Get a procharger or go turbo, help?
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Get a procharger or go turbo, help? I've kept up with this thread for three years now and was set on a procharger for my car. Just to give you a little background on it, it's a 98 ss with heads, cam with a forged bottom end built for na 347. I have become bored with the 455 rwhp it makes because of newer cars are faster now and I don't like loosing which rarely happens. I have a 6 speed trans and going to keep it, so I know a procharger would work the best. It will only be street driven and probably never see the track. I have a 12 bolt with 4:10 gears, suspension headers, y pipe 1 3/4 headers etc. I would have to rebuild my forged motor For boost plus upgrade my racetronics fuel pump, and change my gears. So should I spend all this money on a procharger ( f1a) for a upgraded motor later or should I go turbo and replace all my exaust. I live in Louisiana so I would keep my a/c if I go turbo but lately I'm confused on to which system to go with. Please help me make a decision with your builds and recommendations.
Procharger would work best with your setup. If you're going F1a then you'll need one of dans776 30mm cog bracket systems. With that setup you shouldn't have any belt slip or belt alignment issues at all.
317's will drop your compression a touch. Your going to be limited on boost by your compression....E-85 or race gas would be the only other way to run big boost. That being said having a higher compression motor, it would make pretty good numbers on lower boost levels. You could run a F1A or a D1SC. What kind of power are you looking to make?
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are you looking to run a specific ET or just light the tires on the street? and like said above, what are your power goals? does the "sleeper" factor make a differance (ie:noise)? are you wanting to be able to have multiple boost settings?
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I'd like to have 700 to the wheels if possible and just be a fast roll car for these gt 500's around here. I'll eat there lunch from a dead stop but from a roll they get me. I was thinking of a boost cam and get rid of my 5.3 heads and get some afr or some 235 trick flow heads for added power and compression drop. I'm wanting to run in the high nines or ten flat if I would go to the track. Mainly I want a fast roll car when I'm crusing around town. We don't race from a dig to much anymore.
16psi should get you around 700ish on a 347. I would deff swap heads to a little lower compression and I would also throw a methanol kit into the mix. It'll give you a little more leeway with boost. My car does some damage to most cobras and almost all GT-500's I've come across. The EPP or Brutespeed blower cam would work well too, a decent N/A cam sound with boost friendly specs. High 9's or low 10's isn't impossible but its going to be hard with a 6spd....you can do it but your going to need a better clutch and shift her like hell lol. Is it a a stock compression rebuild or what?
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No I have 5.3 heads to raise compression to 11.1- 11:3 around there. My only other option would built a bigger cubic inch motor, or spray what I have but my builder said I already have a bottom end that will handle 12 lbs of boost with meth. I know a turbo is the best for roll racing but not in a six speed if the turbos kick in at 3500 rpm. That's why I was considering a procharger cow boost low in the rpm band.
700 rwhp can easily be achieved with either a ProCharger or a turbo. A properly sized turbo is going to come in much sooner than 3500 rpm, so don't rule out going with a turbo. The ProCharger is going to be the easiest system to install, and you could keep your 4.10 gears with it. You can also keep your higher compression ratio and run methanol injection with it, as 700 rwhp and 11.0/1 compression with methanol injection is easily done with a ProCharger. Bob
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You're welcome! Bob
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