agreed much rather always have the power there when i want and plenty of it espicaly on a car that sees ALOT of street time 
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Originally Posted by Slowhawk
People said a 218 Cam wouldn't work in a 408 
Look at Mikes car,800rwhp all the time 
Bigger is not alway's better.
Look at Mikes car,800rwhp all the time Bigger is not alway's better.I agree, the biggest head and biggest cam, are not always the best way... works for some, but not for most. I just figured that he probably already had them on his old setup... or as Brent said, the backlog on the bigger ones is pretty nutty.
Regardless, once the boost is fed to it, it probbaly won't matter as much anyway, that setup is bound to make more power then needed I'd suspect.
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Originally Posted by JL ws-6
I agree, the biggest head and biggest cam, are not always the best way... works for some, but not for most. I just figured that he probably already had them on his old setup... or as Brent said, the backlog on the bigger ones is pretty nutty.
Regardless, once the boost is fed to it, it probbaly won't matter as much anyway, that setup is bound to make more power then needed I'd suspect.
Regardless, once the boost is fed to it, it probbaly won't matter as much anyway, that setup is bound to make more power then needed I'd suspect.
The motor was built to take alot more than we plan on throwing on it.
Originally Posted by Slowhawk
I'm shooting for 480-500hp NA. Then we'll put the blower back on The motor was built to take alot more than we plan on throwing on it.
The motor was built to take alot more than we plan on throwing on it.Sounds like similar goals to what I'm working on, only I'm gonna put the bottle to mine eventually.
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Verdad Gallardo I think that 500 rw will be enough on the street.... that coupled with a 4500 stall and 4.10's thru a TH400 is not easily beat.. and a stage or 2 on top of that well, you get the point.
THe FI route is cool that I agree on, and the power being there all the time is nice, but I'm not at the point where I'm gonna be ready next year to drop another 15 grand in a good FI setup, but a real good 3000 dollar nitrous setup with a standalone and all that I can do.
Don't get me wrong, if I had the $, the FI route is what I would have done.. the GMR twin kit was looking VERY tempting when I had a failure and was gonna have to redo the motor anyway... just the $ tag wasn't.
In my case, the $ is sitting in the backyard, in the form of a 24x24 garage with a 11 foot ceiling so I can put a lift inside it.
Back on topic..... Brent, I do have a question, are you keeping the car on the stock computer with the new setup once the blower goes back on, or going an aftermarket route? I know with nitrous, because you tune that seperate the sky's pretty much the limit, but with FI I've always been under the impression the stock computer was only good to a certain point.
THe FI route is cool that I agree on, and the power being there all the time is nice, but I'm not at the point where I'm gonna be ready next year to drop another 15 grand in a good FI setup, but a real good 3000 dollar nitrous setup with a standalone and all that I can do.
Don't get me wrong, if I had the $, the FI route is what I would have done.. the GMR twin kit was looking VERY tempting when I had a failure and was gonna have to redo the motor anyway... just the $ tag wasn't.
In my case, the $ is sitting in the backyard, in the form of a 24x24 garage with a 11 foot ceiling so I can put a lift inside it.
Back on topic..... Brent, I do have a question, are you keeping the car on the stock computer with the new setup once the blower goes back on, or going an aftermarket route? I know with nitrous, because you tune that seperate the sky's pretty much the limit, but with FI I've always been under the impression the stock computer was only good to a certain point.
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Actually with SD 2 bar/3bar and the new roadrunner computer we will never need an aftermarket computer.I plan on running my own car on the stock stuff and that will be well past 1k hp.
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Originally Posted by Z28_Ninja
awesome car brent, and nice clean set up don. i know once it is broken in you wont waste anytime seeing what it can do brent 
Last edited by BrentC5; Jul 1, 2006 at 09:04 AM. Reason: word
Originally Posted by Slowhawk
Actually with SD 2 bar/3bar and the new roadrunner computer we will never need an aftermarket computer.I plan on running my own car on the stock stuff and that will be well past 1k hp.
Understood. I know alot of the high HP turbo cars are running the BS3 and other systems, ( AEM ) wasn't sure if the supercharge setup had limits as well.... other then the injector limitations I can't really see any reaosn that the stock computer wouldn't work.
