Hey Bob Wooten
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Car: 2000 Trans Am
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Hey Bob Wooten
I was looking at your webpage. I didnt realize how much room is under your hood!! Why dont you just start building your own set of turbo headers?!?! Do what I just did and buy some stainless from Burns just up the coast from you. Get with a friend who can weld stainless worth a ****, and build some headers!!
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I am workin on it. i'm gettin' older & dont move as fast as i used to ('specially with the kids & all).
the way i see it I have three viable choices right now. the first is that i just bite the bullet & do my own completely from scratch. Second is get the Turbo Tech header & build the rest of the system & third is to get a set of shorty headers, cut the flanges off of them, weld on turbo mtg flanges, turn them upside down & stick them in.
truth be told, i am in limbo right now. I am working with George @ Turbo Tech to get one of his headers to stick into it & see how it fits. if it fits then it just became quite a bit simpler. I have a buddy with a 3rd gen, and a 1st gen, that i am going to stick it in, to see how many cars this thing will fit. I will post when i know more about the fittment into the other body styles. I am hoping that it will fit into more than just one body style & if not it will, with a small tweak.
I think that i am going to do this in stages (mostly cause of $$$$$). Stage 1, use the Turbo Tech header & see if i cant do this w/o blowing the car to pieces. stage two goto a twin, or step up to a killer single.
stage 1 is not going to require a ton of $ or time. stage 2 is. I am hoping that i can throw the turbo on, tune it in & slap down some good times/HP. there is a good possibility that by the time i get to stage 2 that i will get some sponsors & be able to step up the program.
I am moving forward though. thanks for the input. I just came back from the track this weekend & finally have the car hooking up. now it is time for a real converter & more horspower.
what you have there is pretty much what i was thinking for the upside down header idea. I think that i mentioned this before, but JBA is right down the street from my house, so I was going to see if a set of thier shorties would work for the upside down trick. they make both SS & mild Steel, so material should not be an issue. They dont even want to talk about a custom setup, they are making TOO much money on the Cat4ward stuff to want to take a single person off of the production line for custom stuff. they are throwing up the "bring me $10,000 & a month" kind of a wall to see if i want to climb over it, NOT.
Bob
you are pretty handy with that solid works. 'zat what you do for a day job?
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71 Camaro, 91 EFI
r71chevy@earthlink.net
www.r71camaro.homestead.com
the way i see it I have three viable choices right now. the first is that i just bite the bullet & do my own completely from scratch. Second is get the Turbo Tech header & build the rest of the system & third is to get a set of shorty headers, cut the flanges off of them, weld on turbo mtg flanges, turn them upside down & stick them in.
truth be told, i am in limbo right now. I am working with George @ Turbo Tech to get one of his headers to stick into it & see how it fits. if it fits then it just became quite a bit simpler. I have a buddy with a 3rd gen, and a 1st gen, that i am going to stick it in, to see how many cars this thing will fit. I will post when i know more about the fittment into the other body styles. I am hoping that it will fit into more than just one body style & if not it will, with a small tweak.
I think that i am going to do this in stages (mostly cause of $$$$$). Stage 1, use the Turbo Tech header & see if i cant do this w/o blowing the car to pieces. stage two goto a twin, or step up to a killer single.
stage 1 is not going to require a ton of $ or time. stage 2 is. I am hoping that i can throw the turbo on, tune it in & slap down some good times/HP. there is a good possibility that by the time i get to stage 2 that i will get some sponsors & be able to step up the program.
I am moving forward though. thanks for the input. I just came back from the track this weekend & finally have the car hooking up. now it is time for a real converter & more horspower.
what you have there is pretty much what i was thinking for the upside down header idea. I think that i mentioned this before, but JBA is right down the street from my house, so I was going to see if a set of thier shorties would work for the upside down trick. they make both SS & mild Steel, so material should not be an issue. They dont even want to talk about a custom setup, they are making TOO much money on the Cat4ward stuff to want to take a single person off of the production line for custom stuff. they are throwing up the "bring me $10,000 & a month" kind of a wall to see if i want to climb over it, NOT.
Bob
you are pretty handy with that solid works. 'zat what you do for a day job?
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Bob Wooten
71 Camaro, 91 EFI
r71chevy@earthlink.net
www.r71camaro.homestead.com
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It sounds like a pretty good idea to me. I mean, if that header will work it should be able to support like 700hp or something close to that. I know a guy with one of turbo tech's LT1 kits and he put down 630rwhp so its quite possible with that header. Im sure it will be a lot easier to fit on your camaro then a 3rd gen. Hell, even the impala one may be a good bet for you too. Whatever works.
Good luck and let us know.
When are you getting the header?
In all honesty, I could buy the header now but Id prefer my own headers since I have aspirations for something even bigger than a T76 down the road but thats not until I can secure a better block than a factory 400. lol
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Good luck and let us know.
When are you getting the header?
In all honesty, I could buy the header now but Id prefer my own headers since I have aspirations for something even bigger than a T76 down the road but thats not until I can secure a better block than a factory 400. lol
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a few mods
this years goal: 10.50 @ 130+ mph
-=ICON Motorsports=-
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Thanks for the thoughts. I am not exactly sure when i am going to get the header. I have to call George up & see how it is coming.
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71 Camaro, 91 EFI
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www.r71camaro.homestead.com
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71 Camaro, 91 EFI
r71chevy@earthlink.net
www.r71camaro.homestead.com
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