Embarrassing..

[BlackOut89]

Alright so i was driving my 86 TR the other day and came across a 2004 super charged monte carlo and he wanted to race...first off let me give you a part list of each car

My 86 TR,
-TA49 Turbo
-3in TH down pipe
-2in half inch hooker exhaust
-42lb luca injectors
-Walbro 340 fuel pump with hot wire kit
-Turbo tweak chip
- stock 15lb boost

2004 Monte Carlo,
-Power logger
-Front manifold
-Heat wraspped cross over pipe
-U bend delete
-Open element air box
-stock pully
- really good tune

With all that said you would think i would have beat him but i lost by a fender...soo my question is..Why? i am guesing i need a good tune to get the full potential out of my car. what is the best program to tune with??

 

[blackmonte]

Get a Alky kit and turn up the boost , I ran a 2004 Cobra with Alky 25 psi and walked it with a 49:biggrin:

 

[BlackOut89]

thats what everyone keeps telling me but there is a guy in the buick club that i am in with the same set up as i do except he has a torque converter and he ran 11.97 annd my car i dont think could even touch that right now...

 

[mygn276]

Looks like its was the 15 lbs of boost that made you loose the race.

 

[BlackOut89]

you think so? what about tuneing?

 

[Grunk]

You really did not describe the race or how it was set up. I would think that at a drag strip where you could build some boost off the line you would easily walk away from that. Think about a weak launch in a head soaked turbo car could get you a high 14 pass, and a great launch in a SC car would be mid low 14's. I doubt that MC SS is a 13 second car while your TR should be easily.

 

[BlackOut89]

It was from a dead stop and i break tourqed and spun of the line but after we got goin he just kept pullin on me. didnt really feel like i was pullin as hard as i used to.

 

[1dollardog]

I could buy it if he had a smaller pulley. I just sold my impala ss with that same engine. I had the same mods that you mentioned that he had but I had a smaller pulley which shot me up to about 18 psi where as with stock pulley that engine would be hard pressed to pull 10 psi.

 

[Onalky87]

You prob won't see much as far as power gains with that turbo vs stock turbo at only 15#. U really need to turn the boost up to get the benefit of that larger turbo