has anyone did a turbo

[97shobroken]

has anyone put a turbo on the 3rd gen sho's yet i was think of doing so but has it been done befor and is ther a kit made to do it .

 

[nothingtoseehere]

Nope. Hasn't been done yet, no kit available. Only thing that has been done is a supercharger.

 

[97shobroken]

i think a turbo would be mean on a sho. I think at v8sho.com they had someone on ther workin on a turbo sho. idk maybe it was the supercharged one. Is ther kits for the sc sho's.

 

[roland]

on V8sho they said their is a turbo V8 SHO, but it was a 24,000$ setup and running 11's in the 1/4M

 

[V6&V8SHO]

I have a toilet made of solid gold

 

[Motoman991]

I have a toilet made of solid gold

damn and I am stuck putting my sh*t in the cheap toilets

 

[ArkanSHO]

Jose (M5Spanker) from LA on the V8 list has his at a fabricator right now getting the turbo all piped in. Not sure what he is doing about tuning yet though. He said once his is done others should be easy, but they said the same thing about mine and to the best of my knowledge none of the kits that were based on mine are operational yet after 4 years.

 

[97shobroken]

Jose (M5Spanker) from LA on the V8 list has his at a fabricator right now getting the turbo all piped in. Not sure what he is doing about tuning yet though. He said once his is done others should be easy, but they said the same thing about mine and to the best of my knowledge none of the kits that were based on mine are operational yet after 4 years.

Dont you run a s/c , what was all did it all take to do . Did it cost alot is your motor stock.

 

[ArkanSHO]

Dont you run a s/c , what was all did it all take to do . Did it cost alot is your motor stock.

Yes, I do have a Vortech A-1 in S trim on my car.
All it took is a month to get it fabbed up, about a year to get it tuned halfway decent, almost the same amount to make it reliable so it wasn't eating auxillary drive seals or belts and a lot of patience.
Seems to have run a lot more then I was initially expecting. The original estimate was for about $4,000 but it has ballooned over the years to somewhere over $10,000 since the parts involved in making it reliable weren't really designed to be that way. Things like bearings and seals in the auxullary drive shaft, even the drive shaft itself were remade a couple of times to find a reliable combination. You would be totally amazed at the loads and RPM's involved. It was bending 1/4" steel plate, twisting #8 grade bolts and crumbling 12,000 RPM 2.5" ball bearings. Even ended up with a couple of different versions of the intake pre-TB until one proved relaible as some kept blowing off under full boost. And I am not including the motor pieces, transmissions, torque converters or tires it has "used" up in the process.
Yes, the motor is for the most part stock. Mind you I am on the third one now though since putting the blower in. The first two seemed to have failed at the rings (piston burning then locking the upper rings shattering them along with the land) on number five first. Not real clear why but other N/A and juiced cars seem to abuse number five also from what I have been reading recently.
I can say it has been on the car for over 4 years and 55,000 miles so far and I wouldn't trade it for anything short of a real bad ass 959.
In short, if you are looking to go fast: Buy a "Stang" or some rice. If you want to make your SHO go fast: Buy an earlier gen with a 5 speed. If you want to go "faster" in your GEN 3, get it juiced but keep it under a 75 shot. If you just want a "Wow, WTF is that?" comment when they "hear" you pull up at a light (I have found that most chicken out and don't want to run you) then throw a bucket of money at it and put on some sort of blower.

 

[SHO Continental]

Jose (M5Spanker) from LA on the V8 list has his at a fabricator right now getting the turbo all piped in. Not sure what he is doing about tuning yet though. He said once his is done others should be easy, but they said the same thing about mine and to the best of my knowledge none of the kits that were based on mine are operational yet after 4 years.

The last time I talked to Jose he said they were doing a manual swap. Supposedly the turbo is already done.

 

[97shobroken]

Yes, I do have a Vortech A-1 in S trim on my car.
All it took is a month to get it fabbed up, about a year to get it tuned halfway decent, almost the same amount to make it reliable so it wasn't eating auxillary drive seals or belts and a lot of patience.
Seems to have run a lot more then I was initially expecting. The original estimate was for about $4,000 but it has ballooned over the years to somewhere over $10,000 since the parts involved in making it reliable weren't really designed to be that way. Things like bearings and seals in the auxullary drive shaft, even the drive shaft itself were remade a couple of times to find a reliable combination. You would be totally amazed at the loads and RPM's involved. It was bending 1/4" steel plate, twisting #8 grade bolts and crumbling 12,000 RPM 2.5" ball bearings. Even ended up with a couple of different versions of the intake pre-TB until one proved relaible as some kept blowing off under full boost. And I am not including the motor pieces, transmissions, torque converters or tires it has "used" up in the process.
Yes, the motor is for the most part stock. Mind you I am on the third one now though since putting the blower in. The first two seemed to have failed at the rings (piston burning then locking the upper rings shattering them along with the land) on number five first. Not real clear why but other N/A and juiced cars seem to abuse number five also from what I have been reading recently.
I can say it has been on the car for over 4 years and 55,000 miles so far and I wouldn't trade it for anything short of a real bad ass 959.
In short, if you are looking to go fast: Buy a "Stang" or some rice. If you want to make your SHO go fast: Buy an earlier gen with a 5 speed. If you want to go "faster" in your GEN 3, get it juiced but keep it under a 75 shot. If you just want a "Wow, WTF is that?" comment when they "hear" you pull up at a light (I have found that most chicken out and don't want to run you) then throw a bucket of money at it and put on some sort of blower.

yea man when i got my sho,not many people would race. Sence the car needs a motor(spun a bearing)I have bought a thunderbird sc, now no one will race that car .And its mostly stock.owell yea i want that WTF is that thats y i was thinking of a turbo i like the way a turbo sounds. also i have a large pending law suit been taking over year and a 1/2 so far. HOPE I WIN my hospital bills over 25,000.


check out my sc doin it up, http://youtube.com/watch?v=jAxicvlZ73A
heres a pic of the marks http://www.sccoa.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=23740&d=1164734267