Hey all,
I have finally gotten myself out of the financial slump that graduating college left me... $100 to my name was tough to build from haha!
I also got the mod bug again with the car, so that's not helping things either!
I have a more-or-less complete build list in my "blog" (only entry) for those that are curious. The pertinent mods to this discussion:
- 3.7L w/ DR street grind cams (272's I think?)
- Stage III heads with TD05 manifolds
- 2.5" hot side piping, 3.5" cold side piping
- I will have a 3.5" throttlebody/manifold
I want to build the ultimate street car. JRink had a 3.5L with 16g's and it made some awesome power and had great spool response. I want to build something similar, but there have got to be better turbos out there to pair up with my engine. I am currently hitting full boost around 5000 with a rev limit to 8... which for me is fine, but I don't want it to be any worse than that. There are definitely some deficiencies in my setup too, but I will address those when I get the engine out this summer.
My questions are as follows:
1. My current 20G turbos have a 2.25" inlet and 2" outlet. My piping is 2.5"... do you think that the slowing of the air velocity is hurting the car? It may be a moot point, but I am trying to build everything to work as one cohesive unit, so little details like that are important to me.
2. What turbos should I look at maybe upgrading to? I will probably live in the low 20's boost unless I make the switch to e85, but even then, probably just high 20's boost. But truly, its about airflow (goes back to question 1), not boost pressure in my book. More air I can pump in, and the quicker I can get it out, the more power I make.
So, really just looking for some opinions here. I don't know as much as I would like about all the different turbos out in the world, but in my "perfect" world in my head, I would have a 3" inlet, 2.5" outlet, and would hit full boost by 4000rpm's and let em' scream until 8000 rpm's.
For the sake of argument, assume I have fuel, intercooler, and any other supporting mod you could need to hit whatever power the turbos can provide
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