Buick Skyhawk Turbo

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That is looking good and very similar to ours, except ours is an 84 hot air motor with distributorless ign and sfi. Is the motor still out of the car? I am trying to find the width of the 109 style motors from exhaust manifold mounting surface to exhaust manifold surface. The series 2 motor is supposed to be much narrower and we with h bodies could use the space. Anyone know anyone with a 109 on a stand that they could measure?

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I think Carl installed a smaller front tire on it with little success... I'd put a skinny up front if it'd help but we need to get a rack in there that can really turn full lock L & R first. The SeriesII We did in the one camaro (1998) was running 16.7's stock and with a TA49 Turbo... Ebay intercooler and larger injectors on it's first tune made 307rwhp and 311ftlbs of torque on a chassis dyno and went 12.7@108mph with no boost launch and regular radials. (Not even a valve cover taken off) Drove it like that for 3yrs. I think it was 14psi. Did a Firebird with a much larger turbo but It's never been to the track. The SeriesII has a better oiling system,Roller camshaft and anything 1998 up is supported by HPTuners so you can get right in and dial it in with. I use a GTP Cast iron manifold on the drivers side and make my own header for the passenger side and a merge pipe to the turbo. Pretty simple but effective. Carl said these cars are heavy? never put it on the scale though?

 

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That is some helpful info. For sure that is. We have decent side radials in front as i wanted the car to be able to sto as good as it goes. Ours is a notchback, it weighs right around 2600. They are not all that heavy. The cars you were talking about above, what gear and trans did they have?

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