Hey fellas, some Turbo questions.

It's been a while since I have posted in this forum. You may remember I purchased a ProCharger kit awhile back but have yet to install it. Had some other business to take care of.

Anyway, the short and skinny of it, is I can get my money back for the kit. The guy I got it from wants to set me up with a turbo kit. I believe turbo is the way to go without a doubt but the question is, I don't have hands on experience with them. I want an intercooler with it, and with a little more cost, he can hook me up with a twin turbo system. He tells me that there is really no advantage of this other then spooling the turbos up quicker then a bigger single turbo. He says he has a way to make the larger single turbo spool up just as fast.

I am sure I am showing my lack of experience, but that is the point. How much better is stainless then coated mild steel? How do our cars react to turbos with little or no mods? First I should say, the car is pretty much stock besides underdrives, tranny, driveshaft, clutch and bellhousing. When I finish getting things in order around here, I plan on this being more of a strip car but still being able to drive it out of state on a rare occasion. I hear turbo cars have the ability to be a daily driver and a weekend warrior at the local strip.

I will be doing everything from heads/cam to maybe even a 331 stroker in the future, however atm the car is 99% stock. I don't want to buy a turbo/turbos twice if I don't have to. Is there anything I should be sure to ask or do when I go to talk to him about this tomorrow?

Thanks in advance
Adrenalin

Thanks for the info thus far guys! And I have been checking out a few threads on that site. I am sold on the turbo, no worries there, just not sure what the downsides are and what to be leary(sp) of. I was told mild steel will crack after a little while and that was the reason for stainless. I am not about making it pretty but usefull is my goal. I use to have a '90 coupe that ran 11.4s on a 150 dry shot and this '95 needs alot of help!

I will be packing the S/Cer up here in a bit to take it to him tomorrow and hope to have all the info I need as well as getting the pricing worked out. My goal is 10s when the car is complete. How low or high I am sure will change the more I get into it. I just want to know what all I should confront him with when talking about this tomorrow.

Thanks again,
Adrenalin

Well, I went by and talked to the guy about the turbo setup and think (only for the "bling bling" effect) I will be going twin turbo. He mentioned we would probably be using two Airworks turbos around 46-50mm. It's going to cost me abit more then I expected but I guess the stuff ain't free . So I just threw an add in the paper for the ProCharger kit to help speed along the process.

He still wanted to push me toward stainless but agreed to settle for mild steel piping for now. He is figuring on using an SDS system and going to use 50lb inj. (sound crazy big to me but he is the one putting it together) I thought 42s sounded big but he is setting me up for when I get my shortblock built I suppose. We will also be using an intercooler as well. I can't remember what he called it but we will be converting the car to read MAP instead of MAF. (remember I know little of turbos and what is required so this may not make alot of sense)

Hey Oink, first off don't be trying to tell me how to race. You can have no clue about racing there buddy!

I checked out your website and by the looks of your pics you cannot drive your car around! That is a show car!


I mean you shouldn't! that thing is too damned pretty!

Nice job man for real! and seriously, how can you stand to race that thing and possibly get it dirty?