Shownomercy

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I think he meant in general, my car made a measly 500hp on a dyno.

HellTeeOne

Speaking for myself, I used to track the car a lot more. But I got tired of breaking stuff. No fun when the car is down half the time undergoing expensive driveline repairs. These days I'd rather just drive it on the street and enjoy it.
I may track it again at some point to see what it is capable of, but I have little desire to flog it on the dragstrip on a regular basis.

ahritchie

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^So true.... The 1/4 mile tracks around here are basically closed to the public except for maybe 1 or 2 test and tune days a year at "The Rock" and Z-Max is now, they no longer have test and tunes, brag and drags, whatever...sucks living next to the "Belagio of dragstrips" that excludes all the locals.

The 1/8th mile tracks nearby are full of shady lowlifes and have shitty track prep and 7-8 seconds and 80+ MPH just does nothing for me...

sweetbmxrider

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Your trap speed and weight will tell much more than a dyno operator and a printout ever will.

SS RRR

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Eh, agree with the heads part, especially since it can increase total area under the curve, but disagree with the two being equally expensive unless one can find a set of used heads. Pretty sure one can get away with cam only and pay around a grand for everything including tune. When these cars were still new in the 90's that was one of the most popular installs to do after bolt-ons due to it being less expensive than having a set of heads ported.

hrcslam

LE1 heads are what $900 with springs and all? Cam only would be about that cost ($350-400 for the cam, $200 for valve springs complete, $300 for rockers, $100-150 for pushrods). Heads and cam, it's about $1600 ($1200 for LE1 heads cam package, $300 for rockers, $100-150 for pushrods). Give or take here and there for different parts of course. Both will need a tune.

So for $1000-1100 you get 30-50rwhp. For $500-600 more you get 80-100rwhp. That's a no brainer.

SS RRR

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Times have changed. On average head prices back then were in the 1500 to 2g's ballpark. Again, people weighed the options and it was cheaper to go cam first, and some went for heads later. This was before budget head porters were known to the LT1 world.

hrcslam

True true. I'm happy with the $/hp ratio of my LT1. I spent $4500 to get where I'm at Horsepower wise.

SpeedJunkee

FWIW, in the money you have just in suspension, you could have bought the blower kit I am selling for cheap and made GOBS more power.

I am asking $2800 for the kit. Put down just under 700 RWHP in my car.

Blackbirdws6

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Really....?

Shownomercy

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A maxed out D1, lots of meth and on a dynojet?

Possible.

Blackbirdws6

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I meant the suggestion of throwing a D1 on a basically stock LT.

SpeedJunkee

Big heads and cam through an M6 tranny and 3.42's, yes the blower was maxed out, and was done on pump gas and meth (not as much meth as you might think).

Point is he could have (and still can) buy my blower setup for about the same or less price he probably has in suspension alone and been quite far from being disappointed on the dyno.

SpeedJunkee

Not saying that's wise. Just pointing out with just a couple forged internals it could be done without spending a ton.

blk97z28

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This will be long long process...I'm in no rush for my car to be done and with blower I'd want custom cam, best heads all forged internals. When I do think I try to do it just once.

I'm about $1400 for my full suspension; exact is $1,455.

$365 (bilstein set of 4 shocks)
$300 (strano springs with custom black powder coat)
$100 (STB)
$200 (SFC's)
$150 (PHB)
$250 (LCA's)
$90 (LCA Brackets)