Alky = good for hotair, intercooled, stock, highly modded....doesnt matter. It is the one mod that plain out complements whatever setup you have. Hands down the best mod Ive had. I started playing around with it years back ('98 or '99). Changed components and setup over the years, but always added a great benefit. I have since then moved up to Julio/Razor's kit when he made it available, simply because IMO its the best.
As far as hotairs with alky? YES there are plenty who have been using alky for some time. Most who KNOW do so. Alky/h2o injection on a hotair was meant to be, even GM thought so
. This website has been around for quite some time now and I think what has happened here in this forum, and probably the others too, is that so much info has been typed over and over about the same subject that some guys/gals just dont chime in as much as they may have used to, just to type the same thing again. I admit I am guilty of this. In my/our defense, that is what the search feature is for. There isnt much that someone hasnt already gone through or tried before, so by checking past threads your almost certain to find answers to almost every question.
Be sure to check the other forums also. Believe it or not, whether 84/85 or 86/87, there is very little difference in these cars. We are all trying to achieve the same thing and the principles and basics are all the same. The benefit of alky on a IC car is the same on a hotair car, so you can learn from their posts as well. Oh, and yes you will find hotair specific info in the alky injection forum, I know because I posted there plenty in the past as well as Leeo and others. Plus you have the benefit of Julio who is always eager to help as a moderator there. The General Tech section Is not the 86/87 section, although thats what some think. I have found lots of pertinent info there in the past on all TR aspects. Again IMO, the similarities out weigh the differences. The great benefit of the hotair specific forum is to learn about 84/85 specifics like the need to gut/port the restrictive stock intake. These specifics help to level the playing field. After that its all the same
Just target the points that the factory didnt do quite so good on. Then you can be as fast (or faster) than the stock 86/87, still with no IC and still virtually stock. Then you start to add the goodies, and really turn some heads. That is the way I have always approached it. [Also let me just mention the word TUNING].
P.S. Thats my car on Julio's site - 12s in street trim. Thats a stock never rebuilt block, same basic bolt on mods that any 86/87 would add, small turbo, street tires, always 93 octane, with the usual crap a street car would have- spare, tools, and baby seat
Never had a ounce of race gas in it and yet to be on slicks. I believe the car is faster now with no changes other than tinkering but havent been able to make it to the track yet this season (maybe next week). IMHO alky injection has allowed me to achieve more power and keep me from breaking something all the time with as much as I beat on the car
