question on muscle car turbocharging
 

Ok, so here's the deal. My friend has a 70 GTO with a 455HO and he wants to turbo it, but budgets are tight. I want to see what the HMT community thinks of a cheap but effective way to turbo this bitch. It also has ~10.5:1 compression to start off with. What would be the best/cheapest way to turbo and tune this?

Re: question on muscle car turbocharging
 

a holset with a fmu running 7 pounds with a msd btm and 6al ;D

Re: question on muscle car turbocharging
 

COUGHSHRMMMMBULLSHITHRMMM.............

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Don't get involved in being an internediate for your friend in forums. especially while such project, I think, will require enough internet research and forum talk to justify having his own computer and a HMT account.

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more I am trying to convince him he can do it. The thing is already a beast, but I wanna try and con him into it.

and no it isn't bullshit...thanks though for the input jackass

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i would say big holset, a holley boost carb, thick headgasket, and 8 psi of boost. should be one hell of a ride.

personally i would find a intake manny for fuel injection and run mega squirt.

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well basically we are both poor ass college students and he loves carbs too much he wont touch EFI with a 10-foot pole. I might have to do that, but how do you tune carb?Do you just use FMU's or do the boost carbs take care of that?

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boost carbs just take care of it...lol

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http://www.turbomustangs.com/smf/ :y

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Draw through setup.

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tight budget = don't ---- with the car.

less than 33,000 hardtop GTO's were made that year, I couldn't find the breakdown as to how many got 455's.

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amen, no reason to ruin that car with a hackjob setup.

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stainless is the only way to go on that car.

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If it has the original motor and trans I don't care what anyone says take that ---- out of there before turboing it. Find a cheaper alternative, something made recently like a crate motor from Summit or Jegs. If something goes wrong at least that way you can put the original stuff back in and have a vehicle worth as much as before you started. If you ---- up a stock drivetrain part it would be a shame. For instance... a 63 Vette split window is worth a ---- load with all original parts. Take out the engine and trans and it's suddenly worth $30k less. I urge you to replace that motor, keep it somewhere safe, and go from there.

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I am pretty sure it is not original. He is slowly modding it putting in positrack and all that stuff. He has a different trans I do beleive as well, at least the gears aren't stock.

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------ kid has more displacement then all of the hondas on this site combined, isnt' that enough :1

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has a 4 speed tranny and 1st and 2nd are useless. we want the same for 3rd and 4th. mostly because it's ------ fun. The fucker tops out at ~90mph until he rebuilds his trans.

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2.45 rear gears or 40" tall tires take your pick