Need advice. If you had $3000 to spend...
03-13-2018, 01:36 AM
#1
Need advice. If you had $3000 to spend...
...on engine mods to yield a better 1/4mi time, what would you do next?
Car facts:
2012 C6 narrow A6
AA V3 Si 6-rib 3.8 pulley making 9lbs boost on 93oct
ARH headers/NPP
553rwhp on Mustang Dyno
Daily Driver
No E85 option.
Car facts:
2012 C6 narrow A6
AA V3 Si 6-rib 3.8 pulley making 9lbs boost on 93oct
ARH headers/NPP
553rwhp on Mustang Dyno
Daily Driver
No E85 option.
03-13-2018, 01:50 AM
#2
Once you have traction, a converter will cut your E.T. significantly, if you want to go that route.
If not, and you’re looking for more power, I would contact BTR or VR and order one of their smaller centri cam kits and an Alky Control meth kit and then drop down to the pulley size that gets you back to ~9-10psi. That should be good for another 100+hp and should be within your budget - unless you have to pay someone to do the install. If you do and that blows your budget, then just buy the meth kit and pulley it down to make ~12psi.
You have a good base there, and have a lot of options to get that car to really run.
03-13-2018, 08:19 AM
#3
Safety Car
03-13-2018, 09:37 AM
#4
Good advice above. Meth kit, 3.4 pulley, cam, retune and converter would eat your budget up quick.
Last edited by JetstreamGS; 03-13-2018 at 09:38 AM.
03-13-2018, 01:25 PM
#6
Team Owner
Converter, tires
That will eat up $3k easy.
That will eat up $3k easy.
03-15-2018, 12:48 AM
#9
I’m assuming that you’re already running a decent Drag radial, if you’re running it on the track? If not, then that’s the first thing you need to look into, preferably on a 17x10” wheel.
Once you have traction, a converter will cut your E.T. significantly, if you want to go that route.
If not, and you’re looking for more power, I would contact BTR or VR and order one of their smaller centri cam kits and an Alky Control meth kit and then drop down to the pulley size that gets you back to ~9-10psi. That should be good for another 100+hp and should be within your budget - unless you have to pay someone to do the install. If you do and that blows your budget, then just buy the meth kit and pulley it down to make ~12psi.
You have a good base there, and have a lot of options to get that car to really run.
Once you have traction, a converter will cut your E.T. significantly, if you want to go that route.
If not, and you’re looking for more power, I would contact BTR or VR and order one of their smaller centri cam kits and an Alky Control meth kit and then drop down to the pulley size that gets you back to ~9-10psi. That should be good for another 100+hp and should be within your budget - unless you have to pay someone to do the install. If you do and that blows your budget, then just buy the meth kit and pulley it down to make ~12psi.
You have a good base there, and have a lot of options to get that car to really run.
11.56@126.5 mph
1.96 60' (unprepped track on street tires)
03-15-2018, 08:49 AM
#10
A good converter and the right tire will wake that thing up nicely and put you right in the 10s.