Wanna Go Fast Day 1

[LancePearson]

Hog, seems like if you spend around $20,000 one way or another today you can take a 5.7 litre v8 and crank it up to 500-600 hp with the engineering knowledge around. It sure would make me think twice to leave the dohc architecture though. A dohc with twin turbos has to be a beast that will really crank. The little 3.5 l. v6 Sebastian Loeb ran in a Peugot and Rhys Millen ran a 4.0 twin turbo v6 4.0 liter that each put up published approx 900 hp and were probably tuned higher than that. Loeb won the Pike's Peak Hill climb race in his by obliterating the prior year record of 9'46" at 8'13" and change. Millen ran 9'02" but finished second. Take our engines and spin turbos on them and you'd have to see 1,000 hp. Way more than I could manage. The Loeb car on a flat track did 0-62 mph in 1.8 seconds, 0-124 mph in 7 seconds and to 149 in 10 seconds I believe. I love my lt5 and I love my 2008 LS2 with the 4:10 rear end but after seeing what people are doing with turbos it is hard not to think I might do something like that rather than the traditional re sleeve, port and relieve, solely if I were to do something more to the engine.

Lance