How much power will it make?
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550 is a good number. My old car was around that number. Was very easy to drive on the street with street tires. Would stick (for the most part) when you wanted it to. Would smoke the tires when you wanted. Going higher than that gets expensive. Forged motor, Fuel, Clutch, Rearend, Sticky Tires, etc...Any motor can make good power with a good tune. The reason I mention the above suggestions for the 600 and above range is mainly to get the full benefit from the extra power you are capable of. It sucks spinning. So you get sticker tires. The sticky tires roast your clutch. The new clutch with the sticky tires plays ping pong with your axles(mostly from wheel hop). The new rearend, sticky tires, clutch lets you go full throttle. You go full throttle and then you run out of fuel pressure. Then you upgrade fuel system. Now you are happy for about a month. Then you start the vicious circle over for even more power. Just make sure you are prepared to fix it. It's addicting. Either way just remember it is a hobby and have fun and be safe.
Wesley
Wesley
It's hard to find a thread in the FI/Nitrous section which isn't about getting everything you can. I know at least two guys with 700+ horsepower cars. Then ran into one at a gtg. All of them have expressed a certain modders remorse. Basically once it gets over 600 rwhp the car stops being fun.
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It still surprises me that some still think one kit makes "X" HP over another. It's not a matter of how much any of the kits can make, it's how much do you want to make.
The question from there is how efficient is one kit over another, hence why some kits on average consistently show better times at the track then others, and how big is the split from HP to TQ, are ALL the parts included to be ready to race it and so on. These items are the area that I feel the ECS kit stands way above the rest.
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The question from there is how efficient is one kit over another, hence why some kits on average consistently show better times at the track then others, and how big is the split from HP to TQ, are ALL the parts included to be ready to race it and so on. These items are the area that I feel the ECS kit stands way above the rest.
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Edit: and do any of your kits have a CARB number?
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