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daily driver beast. I have a 02 ramair TA m6, I want to bulletproof the engine, add a turbo and nitrous. Also do heads, headers, cam, tuning, fuel system, suspension, clutch, tranny, rear end, wheels and tires, and brakes. With this I want around at least 750 HP but would like to end up at around a 1000. Is this possible to do and still drive it around town and on the highway or not. If not should I tone it down some and just shoot for around 500 HP if so how.
It can be done with the right setup. I have a customer with an LT1 car that daily drives his and is making 987rwhp. Don't see any reason why those #'s couldn't be duplicated. Its not cheap by any means though, but can be done.
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More importantly, on a street car, its important to be able to use that power. Putting that on power on the ground in your daily driver on the street will be near im possible. 1000 rwhp is no joke. Unless you dont care about going fast and just want a dyno queen.
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Originally Posted by nvrstsfd23
yeah I,m figuring about 20 gs to do it. my goal is to have a badass daily driver that with the right setup will be as bad as I want on the street or the strip.
$20K might do it...... Ill have $25K in my new setup and thats not including what ive bought and sold and lost $$$ on....
And ill have about $6.5 left after that.... and thats NOT including the price of the car.....
Kyle
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Bolt a blower kit on your car. You'll be amazed how fast it is. I don't like going WOT in my car if I havn't been to the bathroom in a while, and I've had a 700+ RWHP car for a couple of years. I don't think you've really grasped just how fast that much power is.
shoot........STOP NOW......before it's too late!! 
i'm putting my car together now and here's some item's to give you an idea of what you might be looking at.....
Slightly used 427 SBC with Dart block and Dart 18* heads, and Accel Gen 7 DFI.......$11,000 (VERY GOOD DEAL)
Mildly built Coan TH400 for now with RMVB and linelock......$1250 (good deal, but will have to upgrade soon)
Neal Chance converter, slightly used.......$950 (good deal)
Billingsley Fab9 with all the goodies......$3400 (with 10% 0ff)
New Aeromotive fuel system and Earls ProLite hoses..........$2000 (that's with 10% off too)
Custom 321 SS turbo headers and 304 SS tubing back to SS Borla mufflers.....$4500 (good deal again)
the rest of the custom Twin Turbo system........$4000+ est.
New Bogart big and littles with slicks and skinnies.......$1700 (yet another good deal)
Strange brakes front and rear.........$1600
ProFab c/m front end with QA1, BMR, and Wolfe suspension components.......$2600
VFN carbon fiber hood.......$1300
and tons and tons of misc. items and labor..........$10,000+ est.
car itself.........$21,000 (2 yrs. ago)
so have fun, and either set a limit for yourself (Impossile) or get out now while you still can!!! 
later,
Dave
i'm putting my car together now and here's some item's to give you an idea of what you might be looking at.....
Slightly used 427 SBC with Dart block and Dart 18* heads, and Accel Gen 7 DFI.......$11,000 (VERY GOOD DEAL)
Mildly built Coan TH400 for now with RMVB and linelock......$1250 (good deal, but will have to upgrade soon)
Neal Chance converter, slightly used.......$950 (good deal)
Billingsley Fab9 with all the goodies......$3400 (with 10% 0ff)
New Aeromotive fuel system and Earls ProLite hoses..........$2000 (that's with 10% off too)
Custom 321 SS turbo headers and 304 SS tubing back to SS Borla mufflers.....$4500 (good deal again)
the rest of the custom Twin Turbo system........$4000+ est.
New Bogart big and littles with slicks and skinnies.......$1700 (yet another good deal)
Strange brakes front and rear.........$1600
ProFab c/m front end with QA1, BMR, and Wolfe suspension components.......$2600
VFN carbon fiber hood.......$1300
and tons and tons of misc. items and labor..........$10,000+ est.
car itself.........$21,000 (2 yrs. ago)
so have fun, and either set a limit for yourself (Impossile) or get out now while you still can!!!
later,
Dave
Last edited by PRAY HRD; Mar 1, 2005 at 10:35 PM.
yea no ****! i've never added it up before, but somehow that's the exact same figure my wife keeps telling me it's gonna cost...i'll just pretend you didn't say that so i don't have to tell her she's right. lol. and i still have to freshen the motor and have new pistons dropped in to bring down my 10.5:1CR to a more turbo friendly one and fully port the heads......there's another $3000. and when i step up to either a Rossler or TSI TH400, that'll be another $4500 roughly.
it all adds up. i have a bonafied addiction. no, i'm not kidding. i can't stop nor will i til this car is done. it's almost cost my marriage a couple times because this is not the fist setup i've done on this car. i have put in nearly $20,000 besides all that and changed my mind and sold it all for about a 50-75% loss depending on the part. that's always getting thrown in my face, but for good reason because i haven't bought us a house yet. i've bought 3 camaros, 1 mint, 1 somewhat set up for racing, and one shell, all within 2 years. i've taken big loss' on ALL of them, mostly because i change my mind all the damn time. anyone know a good shrink????????????????????
later,
Dave
it all adds up. i have a bonafied addiction. no, i'm not kidding. i can't stop nor will i til this car is done. it's almost cost my marriage a couple times because this is not the fist setup i've done on this car. i have put in nearly $20,000 besides all that and changed my mind and sold it all for about a 50-75% loss depending on the part. that's always getting thrown in my face, but for good reason because i haven't bought us a house yet. i've bought 3 camaros, 1 mint, 1 somewhat set up for racing, and one shell, all within 2 years. i've taken big loss' on ALL of them, mostly because i change my mind all the damn time. anyone know a good shrink????????????????????
later,
Dave
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I have a something to say about project cars...... there never done once you think your done something breaks or you want to do something else to it. everones gotta have a money pit might as well be transportation. you can never have a car that tooo fast!
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what did fash00 mean with that post, I think I've got a pretty good plan to make a pretty good street car that can hang. I feel you pain pray, I planning on reaquiring a 3rd gen iroc and make it a track car that can be driving on short cruises, I want it to make my finished TA look weak. This is gonna get expensive. Anyone got some money I can have.
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Originally Posted by ferariguy3
what kind of gas milage can be expected by having a 800HP street moster?...or the gas milage of that 987HP car?
A 987 RWHP car isn't doing that consistently on pump gas, so when it makes 987 to the ground he's running C16, probably getting on it a lot, and I'm betting doesn't give 2 hoots about what his gas mileage is.