Ok, having been a mod myself, i know how pissed you get for people not using the search, well i looked and didnt find anything to quell my question...

As you know we're working on probably the most sought after project for these vehciles, but when thats done, whats next? (btw, can anyone think of a better project name than "boosted stock and born to rock?")

I wanna try and make anything, my problem being that i can make what i know, and since i dont technically own one, what are your weak points, what could be modded to fit, etc.. i.e. strut tower braces, 4-links... in other words, i wanna make something to help out, but i dont know what.

 

belly pan

 

Project had one. I'm still waiting on some hardcore INTAKE R&D. There is obviously power to be ha here (If Jerriko is any indication...). I plan on doing a few things myself (if I can ever get my piece running like it should. How about 3800 II thirdgen motor mounts (might be all the craze ).

 

Actually, how about -

1) Turbo Kits (duh)
2) New motor brackets, to allow the use of Poly V8 Motor Mounts
3) Adjustable Fuel Pressure Regulator for the V6
4) Headers - longtubes and shorties
5) Supercharger Kits
6) A catback that is something OTHER than Dynomax (V knows what I'm talking about!)
7) A new friggen' intake!! This may be the next one we do, after the turbos. We have NOTHING for the MPFI systems! I'm not talking a new plenum, either - new base, runners, and plenum! Something to FLOW that newfound air!
8) '749 swap harness from MAF (302) system
9) '749 swap harness from MAP (730) system
10) I'd like to see brand new heads, but that may end up as selling ported stockers, until we get some serious fund flow.


Man, that's just 10 off the top of my head. VP's got a lot of work to do!

 

Throttle body too!

 

For the fuel pressure reg you can use the V8 one like I did.
I even have a few pic's of it on my car domain site, the 2.8 fuel rail is whats under the BBK fuel pressure reg in the pics.
I think some one needs to sell preped and ready to go (in a V6) small jornal SBC H beam connecting rods.
Heads would be nice, the stock ones flow good in the exhaust side but barely suck on the intake side.
We need a new casting or some severly augmented stock heads,
one project for 05' is to make a pair of super ported, taller intake ported, bigger valved, small 5/16'' intake valve stem, dubble quinch paded, figure 8 or heart shaped combustion chamber heads.
To help 2.8 and 3.1 type intakes flow a little better you can make a plenum spacer for the upper and lower plenum I made some there about 3/4'' thick. The air has to do a all most 150 degree turn to go into the lower plenum I just made it so it can straighten out for a bit then make 2 not nearly as sharp turns.

 

Intake
oil baffeled pan for auto-x
a true round STB for v6 *maily this*
I like the motor mount idea


Alot, but not all v8 stuff will work on ours like any suspension part but springs, AFPR, radiator, fans, etc.

 

New heads
intake
supercharger kits (to give an option intstead of turbo)
throttle body

 

6) A catback that is something OTHER than Dynomax (V knows what I'm talking about!)

Get the SLP exhaust for the LS1..it should fit, only thing you should need to do is move the clamps around. Atleast that is what I have read in posts about it.

Dave

 

If I ever wanted to just give money away it would be for R&D for alot of those things, especially the turbo kit, headers, and intake. I feel there can be gains from a new style intake, not to mention an appearance upgrade from ugly cross flow stocker.

 

Dale, what do you mean by a true round STB?

I agree w/Doward about the heads; say someone did make a set of heads, and charge $1000 for 'em. Well... you could probably have a well-known shop do an amazing job on the heads for $500.

Too bad AGood2.8's been banned; wasn't he working on one hell of an intake?

 

Tom, the only STB I have seen installed on a v6 car was the eldabrock TPI one, shimmed up to clear the TB. It then sometimes hits the hood. This STB is also square tubing, not round.

After doing some reading, the force applied to an stb, the material needs to be made round, rather then square. But anything is better then nothing

So I would like to see a STB made for the v6, out of round tubing.

However, I am currently waiting (guy said it would be 2 weeks tell he was back to his car) dimensions from another stb I found. I am thinking it might clear everything, and is round. I hope so

Agoods intake was that the upper 1/3 was all custom made to fit his 62mm TB. The middle section was ported to I belive 1.375 (stock is 1.00-1.06). He said that is the largest you can go w/o having problems. Myself found that porting to that size would require hand made gaskets.

 

I believe he was making a new plenum - not a whole new intake. We're going to start groundwork on a whole new base/runner/plenum.

Think Mini Mini Ram

 

"What parts would you like for your cars?"

Free Parts

 

essentially the best things to see for our cars are the ones that are in the works right now....dowards turbo, a good working intake, new heads, the only true benefit would be a more effecient wedge, possibly higher compression w/o the problems associated with shaving them, larger intake valves, possibly a slightly larger exhaust valve, and them beign setup to use full roller rockers w/o modification to use the sbc ones as i believe 614 streets did....a supercharger back on the market, not roots either, (although it's cool, its kinda not my style) would like to centrifigal.....guess that's about it, oh, how about a shift kit that's designed to help shifts for perfered performance w/ the reving range and power range of the six? i know for a fact that my 700r4, w/ the better boost valve, trans go kit, and vette servo will shift like a sob, however it does these shifts waaaay to high at WOT to make it really funcitonal for racing...for fun yes, racing....no.

sorry, re-read what i typed...i didn't mean that the heads are in progress right now....just it justkinda got ran in the mix. dow and tech smurf...good work on those turbo setups, really hoping we can see those things running boosted, and kickin ****.

 

Coming soon to a theater near you -

Turbo V6s whooping up on V8s!

It's slowly becoming a reality.

 

Not roots? I wouldn't go for a centrifugal. These engines need power down low which you won't get from a centrifugal. Best would be to go with a screw type.

 

you pick up a lot of torque with a centrifigul too! roots style SCs are available for our car...not readily but they used to make them and sometimes you can still find them.

I WANT intake SPACERS!!

 

how many spacers? one phenolic at the base between lower and middle? or 2 spacers.. or new revised intake with a spacer?

 

new intake would be nice too but the spacers that i am refering to would be...between middle and upper and possibly a TB spacer too. the lower and middle spacers would be hard to do because of the way that the fuel rail is mounted.

 

I'm just talking about at lower rpms. Centrifugal doesn't start producing until higher rpms.

 

centrifiguls are spinning/blowing any time the engine is turning. it all depends on your setup as to how many rpms it has to turn to make FULL boost but any boosted engine will make a whole lot more torque than it would n/a. centrifigul SCs will blown into the intake at idle but may not make 12 psi boost until 2,000 or 2,500 rpms in some cases. i've got a friend who has a roots style blower on his car (not a camaro or bird) and with his current setup, only making 3 psi boost because of other mods, it doesn't hit 3 psi until about 2,000 rpms.

 

Ya, I guess it depends on your set up. But since a centrifugal is nonfixed-displacement, on a "standard" set up you wouldn't be making a lot of boost at lower rpms.