Yeah, basic bolt ons plus a cam and a good tune that sounds more like it
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I used to think the same thing about mine. It always seemed a little more beasty compared to other LTs. I mean seriously man I know of some major slouch LT1s. Last time I seen mine it was on a trailer, being sold wrecked for about $2500. The guy told me he was going to rebuild it, because honestly it was mostly cosmetic damage, but maybe some frame damage who knows. Wonder if he ever did rebuild it.
Had potential!
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Ricer altezas!!!
Yup, definitely not those, close, but totally different design. I forgot what they were called, but the company doesn't make them anymore..
Jesus enough of the LT1 is crap stuff. If the shortblock is stout..have the heads ported and throw in a cam. I made 390ish rwhp on home ported heads and a cc306 cam. My stock rear lasted with my M6 until I put in a dana s60 and I ran DRs for about 30k miles. I think I had about 3k into my heads/cam/headers etc oh and I never had a opti fail but I did replace it when I did the cam swap.
If you can do the work yourself it will be much cheaper!
it takes alot more than most would try..................:rolf
my first lt1 was fine with 150-175 shot for more than 100 passes on it(and 120,000 miles) with completely stock motor it would run mid 13s natural,and 12.0s on the kit.
I ported some heads myself(the famous 30 minute port job)and put a baby cam(211/219@050) and the car ran mid 12s natural and went 11.1-11.2 on the "small" shot.
FINALLY kicked a rod out when i started trying to hit it with 300ish on the heads/cam setup. car was over 4000lbs raceweight
RPM is the real killer of these motors. spray CAN be safe.
I turned my 200k motor to 6900 and it loved every minute :-D It was on the original opti at the time of the cam swap at 180k. I dropped the fucker and broke it when going to put it back on so it got a fresh one, LOL
Lt1 motors have potential just do your research! I have AI heads and Cam and my car made some pretty good numbers, it was on a built short block. On a pretty mild street set up with a small shot nitrous my car made just south of 600 rwhp and a little north of 700 rwtq.
LT1's aren't crap their just slow no matter how much $$ you put into them.
If you want to modify it without breaking your bank, you should do it on your own so that you can save more. But the disadvantage is you should have time and effort to make updates in your exhaust.
Hahahaha this has got to be one of the dumbest things i have ever heard! If you ever want to put your car against a SLOW LT1 give me a shout I am ready when u are! To the person who created this thread don't listen to this guy he's all shown us he knows absolutely nothing!
I'm still waiting on his excuse to not put bus lengths on my slow bolt on vette!Quote:
No one ever listens to nan...ever
Maybe if he doesn't dodge me like he did dave he can also run Matt's slow LT1 car right after. To be fair I think Matt should leave the bottle unhooked though. The weather Sat looks pretty good!:thumbsup
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People here get trolled by nan on a daily basis.
Its hilarious.
Not personal and on BCM stock doesn't mean shit! My "stock" ls7 is stock in the fact that it came from the factory with a cam, headers, and intake. Mine still has those parts but maybe just a little different specs! If I lose a race I could care less but I usually don't say things I can't at least try to back up! Whenever I see stock in quotation I figure it might be a 800hp car! Hell I'm below 600rwhp so a ton of cars on here would own me!
Quick 96ss is Matt he owns a slow 10 sec lt1 car.
So I’ve decide to go with a turbo setup. However, I don't want to buy a full kit out of the box because most are insanely expensive. That's why I’m looking for someone who can get the components together and build me a kit. Are there any members on this forum who build affordable turbo kits? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
I think you are barking up the wrong tree here. Affordable and turbo are never two words you put next to each other. I'm sure some of the boosted guys will chime in.
If you are going to pay someone for quality fab work it's going to cost just as much as a kit probably. There is 4k easily. What about all of the supporting mods? Fuel system, built lower end, new rear.... Another 5-10k there.
IMO spend $1500 and put a cam with new valvetrain components, electric waterpump and you have a 350rwhp car that runs low 12's. Some of the popular cams were the CC306 and GM847 but there may be better grinds out there these days
i lol'd for sure,i was thinking this while reading his post.
if you are trying to do something "on the cheap" you may want to consider a simple nitrous kit. That will give most bang for the buck.
lt1 tuning and boost dont play real friendly together,its going to cost some $$ to make it right and stay together. I can fab a kit,but it would be on a time/materials basis. How long does it take? ill bet more than just a few hours.:thumbsup
Found a used Procharger P600B Kit. It should be here in a couple of days and i plan on just upgrading the injectors to 42 or 60 lbs, a walbro 255 inline fuel pump and then running about 8lbs of boost. If i can hit 420hp with the kit, i'll be more than happy. I've been told tuning is the key so i might be using one of our BCM sponsors for the dyno tuning. Thanks to everybody for all the warnings about Turbos and LT1. I think this small procharger headunit and a good tune should make things easier on my stock internals. BTW, my car just hit 56k.
Glad to here you found something :thumbsup
What do you have for a clutch in there? I've never head of a competinion clutch (rating)? Also how's the 10bolt doing?
There were very good reviews for the competition clutch on LS1Tech and that's why I ended up getting it. The stage 2 is rated up to 550hp. With regards to the 10 bolt, I haven't had any problems yet. Who knows though, I might have start preparing for a 12 bolt, in case the procharger blows is up.