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SeanPlunk 06-07-2010 09:06 AM

FWIW, I talked to a friend who just went turbo and he was lamenting his decision. The car has 100whp more than it did, but he says it's not nearly as fun to drive. He misses having the power available all the time. He said it he was doing it all over again he would put on a twin screw and be done with it.

94cobra69ss396 06-07-2010 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by SeanPlunk (Post 52927)
FWIW, I talked to a friend who just went turbo and he was lamenting his decision. The car has 100whp more than it did, but he says it's not nearly as fun to drive. He misses having the power available all the time. He said it he was doing it all over again he would put on a twin screw and be done with it.

What car and what did he have before? Brendan went from a Magnacharger to twin turbo on the GTO and loves the turbos.

SeanPlunk 06-07-2010 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by 94cobra69ss396 (Post 52931)
What car and what did he have before? Brendan went from a Magnacharger to twin turbo on the GTO and loves the turbos.

It's a 347ci Cobra like yours. He had a vortech on it and was making around 550 wheel. His new setup is a big single turbo and it makes well over 600wheel. The STS is a twin system and may not have the lag his car has.

Vettezuki 06-07-2010 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by SeanPlunk (Post 52932)
It's a 347ci Cobra like yours. He had a vortech on it and was making around 550 wheel. His new setup is a big single turbo and it makes well over 600wheel. The STS is a twin system and may not have the lag his car has.

I ran into a guy at the Chevron late one night. He had a gnarly TT STS on his C6 that had two stages: 1) 600WHP for going to the store 2) 1000 WHP for I don't know what. I don't know exactly how he had this setup. It was done at West Coast Corvette which certainly turns out some hi power Vettes.

He swore it didn't have any detectable lag.


I'd be into the Twin Screw, or more recent Eaton like on the ZR1, but none have an EO/CARB cert for the 2001 F Body. STS and Pro Charger are it.

SeanPlunk 06-07-2010 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Vettezuki (Post 52939)
I ran into a guy at the Chevron late one night. He had a gnarly TT STS on his C6 that had two stages: 1) 600WHP for going to the store 2) 1000 WHP for I don't know what. I don't know exactly how he had this setup. It was done at West Coast Corvette which certainly turns out some hi power Vettes.

He swore it didn't have any detectable lag.


I'd be into the Twin Screw, or more recent Maggie, but none have an EO/CARB cert for the 2001 F Body. STS and Pro Charger are it.

I'd go STS then :bigthumbsup:

Vettezuki 06-07-2010 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by jsup (Post 52914)
STS is involved with a test of a rear mount turbo system for a C3. Maybe you'd want to contact them.

The issue is keeping it all under the stock hood. If you don't care about that, should be easy.

I don't think they'd be that interested in my C3 because mine is a full LSx swap, not a Gen I SBC. But I sent them a note anyway.

enkeivette 06-07-2010 08:30 PM

Just buy the kit for the Camaro and cut the C3 stuff out of the way till it fits.

Vettezuki 06-07-2010 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by enkeivette (Post 52979)
Just buy the kit for the Camaro and cut the C3 stuff out of the way till it fits.

I'mma guess'n some things should NOT but cut off . . . :uh:

blackax 06-07-2010 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Vettezuki (Post 52939)
I ran into a guy at the Chevron late one night. He had a gnarly TT STS on his C6 that had two stages: 1) 600WHP for going to the store 2) 1000 WHP for I don't know what. I don't know exactly how he had this setup. It was done at West Coast Corvette which certainly turns out some hi power Vettes.

He swore it didn't have any detectable lag.


I'd be into the Twin Screw, or more recent Eaton like on the ZR1, but none have an EO/CARB cert for the 2001 F Body. STS and Pro Charger are it.

http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/forced...ail-order.html

The post is a little old but I hope it helps.

Roots supercharger is the way to go all that low down grunt cant be beat.

SeanPlunk 06-08-2010 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by blackax (Post 52986)
http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/forced...ail-order.html

The post is a little old but I hope it helps.

Roots supercharger is the way to go all that low down grunt cant be beat.

Except by a twin screw blower. Even a TVS Roots blower (4 lobe/160degree) is not as efficient as a twin screw.



That's at lower boost levels too. The difference only goes up as the boost does.


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