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Old Aug 3, 2004 | 10:34 PM
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turbo tbi or tpi

Im thinking about turbocharging (maybe twin turbo) my L03 but I heard that its better/easier when its done on a tpi setup. Should i just buy the used tpi setup with a LT1 cam and tpi heads? If itll be the same on my tbi what mods should i do to get it to run to full potential and how much will they cost? thanks for the help
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Old Aug 3, 2004 | 10:39 PM
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Welcome to the baords! You will find that turboing any TBI set-up is not worth it in the long run. There are tuning limitations with the stock ECM because of the inability to accuratly make corrections on boost. I would not even bother with TPI either. It sucks just as bad as TBI when it boils down to it. I would spend the money that you would use on your turbo set-up to get chip burning equiptment along with a nice heads and cam set-up. I think you will be much happier.
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Old Aug 4, 2004 | 10:52 AM
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Shiftycapone i saw your 90' rs on your site. it looks nice as hell. did you run it on the 1/4? what was your time?
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Old Aug 4, 2004 | 03:40 PM
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Originally posted by racleon
Shiftycapone i saw your 90' rs on your site. it looks nice as hell. did you run it on the 1/4? what was your time?
I never ran the car because I wanted to avoid a 16 sec timeslip in stock trim. I waited till I had every bolt on and a little chip work in hoping I could at least pull off a high 14 sec pass. Well I did all that but I wrecked the car literally 15 hours before track time and has since sat for over 1.5 years now while I put her back together.
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