I would just make a realistic budget and try to stay some where close to it. It's easy to go off budget, I did on the NA 383 i did. Taking your time with this is not a bad thing. It took me 2-3 years on my NA 383.

 

Nope no budget. If it takes me 5 years to build the setup then it takes 5 years. I built my NA 355 on a "budget" and that got out of hand pretty quickly. But I had to do a handful of things twice since it was my first build. Tore the tranny out after 200 miles, rings didn't seat the first time, head gasket blew out on the ring change, and so on. As well as having to build 2 different exhaust setups since I changed my TA from a short arm to a long arm, now I'm on my 3rd setup.

I just don't want to limit myself on some things and wish I would have done "insert example here" the first time around. I know its going to be expensive, theres no way around that. Hell the blower setup is over $5k, now add heads, port job, custom cam, and a bullet proof bottom end and its over $10k already without adding the supporting mods to make it work right. I could build a turbo kit and make all of my own hot & cold side stuff and save some money, but I seem to have less and less time to do things for myself with work and life happening. At this point I'd rather pay someone who has built the kits and proven that they fit and work, but I always love saying that I built something when someone ask where I got that part.



Now for a technical question, what exactly is o ringing the block and when is it needed? I'm planning on running 15#+ of boost, will more than likely run the motor on e85 (if needed) and it will probably have a snow kit on it too (if needed)

 

BTW can someone tell me what seats are in the Turbo Camaro in the clip??

 

Thanks.

Here are a few...

With muffler:


Without muffler:


"55" mph:


"30" mph (yes... it has an air horn):

 

You can hear the F1 and BPV from a mile away!!! Good to see that you found your way to this board. Weird... I was just thinking about you the other day when I looked at the beer stein that you sent me.

Mitch

 

I'm running an F1A with an FMIC, no meth. It's running perfectly so far.
12-rib is a must, but definitely look into the SDCE setup. Alignment is absolutely key.
I sort of buzzed over everything, but I noticed someone mentioned injector size. I'm running 82# injectors on mine, and I'm sitting at 648 RWHP. If I were you, I'd be right up in my neighborhood for injector size.
My bottom end is Eagle crank, rods, SRP pistons. No Callies/bling parts, and they're doing the job just fine.

 

Thanks for the reply, I have thought about getting Eagle bottom end parts, but I'll see what happens when I start gathering parts. My car needs some more work before I'm ready to throw a 700 hp motor in it.


Thanks everyone for the replies. Me and my brother went over his build last night and hes decided to keep the carb and do a blow through setup, no intercooler, and e85. He has 2 stock 350s from early 90s chevy trucks and is planning on throwing 6-8 psi at them and see how they go. If the motor in his truck seems like its going to hold the power he is going to start building the 2nd motor he has sitting there. It will be a very basic setup, but that truck should move if it will hook

 

A 355ci TC76/78 or T76GTS will easily reach your goals.

 

^^^^^^^^^^^ If you decide to go turbo, go with this guy ^^^^^^^^^^^

 

I'm strongly considering doing something along these lines, but I'm having trouble sticking to something this early in the planning process. I also have thought a 383 with an 88, but I think that may be a bit much, but who knows, I'll PM you


Definitely, his turbo packages have always been an interest of mine and over the years his kits keep looking better and better

 

^ Absolutely. RealQuick has a huge following on LTXTech. For some reason the site is down at the moment, but you should check out some of his threads. He posts pics of his current projects, and is reasonable on cost. The quality of his work just keeps getting better.

 

Yup I go over there quite a bit, my username on there is Ninety5PoloZ I have been checking out some of the builds using his kits and keep going to his site to look at the kits.