This kit lags no more an .01 seconds on other kits? Did you actually sit in cars and time this with a stopwatch?

No tuning on a turbo? $15K QMP kit? 60-1 turbo? you don't have a clue.

 

Anyone have a price range on this thing yet?

 

the lt1 is $3500, still waiting for info on the ls1 kit

 

I'd have to say that the 512 hp and 600 ft/lbs that the STS kit produced on the LT1 with just 1.6 Rockers, Forged pstons, and an MSD is not to bad and seems to be pretty powerful. I mean realy on 91 octane and 14 psi, thats awesome for an auto to dyno thats mostly stock. I have seen several 12-14 psi LT1's with mildly built motors on the dyno and not one hit the 500 mark.

 

well since i hav enothing better to do lol
Anything new to post about STS turbo kits on LS motors since 2003

 

Since you dug of a post from 2003 I am assuming you searched but you still Fail.

 

Fail... not so much.
Actually ive been doing a little research but wanted alittle more input from people that have it on their rides. Since they first started i noticed that they now provide a FMIC, a Subframe type charge pipe on the driver side, a hidden and tuck up fiter position, and with upgraded kits injectors and meth kit. I want to say they that some sell with a fuel system upgrade aswell but id have to read around again. If i get ahold of one, im gonna do what one guy did and make a stand alone oil system with a cooler. Ive also learned if you modify how the turbo sits on the exhaust side, you can get it to tuck up under the car even better, reducing chances of hitting anything. I also thought about doing belly pans under the car to reduce under car drag and turbulance and if one was place under the rear of the car while a turbo was there, that would help alos isolate the turbo from the elements a litte more as well. Ive also learned that at 4-5 psi you can acheive 450ish range of power and 500ish on 8-9 psi with meth. ANd thats not just what STS says but alot of other people that have owned it. Ive also learned that the oil system (in sts stock form) sucks and that the pump likes to go out ocassionaly. THat and the PCV hook up needs to be corrected. On the plus side sts improved their oil return at the cap. but if you do a stand alone system on yours you bypass this all together, which you dont have to run the return line and no tapping into the engine oil. you ca also upgrade the turbo either through sts or on your own. Wrapping the exhaust provides gains and a tune can save your life No STS is not the best turbo system in the world but yes it works and sith some tweeks and better hose clamps and couplers, can perform quite well.
so did i miss anything? lol

 

facepalm!!

 

Yes, move the turbo up to the front of the car. Bob

 

but then it wouldnt be an sts now would it?

 

I own an STS kit, and it's on my '95. Yes, A LOT of tweeking needs to be done to it. I also have a FMIC with my kit. My car is done for the winter because the seals on my GT40 blew, and I am pretty sure I blew a piston ring after only 1,000 miles with the kit installed at 6 lbs.

 

I plan to do one for my 98 ta

 

Zgobyby, that IC setup under the front clip in ur sig looks so nice! makes me want to hook up a nice blower on mine now...

Hey Mr. Joshua from Germany, I bet in the 7+ yrs since this thread was created, many many people have installed or tuned one of these kits for an Lsx car. I bet if you would just find your favorite search engine (vroom vroom) and type in "Ls1 STS turbo kit" or something along those lines, A LOT of info would come up from many different sites and people opinions, etc about these things. You would end up saving a lot of time and effort then digging up VERY old threads and posting a question in there when most of those members prob dont even come on here anymore.

 

Thanks! It took so much work to really get it right, and I have to start working on the Z again in a couple of weeks here to get the thing running again. I don't really like when people cut out the whole center section on LT1 Camaros for their intercoolers, it looks weird to me.

 

Yeah, i do alot of seaches... thats how i find these old threads lol. I look all over the place, trust me. I like diggin up old threads cause somtimes it shows the progress of their builds after so long. Shows wether they stuck to it or if they went another route. somtimes all it takes is an inquisitive soul to bring an old thread to life. Somtimes people just forget about it and later on, somone digs up an old one and has ALOT to contribute.

 

its funny to see people argue that this kit did not work... 8 years later... they are still around and they do work...

 

lol isnt it? Ive been keepong my eye on STS for a while andi always thought they looked cool and they were different. Just waiting on the tech to get better so that more info can be introduced on them, making them better.

 

Really?? Do a search for the username Longrange4u. He is making over 1000 wheel hp with a rear mount turbo. The engineering is much better than what STS offers. Rear mount can be made to work very well, just not in a box from STS.

 

This. I'm building a rear mount but about the only things I'm using from STS are the hot pipe, turbo, and wastegate. Modifying pretty much everything else about it from the piping to the oiling. Lots of downsides to the STS kits but they are definitely correctable.

 

Oh I have been and what i ment that its nice to see that the forums are revealing the possibilities of a rear mount. Ive always like sts's for some reason.