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Quote (Loren @ Oct. 01 2002,12:51)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Oh yeah, my dad likes Chevy a lot.. he trusts them, he loves them, and to him its more practical to pay 15k for a nice car with less than 50k miles, then spend 3k to blow it, instead of 15k for a car, then spend over 7k in mods to get the same times, plus a hell of a lot more work, and an engine swap..</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
No offence dude, but you honestly have no idea of what you are saying. When I was 12, my neighbor bought a 66 nova body for 1600 dollars. This is how I started out in cars. We purchased a 350 lt1 from a 95 z28. Did all the work ourselves, slapped a blower on it, built up internals, nice paintjob, gears, built up the tranny, and dynoed it out at around 650 ponies and endless torque. Long story short, projected started at 1600...all said and done with stage one....around $17k dropped into it. This is the funny part...first time at the track, second run...threw a rod and the flywheel. Good thing we had a blow-proof installed.
Anyway you go about building up a car...demostic or import, it's expensive, and can be unreliable. You go get your daddy's camaro though, and learn the hard way though. Just remember that an sr goes for around 2k and some bolt ons will get you in low 13's high 12's, and can still turn left and right.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
When I was 6, I'd seen my dad build 2 hot rods, and seen his two best friends build 3 amongst themselves. In fact it is you that has no clue what your talking about. On any car you can run force induction on stock internals, the problem is how much. The point of forged and balanced components has to do with how much power your running, which translates to the abuse that the rotating mass is taking. So if you have a high powered engine, Forced Induction or Naturally Aspirated, you will have to change the internals (that is of course if the stock ones power handling is exceded). Typically for a NA engine you will run higher compression pistons and for a FI you will run lower. So back to the point at hand, you can run a blower on a stock F-Body, of course you'll need air flowing capabalities (intake/exhaust) as well as a remapped ECU. Of course if you want to run a lot of boost you'd have to put in lower compression forged slugs, but in my case, just wanting a little boost (keep in mind the engine comes from the factory with over 300hp) you can get away with never touching any of the greasy bits.
my dad doesn't have 2 camaros, he has a firebird tho.. He has a 70 El Camino, that runs high 11s, and a 70 corvette that runs high 12s. The reason he doesn't sell them and make one 9 second car, is because the corvette is a driving car, not a drag queen, and if he wanted to run lower times on the El Camino he would just take the 550+horse engine and put in a car that wayed 3k or less instead of the El Camino which is 3800lbs (its a sleeper, all stock interior, body panels, not tubbed...)</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
Don't tell me I don't have a clue...I have done 4 different installs of blowers on the 350...including my old 88 which ran 11.98 in the quarter. Mainly my point was that it's going to be expensive either way you go about it. It may not be the initial expense of the blower, bigger fuel pump...which is a bitch on the camaro, and so on that's expensive. You will eventually throw a shaft, screw up your valves, and so on that will start costing a lot. I blew the tranny mounts on my camaro on four different occassions...it's the reliablity of a high horsepowered car that will cost you. Whether you go import or demostic, it's always the reliablity cost that adds up, not the initial cost.