Advice from high hp sts owners
Advice from high hp sts owners Ok let me start off with I'm a nitrous guy so I'm new to the turbo world....so excuse me if I'm asking stupid ?s....I just bought a basic sts kit and thinking of going 370 or 408 and getting a pt88 turbo...I want to hit around 800 to 900hp...what heads,injectors,intake would be good and if you can tell me what combo you went with...Thanks
You can make that kinda hp with either of those engines and the PT88. What kind of budget do you have?
If you're on a budget, I'd go with 243 heads if you're going to run E85, and 317s for gas.
Stick with the stock LS6 intake for that hp.
Injectors will depend on what fuel you want to run. 80s would be a minimum. If you want to run E85, I'd go 160s.
Use stock manifolds, and wrap all of the hot side pipes.
It's going to be a touch laggy. You won't have much backpressure worries with the turbo in the back. E85 would help spool a bit.
Good luck.
If you're on a budget, I'd go with 243 heads if you're going to run E85, and 317s for gas.
Stick with the stock LS6 intake for that hp.
Injectors will depend on what fuel you want to run. 80s would be a minimum. If you want to run E85, I'd go 160s.
Use stock manifolds, and wrap all of the hot side pipes.
It's going to be a touch laggy. You won't have much backpressure worries with the turbo in the back. E85 would help spool a bit.
Good luck.
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Most people will choose to build their OWN rearmount kit over an STS for "HIGH" hp.
Reason being, piping is too small, their is alot of ground clearence to be had from a custom setup, and stepping pipe sizes, etc. The STS kit just has far to many flaws for a "HIGH HP" build.
I would suggest if you are set on a rearmount turbo, Search "ZOMBIE Rearmount turbo saga" and begin reading.
Also, Longrange4u has lots of info here as well.
Reason being, piping is too small, their is alot of ground clearence to be had from a custom setup, and stepping pipe sizes, etc. The STS kit just has far to many flaws for a "HIGH HP" build.
I would suggest if you are set on a rearmount turbo, Search "ZOMBIE Rearmount turbo saga" and begin reading.
Also, Longrange4u has lots of info here as well.
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Ok let me start off with I'm a nitrous guy so I'm new to the turbo world....so excuse me if I'm asking stupid ?s....I just bought a basic sts kit and thinking of going 370 or 408 and getting a pt88 turbo...I want to hit around 800 to 900hp...what heads,injectors,intake would be good and if you can tell me what combo you went with...Thanks
others chime in. there is a lot in the setup of this...
a pt88 in the rear seems like it would be a laggy ****. i kyou could reach your goals with a smaller sized turbo that would spool quicker
If your set on a pt88 look into a quick spool valve
If your set on a pt88 look into a quick spool valve
Everyone says this, but me and a few others are the only ones I know running them. I think it's because big turbos usually don't have divided housings available. PT88 = no divided housing. Last time I talked to Forced Inductions Jose told me the BW units were as big as they went and they had comp wheels up to 83mm.
That pt88 is going to be really laggy unless you do everything exactly right.
That pt88 is going to be really laggy unless you do everything exactly right.
i know of a guy with a homemade quick spool valve on his BW st80 and it works great, but his is a front mount turbo
And as zombie said, you need to do everything right and keep as much velocity as possible to spool that bad ****! 2.5" piping from the y pipe back might be your best bet
And as zombie said, you need to do everything right and keep as much velocity as possible to spool that bad ****! 2.5" piping from the y pipe back might be your best bet
