Rear Mount Turbo
If you have stock manifolds (wrapped) and a COMPLETELY wrapped hot-side, and STILL had lag issues, then you must have accidentally installed the kit on your 3.4l Fiero. I have a friend with a rear mount t76gts (kinda big for a rearmount), 346ci, wrapped LONGTUBES, and a wrapped hotside, and he sees 15lbs by 3800rpms.
And roots super-chargers do suck. In fact, my friend (and fabricator) just did some tuning on his cobra. It only made 507hp/479ft to the tires on Whipple's own dyno. He has a cold air intake, cut-outs, and ported STOCK EATON blower. What a turd. 3 mods and hello bottom 11s.....wait, he already went 11.60 before he ported the blower.
It is a shame that some members might read your posts and actually think there is truth to them.
[QUOTE=FieroZ34;8889830]I guess I expected a kit to come complete when it arrived at my doorstep, that way I didn't have to do it all myself. I'm fully capable, look at my website, there is no kit about what's on my Fiero. But I bought a kit so that I wouldn't have to. I was less than impressed. A 5.7l V8 with 10psi should be tapping on 11s, not getting walked by a high 12 second Corvette.
my car at 9lbs of boost ran a 11.6 so it is obvious to us all that the common denomenator on your set up is YOU!!! i have full boost by 3200 rpm right where the converter flashes, its in the set up for any car, just like your fiero.
you can hate all you want but the facts are rear mount cars work, they are here to stay and nothing you say will change that. get over it
my car at 9lbs of boost ran a 11.6 so it is obvious to us all that the common denomenator on your set up is YOU!!! i have full boost by 3200 rpm right where the converter flashes, its in the set up for any car, just like your fiero.
you can hate all you want but the facts are rear mount cars work, they are here to stay and nothing you say will change that. get over it
You are such a tool, TRUST me you don't want me to point him to this thread (he is a member here too), because you will get sooooo school in turbo and engine theory its not even funny. Look at how many members with 10 and 11 second cars are in this thread bashing you. I bet you are like 19yrs old.
And why should I drive an OFI car? My own 700+ wheel Hp car is just fine with me, plus it sees full boost if I sneeze on the throttle.
my car at 9lbs of boost ran a 11.6 so it is obvious to us all that the common denomenator on your set up is YOU!!! i have full boost by 3200 rpm right where the converter flashes, its in the set up for any car, just like your fiero.
you can hate all you want but the facts are rear mount cars work, they are here to stay and nothing you say will change that. get over it
you can hate all you want but the facts are rear mount cars work, they are here to stay and nothing you say will change that. get over it
What converter are you talking about? Because nothing like that happens at 3200rpm on my Fiero.
They work, just not well.
let me give you the rest of the story seeing how you need specifics.
DA 2500 --- 2.1 60ft cant launch in boost due to no two step yet
now with your all nowing brain you can see the car is probably a low 11 -high 10 car with the correct set up to launch, not the kits fault, i havent bought the items to launch it with. also for your brain to chew on a built 347 doesnt produce more power actually it makes less power due to the low compression, i only run 9 lbs until i can upgrade the fuel system to handle the 12-15 psi plan on running. sweet dreams cupcake.
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So properly installed means redoing the entire kit? It should come out of the box "proper," not I have to spend $1000 to get it to spool decent. And FWIW, my exhaust was wrapped. The lag still sucked.
Roots superchargers are simply amazing. That's why every Cobra owner's 3rd mod is replacing it.
Roots superchargers are simply amazing. That's why every Cobra owner's 3rd mod is replacing it.
This complete kit stuff you keep bringing up is bullshit, when you bought the kit you should have known every single piece that comes in the kit... And yes, it is enough, minus injectors and fuel pump to work. But to their defense it will run on stock fuel pumps and sometimes even on stock injectors, definitely not recommended, but at the lowest boost levels it will work.
Of course it can be made better, find me an off the shelf kit of any variety that you cant add something here or there to make better. Sure the STS setup isn't perfect, but they don't advertise it as something its not. I think your car had something wrong with it, could be a million things, but the vast majority of us have working setups.
Of course it can be made better, find me an off the shelf kit of any variety that you cant add something here or there to make better. Sure the STS setup isn't perfect, but they don't advertise it as something its not. I think your car had something wrong with it, could be a million things, but the vast majority of us have working setups.
haha, very true, but it now is the turbo scene for those cars, I don't mean to jack the thread, but hardened valves and dual springs, why, thought these engines were amazing. Im not trying to be a smartass, but it sounds like I can bolt a turbo on a Stang and be much cheaper. I really wanted an LS1 to boost.
Making a blanket statement saying "rear mounts suck" is pretty easy to do without backing it up.
Do rear mounts suck? Of course not. They add horsepower. Is it going to be as effective as a huge front mount single on a race car? Well of course not.
Can they still make a ****-ton of power and make your sled move out pretty quickly? Yep.
If your Lt1 POS got waxed by a stock LS1 vette I'd say it's either time to admit you fucked something up or look into the DRIVER MOD.
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FieroZ34 I banned you once for trolling up threads and warned you that if you returned to your old ways, that the next ban would be permanent, lata.
Locking this one too, this topic has been covered many times before
Locking this one too, this topic has been covered many times before
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