Drag S13

[orion::S14]

Originally Posted by Yoshi

hA! drag KA-T for 9's? that'd be REALLY REALLY hard.

How about forged pistons, rods, and some cams...then about 30psi. Easy.

SP / PhatKA-T just did 638rwhp KA-T setup...that should get a ~2700lb car EASILY in the 9s (with traction, of course).

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As for the car pictured here...nice work. Come back with more pics and SPECS...and maybe some numbers, too.

- Brian

[riot]

Oh but I assure you this vehicle is going to weigh much less than ~2700lbs! We weighed it in at 2499lbs with driver in road race form. Since then, we've done A LOT of weight reduction.

[Yoshi]

Originally Posted by orion::S14

How about forged pistons, rods, and some cams...then about 30psi. Easy.

SP / PhatKA-T just did 638rwhp KA-T setup...that should get a ~2700lb car EASILY in the 9s (with traction, of course).
- Brian

Clearly our definitions of "easy" differ.
pulling the engine to do internal work definitely does NOT count as easy in my book, if you're a good engine mechanic, more power to ya, but imho, easy things are stuff like bolt-ons, changing your rims, basic little mods... stuff that can be done in a couple hours. "then about 30psi", ya... not easy either, I have KA-T friends that are having probs getting above the teens for boost pressure before having problems. Can it be done? sure, it already has been, but I stand by the fact that it's not EASY. If it were, there would be no market for SRs.

Sheesh, why are KA-T people always ready to argue about the potential?
My point was that it'd be "easier" to throw in a custom 8, or some other idea, than figure out everything necessary to KA-T'it there, I never said it wasn't possible, in fact I was careful NOT to say that. Maybe it IS "easy" for you, since you clearly have experience in turboing the KA, but you're in specialized area with few experienced people doing that sort of modding, even in a forum as specific as this... unless you've already done it, I don't see how making a fully built KA-T that will run 9's is in ANY sense of the word, Easy.

I'll just agree to disagree

[Maeda]

Originally Posted by Yoshi

Sheesh, why are KA-T people always ready to argue about the potential?

There's a lot of haters. =)