Posted by: cve92

06/25/2009, 12:54am

Hey Wicked Ride M8 5***** 4 All Ur ratings Good Work.. Come Check My Jeep Out And Tell Me Wat U Think, And Nominate Me 4 Showoff Of The Week As It Is In The Top 5 Nominations. It Will Be An Honor To Win This…..
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Posted by: MYSANDMAN

03/19/2009, 01:32am

yeah i tokk her to the drags lastnight and ran a 13.2 sec quarter.. not to bad for a van.. yeah i'll jump on the forum thanks for the help

Posted by: MYSANDMAN

03/19/2009, 01:04am

hey buddy thanks for checkin out my sandman its running a 355 stroker v8.. Turbo350.. 3500 hi stall.. 9" diff with 3.9 gears. I love the tory by the way im lookin for a LX if u know anyone in perth with something decent

Posted by: HSVLS3

03/16/2009, 05:09am

Hi Heath. Everyone thinks that turbos eat fuel and have lag. Nothing is further from the truth. First, I get better fuel economy now than when it was stock. I got 9.9l/100km over 2500 kms driving from Sydney to Melb incl 1/3 of the mileage in the city. The std Clubby got 12l/100km on a trip.

There is no lag as in "less power down low", even though the dyno graph makes it look that way. We did a baseline dyno of the Clubby before we put the turbos on and at low rpm (ie 85kph on the dyno in 4th) the turboed motor has 54rwkW more than the standard motor - thats an increase of 47% in power. This continues to increase until at say 185kph the turboed motor has 81% more power (+209rwkW) than standard. You cant say 47% more power down low is lag! lol.
A properly sized twin turbo system comes on boost very quickly and surprisingly early. Its the big single turbo systems that have some lag.

Cheers, Ian

Posted by: HSVLS3

03/15/2009, 02:45am

Hi Heath - great to hear from you again. Thanks for your comments too. I've just gone through your pages here and you've achieved a lot, and its looking good! Congratulations on doing all that work yourself. It must be real rewarding to sit back and see what you have achieved.

It was a difficult decision to part with 2T, but at the end of the day I had "been there and done that" with her and more importantly we weren't getting what we wanted from her in terms of cruising. We weren't game to leave her alone in car parks and that really restricted what we could do. The Clubby can be left alone at a much lower risk - thats why I have deliberately kept it all "stealth".

I don't get the looks or comments that I did with 2T, not does the Clubby sound as good. Harvey (the new owner) is a great guy and invited me to join him at the recent Powercruise where I got to see 2T in all its glory going around the track.

I gotta agree that 2T is a more eye catching classic car, but I can get more of what I want now out of the Clubby. My wife will even go on cruises with me in summer now because we now have airconditioning :-)

Cheers, Ian