how can i get 300hp cheap?
01-03-2009, 06:15 PM
#71
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You can't go 'buy one" But you can build one. Been done for 2k or under, and its being done for 2k or under right now, look at fivepointohh's post, he doesn't even have a grand yet.
If I would have kept everything stock in my car, I wouldn't have spent 2k on my turbos I got almost everything I needed for 800 dollars, another 500 for fuel supporting mods and I would have been there.
Get some turbos out of a junk yard, flip some shortys buy some mandrel bents and then you need fuel pump (110) injectors (200) MAF (150 on the high side) and an adjustable fpr (40).
Plenty of people have done it.
If I would have kept everything stock in my car, I wouldn't have spent 2k on my turbos I got almost everything I needed for 800 dollars, another 500 for fuel supporting mods and I would have been there.
Get some turbos out of a junk yard, flip some shortys buy some mandrel bents and then you need fuel pump (110) injectors (200) MAF (150 on the high side) and an adjustable fpr (40).
Plenty of people have done it.
01-05-2009, 10:02 AM
#72
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tb (150), new exhaust to fit the turbo set up (???), fuel pressure regulator ($65), etc
dont get me wrong...getting a kit together the way you mentioned will work and is a lot cheaper but realistically its gonna take more money than $2000. Not to mention the car still will need a tune.
dont get me wrong...getting a kit together the way you mentioned will work and is a lot cheaper but realistically its gonna take more money than $2000. Not to mention the car still will need a tune.
01-11-2009, 11:12 AM
#73
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Well, i Raced this civic a long while back, had like 130 tq and about 400 hp. (this was before I had any mods on my 5.0 whatsoever also) I crushed him off the line, but once he was higher rpm and into second or third gear, he started gaining on me. whereas i had a lot higher amount of tq and a lot lower amount of hp, as to why i slottered him on the take off (set me back in the seat) and then he cought up later (he didn't jump off the line but his hp set him better off in the higher speeds challenge against me).
Definition of torque: something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
Definition of horsepower:Horsepower is defined as work done over time. The exact definition of one horsepower is 33,000 lb.ft./minute. Put another way, if you were to lift 33,000 pounds one foot over a period of one minute, you would have been working at the rate of one horsepower. In this case, you'd have expended one horsepower-minute of energy.
Hope this helps your tq vs hp argument.
Definition of torque: something that produces or tends to produce torsion or rotation; the moment of a force or system of forces tending to cause rotation.
Definition of horsepower:Horsepower is defined as work done over time. The exact definition of one horsepower is 33,000 lb.ft./minute. Put another way, if you were to lift 33,000 pounds one foot over a period of one minute, you would have been working at the rate of one horsepower. In this case, you'd have expended one horsepower-minute of energy.
Hope this helps your tq vs hp argument.
01-11-2009, 11:30 AM
#74
I will verify an earlier post, to an extent. For 94/95 Ford offered a special order Mustang called the GT-40, it was designed by SVO and used the following:
B-303 cam
SVO GT-40 Upper/Lower intake (same as Cobra but with larger ports and no cobra plaque)
GT-40 X303 Heads
1.7 roller rockers
70mm throttle body
Rated at 290 bhp, so yes, an ecam could put you near or over the 300 bhp mark, however they're outdated and I'd look into a newer series of cams, especially if you wind up with a 94/95 as the ECUs in those years do not like cam swaps.
B-303 cam
SVO GT-40 Upper/Lower intake (same as Cobra but with larger ports and no cobra plaque)
GT-40 X303 Heads
1.7 roller rockers
70mm throttle body
Rated at 290 bhp, so yes, an ecam could put you near or over the 300 bhp mark, however they're outdated and I'd look into a newer series of cams, especially if you wind up with a 94/95 as the ECUs in those years do not like cam swaps.
01-11-2009, 12:19 PM
#75
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tb (150), new exhaust to fit the turbo set up (???), fuel pressure regulator ($65), etc
dont get me wrong...getting a kit together the way you mentioned will work and is a lot cheaper but realistically its gonna take more money than $2000. Not to mention the car still will need a tune.
dont get me wrong...getting a kit together the way you mentioned will work and is a lot cheaper but realistically its gonna take more money than $2000. Not to mention the car still will need a tune.
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