Many of you know that we installed an STS turbo kit on my 2001 Z28 daily driver back last October. I was able to get it to the track once after the turbo install only to discover that my transmission was toast from previous track abuse and I ran slower and slower on every pass. At the beginning of November, we installed a stock rebuilt 4L60E (nothing special, just had the local tranny shop do it) and a Vigilante 2800 converter. The day after installing the trans, I broke my leg at our shootout and was out of commission for almost 5 months. Well, I finally got back to the track this weekend. A group of us from Thunder went to the National F-body Motorsports Event (www.fbody-event.org) in Memphis. I drove my car to Memphis from Baton Rouge late Thursday night (5.5 hour trip) and took it straight to the track the next morning. I pulled up to the line within 5 minutes of getting to the track and having made no changes to the car. I was running on 17 X 11" ZR1 wheels w/ BFG KD's...full interior.

First Pass: 11.80 @ 118.52 (1.92 60')

My previous best before the turbo was 12.25 @ 113.64 (1.83 60') ON DRAG RADIALS and SKINNIES, with the seats & swaybar off the car.

I was extatic with the car and backed up the 11.80 with about seven 11.77 - 11.79 passes, with MPH's up to 119.4...all in full street trim with street tires (approx 3620 lbs) Damn consistent for bracket racing...too bad I suck at cutting a light and was out in the first round

The next day I borrowed a set of used ET streets from a customer at the track and ran with those. My first time down the track on these I ran 11.467 @ 119.5 with a 1.69 60' I tried launching a little different on the converter and ran 11.518 @ 119.73. I didn't want to put too much abuse on a set of borrowed tires, so I returned them and went back to the radials. I ran a best of 11.76 @ 119.05 back on the KD's at noon.

As far as mods, the car has Thunder Racing 1-3/4 headers, ASP pulley, STS turbo kit w/ 5 lbs of boost and 3.42 gears. Completely stock 96,000 mile bottom end never been touched.

Needless to say, I am very happy with my tame 11 sec daily driver. We drove it back to Baton Rouge today and I'll drop off my kids to school in the morning. I'm also planning on getting a set of the MT ET Street Radials and trying those out soon at No Problem.

I think Bradley may have some video and I'll update my web page in the next day or two.


Angie

 

Good job man.

 

Way to go girl! Those are some good times I can't wait to get my new turbo set up on the track.

 

Sweet!!!!!!!!!

 

very nice bet that launch on boost feels great!

 

Nice times.

 

Bad ***........ Time to add some Meth or a FMIC and up the boost a lil to 7-8 psi and run some bottom 11's...
Kyle

 

Planning on it ....only after I take out the 96K short block and put in a built 371 or 409.

Angie

 

Those are great times for a stock car and a turbo at that weight. How is the tranny holding up with the power?

Bruce

 

The rebuilt tranny has been holding up fine. No shifting problems at all at the track or on the way home.

Angie

 

Awesome, glad you finally got to the track I remember way back when the kit was installed. LOL Sounds like my luck.

 

Now these are some good solid results everyone was looking for with the STS systems.

Good job!

 

Post this on cz28.com. There are some haters over there that think you went slower cuz of the sts kit, not because of your bad tranny.

 

Put on the front mount,run 8-10lbs and I bet you run 10's Even on the stock shortblock

 

Congrats!!!

I think this was more along the lines of what you were hoping for when you swapped to the turbo.

 

Yeah, but then I'd have to cut up my car, get rid of the A/C or something like that. This kit just bolted on in like 5-6 hours...no other changes to the car. It I was going to run a turbo setup for a pure race application, hell yeah, it would be in the front. The point of this is that it was very easy to install, very little tuning involved, no major suspension changes needed to get the car to hook up, and my stock rebuilt tranny seems to be holding it just fine.


Angie

 

Good job Angie!

 

I think he meant a front mount intercooler, not front mount turbo.

 

Congrats Angie. Great to see you again, and your car was indeed running great. So quiet, and faster than a lot of the loud thumpers out there. Memphis was great - perfect - this weekend.

I hear nitrous makes a great intercooler, no loss of A/C...

 

FMICs ROCK!!!

Even the STS can greatly benifit from one once you start boosting over 5psi. The IATs rise pretty damn fast.