Thread: Nitrous Guys Step In!!

SWEET!!! Have you seen the twin charged configuration Stattama Turbo Kit? Been thinking really hard of maybe running it, but haven't heard anyone talk about it. I know if I di, I'm going to rebuild my whole motor. Due to high miles and to be on the safe side. Do you think the bottom end would need to be beefed up to handle the way more pony's? I want to try and figure what my HP is going to be, cause I don't want to make the OL' Girl non-streetable. There would be some other mods that I would add to it, like a ported s/c housing, bigger throtle body, cam, rockers, s/c intercooler, and maybe a machined intake. Whar's your thoughts? Forgot to ask you, did you make it to the track Friday night? If so, howed she do? You said you had a new setup right?

as far as a twin turbo setup on a stock bottom end? probably not gunna last long at all depending on the boost levels...I belive ''urlosin'' has a twin turbo setup...or maybe it is just a single.


As far as the mods that you mentioned....Forget the machined intake...i just ran a breather in the front valve cover because of the intercooler setup...sounds like your on the right track with the mods you've got in mind. I wanted to be a little different...So my goal is to go the fastest i can on a stock heads and cam setup. I really dont want to mess with changing a cam out right now...so when i'm maxing out with the stock heads and cam setup and if one day i do decide to change the cam out it will give me a real nice jump in power.


Get some exhaust first...headers...if you get pacesetters pm me first. It will give a power increase that you can feel for sure over stock...wich will satisfy you...but more importantly it will make room for other mods in the future.Then do the other mods.


As far as going to the track...yes i did make it. My new setup is im my sig and my old setup was only a p-log and fwi and got me a 14.4.

heres my excuses...Tune could have been better for sure,garbage ass street tires and a tranny that is now slipping on the 1-2 shift netted me a 13.5....but hey i whooped all of the imports that were out ther except a eclips that was running 12's and an evo that did a 13.00....even beat the gto's except one that had exhaust and did a 13.4....so i was happy i guess....


What im gunna do next is either smaller pulley or nos...i will probably go with the smaller pulley at first...get my wideband get the nos then port my stock heads....With a real good tune i could go to a 2.8 with bigger injectors ect....but lower than that the stock cam would definetly be holding me back...like i said i am going to do the best anyone can with stock cam and stock ported heads...then see if i want to mess with a cam....that will be the last thing i do though...I would probably get a new tranny first though.

With the nos and a smaller pulley and a real good tune with a w/b i should be around 12.6 i would think for sure

Any one else running nos that would like to add anything??

Neither GT's or GTP's come with forged pistons... it'd be awesome, but the only difference between the two types are bowl depth and connecting rod length for compression difference. Dropping from 9.4:1 to 8.5:1 was GM's only bottom-end change to fend off trouble.

If they were forged, alot of replaced engines wouldn't have been bought over the years due to issues like these...





And here's what a forged piston looks like when it fails...





The top doesn't fail like our stock ones do, it takes an extreme amount of leaning out to cause the failure, unlike the failures that even a moderately knocking 3.4" pulley setup can do to a stock motor.

Our connecting rods did improve with the Series 3 introduction, though. That's a proven fact that I've inspected myself on multiple builds (all '04+ supercharged cars, even Series 2's... and then they did it for all '05+ N/A 3800's).

On the topic of nitrous though, I'll be reading more from those doing it, since a local guy will be swapping his setup from the L36 he had, to the L67 he now runs. A handful of locals are thinking about it in the distant future, including myself on my forged RWD setup, so I'll be paying close attention to the tuning results.

- Dave