Wanna Go Fast Day 1

[LancePearson]

and cyl pressure, airflow and fuel, no matter how you get there is what makes the power.

it's just that the LT5 has always been considered "too complicated" and too expensive to mess with. hogwash, my wifes BMW is more complicated by far. the LT5 is a pretty simple and elegant DOHC motor.

I'm NO ford fan, but the little coyote, isn't all that bad, and with the crate motor running around 6k, one might be going in my old Trans Am in lieu of a BB chevy or LSx motor. just got to wait for you guessed it, more CASH!!

let me know if you want to talk turbos or experience the power of the dark side. turbos and boost is very addictive.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, you are right. an engine is just a pump and if you want more power you can make bigger or more cylinders, higher revving cylinders or compress and increase atmospheric pressure in existing cylinders or some of all of the above while improving air intake flow and volume and matching it with cams and exhaust getting it outta there. What some are doing with turbos on small engines, v6's, is just amazing. I am really curious to see how Sebastian Loeb and Rhys Millen do with theirs at the Pikes Peak race June 30. Here's Sebastian Loeb's flat track times with it: 0-62mph 1.8 seconds, 0-124mph 7.0 seconds, 0-149 mph in about ten seconds and up from there. Lightweight race prepped gutted tube cars but still, with 900-1000 hp that is flying.

I spoke in detail in the past with one owner who did have a custom job done to add tt on a 90's z and it was then all custom work but created an absolute screamer in the lt5. At some point they scream so much it almost anywhere in the gears overpowers the wheels ability to grip. I guess that's why drag cars with huge power eventually went to huge racing drag slicks.

Like I said, time to start acknowledging the power of the turbo option to gain more than stock power. Has to be considered where ten years ago it was just an exotic high maintenance gimic. don't think so anymore.

Lance