For all of you who are bashing him for a 6-speed with a 400+" motor and a 98mm turbo.. Wtf are you smoking? If a 6-speed supra can make a 7.91@18x pass with a 91mm strapped to it, I see zero issues with a big inch motor making killer power.

 

Supra is shifting at 9600rpm with 175shot big diffrence.

 

To the best of my knowledge they only spay that car out of the gate. Its really not much of a difference at all considering the displacement differences. Take the adders off and I would be anything the lsx make at least 175hp over the Supra.

 

Actually not really hoss. That 408 can rip it like that supra motor rips it but with out the spray and without the extra 1,600 rpms. The supra is a what, 186 or is it a 3.4 motor? I haven't kept up with it lately. Would, let's say 1,600 more rpms and a little spray make up for over 200 cubes?

This is really a completely moot point until there is more news on how the car is running. All the haters seem to run rampant here when there's nothing to hate on except a nice, clean, strong car getting dialed in on the dyno. Everyone just seems to find something they can pick at instead of saying, "hey man, congrats on getting it together and good luck with getting it dialed in".

**** what am I saying, ya know, everyone here is a career builder and runs 8s or 7s and I'm on jackstands.

 

Beat me to it with less wordage to boot!

 

P.S. Screw the haters man, your build is sick and I would imagine it would straight flip anyone who has been hating on it in this thread! I want to build a turbo stick car for street use for my next build.

 

Damn that car is going to be a handful! Very nice looking build. Congrats.

 

It kind of disappoints me a bit by some of the reactions I have gotten on here, especially considering I have posted this on a few all ford sites and have gotten literally nothing but thumbs up posts. Oh well, I prefer to let my car do most of the talking. It's going to have alot to say in the next few weeks.

As far as sw's car, it has only sprayed a 150 2nd-4th as far as I know. It's not just using the gas out oif the hole. That's irrelevant.

We are having no lag issues, and as soon as I get some street video out of her probably next week you'll see what I'm talking g about.

 

thanks bud.

 

fxxk the haters-

 

Congrats on getting her running Dom. I took a look at the car last time I dropped mine off. Can't wait to see some video of that beast. Don't listen to haters, your car will speak for itself.
Kirk

P.S. The Buick is still running like a champ.

 

When you do the video please get some of the boost gauge as it spools. I've done this with mine so I can give others a point of reference. I've found it very hard to find spool up videos. I need to go make some more of mine as well to show how it does on the 2 step.

I haven't really seen anyone hating on your setup just some oppinions. If you want to see hate on turbo setups click on search then type in STS

 

Sounds like a cool build, If you keep that thing spooled up you might be kickn some supra ***.

 

10-4 sir

 

Went and took her maiden voyage outside of the parking lot today! Heres a few pics before the details (note, it is still on the smaller 325/28 inch tires, it will be sitting on 315/30's when its ready to roll, annnddddd please ignore the fact that the car hasnt been washed in a year):











Now some details. I mentioned before that the car has no issue spooling, and Ill be damned if it doesnt roll out on the street. I kept it in second gear and started to roll into it at about 3,000, and romped it at 5,000. The car squats, *****, and gets. Not as much as a tire chirp. I shifted into third at about 7,500, and the car took off like a freight train with really 0 lag, even with my womanly grandma shift. Mike (the guy who physically put the car together) was just as impressed as I was. He also pointed out after we got on it that the car bleeds a surprisingly small amount of boost between shifts (and I was granny shifting pretty lazily). Ive ridden in alot of high horsepower cars (most notably a friends 1340whp clown shoe viper), and I can honestly say this is the only car that puckered my *** a bit. Not because it felt "dangerous" or "out of control", but because the amount of thrust was a bit ridiculous. It was almost shockingly easy to drive. The very slight lag in the turbo loads the suspension enough to where it is literally point and go. No trying to go sideways, no rolling burnouts, nothing. **** and get.

Another cool thing was that Ryan (shop owner and tuner) hasnt attempted much of a driveability aspect of the tune yet, and the car can drive around town and idle at every stop like a stock car at 800-1,000 rpm's. It still bucks a bit off idle when you get going, but through the gears and driving it drives like a stock camaro with a cam in it until you reach boost. We got some video of it on the shop camera but we couldnt find the cord this afternoon to put it online.

The car will go through its final touches this week and prep for a track visit maybe this coming weekend or the next. I want to at least get to the track once and spend a day before texas. I dont plan to do anything revolutionary as far as times its first few times out, but Id like to get a hang of it so I can at least run it and look respectable for the nationals. As far as the highway, the fact that the car is just so EASY to drive from a roll on had me grinning from ear to ear. From a 50 kick the car is a monster. I cant imagine it with a hit of gas.

More updates to come this week.

-Dom

 

i love it man, nothing wrong with getting a little sick and twisted with things.

 

Video stat!

 

Looks/sounds slow

 

+1 I'd like to see this thing in action

 

I'd love to see some videos too. I'm in the process of doing something similar soon. I've got the block, rotating assembly, and the turbo is on the way. I'm not sure how my turbo compares. I'll have to look that up. I'll be going with a TH400 on the other hand though.

EDIT: Looked it up. Yours is rated for an extra 100 hp more than mine.