Let's beat a dead horse and talk intakes
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Let's beat a dead horse and talk intakes
I'm adding a more boost friendly cam onto my '99 procharged, but stock internal ls1 and turning up the boost on the D1 to ~8psi. If I can figure out a cheapish head to run I'll be doing that as well. Currently I've got an ls1 intake with egr block off, should I just stick with the ls1 intake or switch it to something else (ls6, fast, etc)?
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Either way I definitely want to do the cam, would the 853s and ls1 intake not be that big of a problem?
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I think some 799s or 243s would be good just don't expect much in gains. If your doing it as more of a refresh than for power it makes sense. Ls6 intakes are nice but everyone wants top dollar for them. With what you have I'd have your heads rebuilt, valve job and turn up the boost a bit.
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Spending money on unnecessary parts to increase your power completely defeats the purpose of adding boost to overcome the need to spend lots of money on parts to increase your power...
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edit: Also going to do the 8-rib conversion which isn't necessary at my target boost levels, but will be nice to have in a year or so.
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I have complete ls6 intake 280$ Without TB, shipped if u intersting pm me!
btw my turbo build is 5.3 stock bottom end ls9 cam ls6 intake GT45 11 psi
Will go to dyno these couple of days
btw my turbo build is 5.3 stock bottom end ls9 cam ls6 intake GT45 11 psi
Will go to dyno these couple of days
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You don't want to spend a ton of money with expensive heads, intake, long tubes, stroker kits, solid roller, roller rockers, etc, so you go with boost.
Then you decide "I don't want to run much boost, I'll just go buy some of that other stuff instead".
I get extremely perplexed when someone says "I just want low boost". But why? Why is everyone so afraid to run a slightly higher boost number, and would rather spend $2000 on head/cam/intake on parts to run 4 PSI less boost to make the exact same power.
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Do you not see the duality of this?
You don't want to spend a ton of money with expensive heads, intake, long tubes, stroker kits, solid roller, roller rockers, etc, so you go with boost.
Then you decide "I don't want to run much boost, I'll just go buy some of that other stuff instead".
I get extremely perplexed when someone says "I just want low boost". But why? Why is everyone so afraid to run a slightly higher boost number, and would rather spend $2000 on head/cam/intake on parts to run 4 PSI less boost to make the exact same power.
You don't want to spend a ton of money with expensive heads, intake, long tubes, stroker kits, solid roller, roller rockers, etc, so you go with boost.
Then you decide "I don't want to run much boost, I'll just go buy some of that other stuff instead".
I get extremely perplexed when someone says "I just want low boost". But why? Why is everyone so afraid to run a slightly higher boost number, and would rather spend $2000 on head/cam/intake on parts to run 4 PSI less boost to make the exact same power.
So my thought was if boost is a measurement of restriction and does not equate to overall power then in theory I should make more power by increasing flow with cnc ported heads, boost specific cam and high flow intake while keeping the boost at a pump gas friendly level.
Plus I bought all these parts used so I saved a considerable amount of coin lol.
I've always operated under the premise that an internal combustion engine is just an air pump so the more you can move the more power it will make.
I'm open minded about this btw so if I'm wrong I can take it lmao.