6psi for awhile. As for the bugs part. That was more so because stock lt1's are cheap. Built not so cheap. Start out small and get it all worked out on the stock motor. Then build a beast. Don't want to blow up a 6k motor.

Dr6384 · 11-09-2009, 03:16 AM

I don't think many of us can afford to throw down 14 to 20k at once. I currently have a good bit of money in my 355 and tick tranny and it is easy to get a big amount spent quickly. I don't know how many miles Craz has on his engine but it is a 93 so it is pretty safe to assume that it has a decent amount. Maybe his best bet would be to find a good rebuildable block and just boost the stocker till it has had all it can handle.

2fast4u88 · 11-09-2009, 03:19 AM

Yea that was my point. I had that much in mine. From the ported heads,forged stroker, and the procharger. It adds up quick.

I believe he said it had real low miles. Could be wrong. But i know the motor inside is clean from the pics. So it has low miles and been taken care of motor wise. But the state it is in now. Well no one knows. But if craz does stuff the way he talks one could begin to wonder.

Dr6384 · 11-09-2009, 03:25 AM

I never saw pics of the motor. I kinda avoided those because I was afraid I would see some stuff that couldn't be unseen. After hearing about molten sodium and alot of the other stuff I was sure there was some kind of insanity under the hood. If it has low miles he may can get 50 or 60k more out of it before time comes to rebuild. Most anyone can afford to build something pretty nice in that time.

2fast4u88 · 11-09-2009, 02:20 PM

Yea mine was procharged I think at 23k. At 10psi from a p600b. It lasted to 72k or something. But that was because the fmu took a dump. Then the guy had another motor built. And still didn't figure it out. And cracked the rings in that motor. Which is how I got it.

But it was raced everyday possible along with being at the track. So i could see a low mile motor lasting awhile. Which would be plenty to save for a built motor.

BLACK HAWK · 11-09-2009, 03:55 PM

build the bottom end/ motor first as a stepping stone to what you want to do in the future.

2fast4u88 · 11-10-2009, 12:37 AM

True you can go either way. But most of the time we want more power. Instead of sinking money in the bottom end at first to have the same power as stock. Kind of sucks. Mine was supercharged when i got it with a built motor. But the guy didn't get a tune and only used the fmu. Needless to say it cracked the rings in it just like the stock one. So i got it and built another motor.

Though he ran it for 50k+ miles on the stock motor. Till the fmu took a dump.

BLACK HAWK · 11-10-2009, 01:37 AM

aw yes, we want more...the quest for more power... money wise, i think it's smarter to build a motor first then add more power later. just bolting on a blower, turbo or n02 will increase the risk of possible catastrophic damage to the block or to other vital components not rated to handle the increased forces all those systems will put produce. yes it's fun and cool to say " i'm turbo'ed, i'm supercharged, i'm running a 100shot..bla bla bla." but when one's motor blows and their "friends" leave them high and dry to find a way home because they pushed the limits of a stock motor, they probably wont think it's cool... if one has the cash, then do it all at once, if one doesn't have the cash,... build the heart first then add the redbull to pump up the blood pressure