Lets say with stock turbo with bolt ons, and a BWS or big turbo with bolt ons and supporting mods, all with appropriate tuning. Not considering the plus and minus of each, or whats available in your area, price, safety, or anything else. Just the dirt on actual HP gains with each of these formats...The more I research I cant make heads or tails of which setup is the king POWER WISE ONLY...
Well, if you try to calculate hp by ET and MPH, my numbers vary greatly. With the SSTv3 (similar BWS turbo), my best was a 12.7 @ 116mph on E85. Crappy 60ft, spun in 1st and 2nd. So, with a weight of 3175 with me in it you get 306whp by ET and 407hp by mph. It's somewhere in the middle there because those calculators don't take into account loss of traction and the equations break down. Those numbers would be a safe boundary of the high a low possiblities. I actually trapped 120 once, but the run was a joke spinning into third. I ran a bunch of high 12s/low 13s at around ~118mph to back it up. I was on DRs and could never get better than a 1.95 60ft. If I had gotten slicks and hooked decent, I could have easily gotten a low 12/high 11.
Ya' I know its gay having a little turbo:gay:, but Im setup for it and when I decide to go big turbo, I'm gonna just sell my car and buy a faster ride instead!
I think Im going to do the E85 with Dusters Injectors and custom CMR tune now...My manifold was lightly ported by FM already...I can always add one later...The jump to E85 is going to be an awesome gain in power anyways!
If you wanna keep it stealthy, just use a port/polish internally gated manifold. I've never seen data saying if the elbow mod even helps, so i wouldnt bother with it.