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    How much power will be made on an L36 with fully ported L67 heads, a better cam, and a combo nitrous methanol injection setup.

    I was thinking 250 at the wheels with the heads and cam, do you guys think that is a reasonable estimate?

    I read if you inject methanol with nitrous it decreases the stress that nitrous puts on everything, so I would probably try for a 150 shot of nitrous with the methanol.
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    It won't ever make 250 on just the motor...
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    heads and cam wont make 250?
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    L67 heads are lower compression = less power. Then the cam will help a bit but not to 250, especially with L67 heads.
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    The L67's dished pistons also reduce compression, it's a combo of the two fyi.

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    Right. He's asking about a l36 block though. Not a good setup really unless he's going boosted
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    didnt even zzp's 4.1 stroker only make like 240 on the motor?
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    I'm not sure how much the 4.1 stroker made, but I've kind of given up on boosting an L36. One idea I did have was to swap a set of L67 heads onto the F body camaro L36 and then do a dual nitrous water/methanol injection setup.

    in my searching, I found an australian L36 setup that had been top swapped and was using an air to air intercooler, I thought that was pretty interesting.
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    all of those ideas would be way more finicky then a turbo setup and probably net less power. the 3800 just doesnt breath very well. certainly not well enough to warrant any N/A setup in my mind.

    air to air intercooler on a supercharged car is just stupid. thats like you trying to run a marathon breathing through a straw.
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    take a look at the piping of the intercooler, does it really look restrictive?

    http://www.fullthrottlev6.com/forums...67-intercooler
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    that is certainly a better way to do it then what i was imagining i.e. a cone filter on one side of an intercooler core and a pipe up the supercharger. with the m90 being a positive displacement blower having to pressureize all that extra volume is gonna kinda defeat the only benefit of the supercharger i would think. the guy claims no lag but im still skeptical. its an interesting concept.

    the one guy only made 310 horse on a 2.55 pulley. hell for that kind of power you could just stick an xpz cam in with some headers and some mild heads (like clean a set up) and make more power. seriously no reason to drive the m90 that hard.
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    I was thinking the same thing about 310 horse and a 2.55 pulley. an xpz cam with ported heads would put down probably 100 more hp. I will have to research how effective an air to air intercooler actually is for supercharged applications.

    I would be awfully disappointed if my 2.8 pulley car made less than 300 hp at the wheels
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    a buddy of mine had an xpz setup on a 3.0, no intercooler, had headers and it made 330 ish.
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    I think some of the top xpz cam builds made like 385.

    I think installing an air to air intercooler for a supercharger would be really simple. just mount the heat exchanger and run the ducting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SgtMarshal View Post
    I think some of the top xpz cam builds made like 385.

    I think installing an air to air intercooler for a supercharger would be really simple. just mount the heat exchanger and run the ducting.
    intercooled on a 2.6 i would believe that. zzp's test car was like 420 ish.

    looks like you are at minimum looking at egr delete, belt routing issues. PS pump clearance issues. etc.
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    That a2a doesn't work well. You would either need to relocate the maf to right before the lim, or hack the PCM so you can run in speed density.


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    good point! probably add an external BOV too as im sure the internal BBV would be lacking at best
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    Possibly. It's just a sucky setup.

    Just turbo the car and be done with it.


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    i believe that is now the 4-5 time that has been said in this thread.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GTPpower View Post
    Possibly. It's just a sucky setup.

    Just turbo the car and be done with it.
    no pun intended?

    the maf could go right in front of the throttle body.

    Why wouldn't the BBV work?
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