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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 02:44 PM
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I plan on putting a 125 shot on the car this season. The car is a H/C/I car making 520whp N/A so car should be making 625-650whp on the bottle. Is the stock bottom end LS2 capable of holding this kind of power and if so is it capable of holding it for any reasonable amount of time. Obviously I know the type of tune makes a big difference, but generally speaking with someone that has a lot of experience tuning these cars. I know there are LS2 guys making 700+whp on stock bottom ends, but their blower cars and power gradually comes on where as nitrous just hits hard. Just trying to get some opinions on what some of you guys think. Thanks!
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If you're real concerned you could always get a progressive controller to ramp the power up. They're pretty slick
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Old Feb 17, 2012 | 03:50 PM
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I thought about a progressive controller but don't really want to deal with a progressive controller I like the KISS (keep it simple stupid) method. I was going to put a built 416 in the car but don't want to spend 6k to gain 20whp n/a
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