74novals1

i was looking at the sts site and sombody said it took little work to make the ls1 kit fbody kit fit a first gen. does anyone know anything about this?

67Firebird455

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I know nothing about it, but i would imagine it's just the charge and hot side pipe that would be different. I was thinking of riging up a kit on my 464ci Pontiac in my 67 firebird, wasn't sure if I was wanting to do front or rear mount. I fabricated the system on my TA now, rear mount, and seems to work excellent (up until the motor came apart), so I wanted to do it to the "drag car". I'm curious to hear what happens with this post...

trtturbo

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Personally, I would start with the universal kit and fab the charge pipe. There would be pieces you could use, but IMO, not cutting it all up; just starting fresh would be better.

Bankz27

I agree with TRT over there.....I dont think it will be that hard to fab something up for it just take your time go with it

Zombie

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If you have a big engine bay with lots of room why put the turbo in the back?

Bankz27

that is asking me why did I put a STS kit on a v6 firebird with so much room up front.

Pretty simple....wanted to be different

67Firebird455

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Yeah, on my 67, I was thinking with a front mount 88, PLENTY of room, the 455 sits prett far back, no ac or anything, just the radiator and electric fans, would be perfect. That's a whole different story with blow-through, but whatever. I would seriously fab it man, don't buy a kit designed for a car and cut it the hell up.

ls1tuboplan

Well me and a buddy were talking, and we are think of fabing a rear mounted turbo system for my other 00 firebird V-6, and make a custom system for the v-6, I think it will be fun and easy to do a junkyard turbo build...we basicly have a 00 firebird just sitting around, it sounds like it will be a fun build to see how fast a turbo 6'er will go.

NemeSS

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on a 3800 i built a t61 with a/a front mount
it put down 360 rwhp on 10 psi and alky inj.,12:1fmu,
boost was in by 3200 rpm
rebuilt engine with cleaned up,valve job,turned ls1 valves,heads
and 1.7 ls1 rockers,ls6 vs, was a 5sp car
ran pretty good

1fastWS6

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The rear mount would be a lot easier fab than a front mount due to the headers/hot side parts. Otherwise, I'd rather have it up front.

74novals1

i couldnt find any info on the universal b/c that was my first thought also, i didnt think it was available yet but ill look into it.

67Firebird455

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Well, the kit I fabbed up for my TA, I found each part individually, wrote down a list of what I needed/wanted and started ordering, piecing stuff together to make it work exactly how I wanted it. If you're gonna be fabbing something anyways, might as well draw out the battle plan, and find where to buy the parts and how much you'll have invested, and go from there.

gametech

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If I were doing a first gen kit, I would look into using a set of old corvette rams horn manifolds flipped upside down as a starting point for a twin front mount kit. No reason not to take advantage of a spacious engine bay if you have one.

67Firebird455

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Me, I was just thinking of making my own "headers", don't have a hell of a lot to choose from with an old pontiac! =)

gametech

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Yeah, I was thinking more in terms of chevy. I don't know where I would start with pontiac.

67Firebird455

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Probably start like most people with pontiacs, yank the pontiac and install a chevy. LOL