Project Turbo/Cam 10 Camaro SS

[turboneticsSS]

Ok, so I'm finally getting around to doing a write up on my car, Ill try to keep updating it with pictures as I find them on my old computer. It won't be too in depth right now because I'm just using this to procrastinate. How do you post pictures?

[Senor_Taylor]

Host on photobucket or imgur then post the link invbetween two [img] tags.

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[turboneticsSS]

Thanks Taylor, Ill post some up

[turboneticsSS]

Ok, I'll get it started with a quick recap of my old car; an 08 mini cooper s, I did a nice bit to it so it made just short of 300fwhp. Long story short, it torque steered like a mother f***er so I decided it was time for a change to a rwd or awd platform. So I came up with a list of what I liked for my price range; evo x, sti hatch, srt8 challenger, mustang 5.0, and the camaro ss. For many of my reasons I settled on the camaro.



After a Christmas loan from my parents(now paid off) in December of 2011 I became the new owner of a 2010 camaro ss.



First came the idea of what black wheels would look like so plasti dipped the stock ones to see how it looked



Then came a cat back exhaust, because that stock exhaust is not only quiet but very heavy, I decided on a pipes mid muffler cat back since it was a local company, my guess is around a 40lb weight drop there, no pics I can find.

Then came the lowering, so I decided on pfadt lowering springs, nothing too crazy with a 1.2" drop, having a hard time finding pics right after this, not too long after that and on the way home from a JMU college visit, I bought some matte black tsw interlagos in 20x9 and 20x10.5, all in all the heavy camaro lost 45lbs of rolling weight, felt good.




Gotta go work out, stay tuned for more.

[Senor_Taylor]

Very nice! Can't imagine you in a mini.

[turboneticsSS]

Ok, to continue the story;

at this point I wasn't sure what i was going to do power wise, but I got a good deal on some doug thorley 1 7/8" long tube headers which were nice, and sounded great but without a tune I had a cel so I was actually not making much more power than with just the cat back, with the cel on I managed to just cut into the 12's in the 1/4 mile.



Also some time around this point is when I went with technostalgia full led afterburner tail light, a real clean stock led look.



Ok, about here is when I started seriously looking at power adders, and decided on the turbonetics t76 turbo kit and jba cat res/cat delete pipe, I was unbelievably excited when I got this and didn't have time to put it in since I had school and my car wasn't here because it was my freshman year. Per recommendation from a trusted friend I was directed to a guy in Maryland who said he could do the install at a pretty reasonable price… biggest mistake ever, long story short after 3 and a half months of him making excuses I had a tow truck go get my car, which was in pieces, I even had to threaten to call the cops to get him to release my car, after the scratches he put in my car and taking $1k from me I got my non functioning car back. When I got it back I went ahead and took off everything he tried to install and made sure it worked, and it did. After a month or so of driving it normally I went ahead and started the install myself with a knowledgable buddy, it proved not to be bolt on because, lets be honest no turbo kits are.



After all this waiting to install the turbo, I went to load up the box tune so I could get it to my tuner for a dyno tune, but what do you know they forgot to load it onto the tuner, after another couple of days working with customer service I got it and was able to get to my tuner. Got to the tuner and found out I was an idiot and gapped the plugs wrong but was already late to a wedding so I had to reschedule. Take two, on the next break I got to there and some how my car was dyno'ing in the 300's whp, after getting ready to pull the entire front off again to look for a boost leak I saw that there was a big ass break in the intake tube, fixed that a bam, best pull was 556rwhp @ around 6 lbs of boost. Had to unlock the torque converter though because it was slipping so that backed it down to 526rwhp.



Not too long after I had to upgrade my fuel pump and for my goals at the time the ZL1 fuel pump was fine, little bit of a pain because I had to pull out everything under the car to pull the fuel tank but I got it done.

Up next was some hotchkis front and rear sway bars which made a massive difference with the lowering springs.



Now I'm just loosing focus so I'm going to speed this up, there were some week parts of the kit, but the big parts were solid(turbo, intercooler, wastegates), changed plugs, air filter, etc, then changed to a bigger filter again.



Up next and I don't remember which order but I got a seibon carbon fiber trunk and hood too loose some weight and vent the heat. Also, I had heat soak issues with my starter so I had to heat sleeve a new starter and that fixed the problem with it barely starting.



What else?? ummmmmm, eagle f1 supercar 305/35/20, they sucked so I went with 275 nitto invos on the front and when the f1's are done invos are going on the back. After getting my ass handed to me by a car with half the power at east side dragway because I was spinning so much I got a set of 18x10.5 of my tsw interlagos and wrapped them in some 305 nitto nt05r's and wow they're awesome. Those who have seen my car lately know that I dipped my stock wheels lime green for my winter setup so theres that. Oh yea, I put some ceramic pads and slotted/drilled rotors on it at some point. Here she is as she sits today for the most part.






Winter Setup




Hopefully over spring break I will be installing these, loose around 90 lbs between the driver and passenger seat, and maybe the harness bar w 4 point harnesses down the line a little. If I forgot anything Ill try to remember to post it.




Oh yea, 1000hp DSS half shafts, and a soon to be installed HAVOC diffuser.

[Senor_Taylor]

I've got a pic of the green wheels if anyone wants to see. I honestly like these better than the new, lighter ones.

[rherold9]

Slow

[D_Eclipse9916]

Nice, impressive numbers.

[Senor_Taylor]

Slow

Yeah, the time I beat Scott by 10 car lengths in my truck is the best kept MM secret.

[WRXtranceformed]

Love it man, impressed that you installed the turbo kit yourself after rightfully pulling it from that shop's grasp. Curious as to the decision to go the FI route over NA mods. I was under the assumption you can make big reliable power with those motors without adding boost.

[ScottyB]

badass!

[turboneticsSS]

I went FI because it's still my daily and under 3k when full boost comes in it drives like a normal SS, no hard idle or anything and another big thing was I would keep somewhat good gas mileage (14-15 city) (22-24 hwy). Eventually I'll do a cam and build the engine, but first I have to build the trans and do a built diff aka $$$$$$, so for now I'm just focusing on maybe a little more power and make it a little less of a pig with weight.

[nismosam]

I'm so glad you went back to the straight pipe exhaust haha it sounds so much better now

[Senor_Taylor]

Straight pipes? This'll be my first time hearing that!

[turboneticsSS]

Sorry I haven't looked at this in a while, went FI because its a daily now, and I can still make reliable power and not completely kill my gas mileage, and ultimate goals will be a built motor, cam, and the whole 9 yards, maybe once I graduate and get a career going and have $$ Ill aim for 1000whp, this summer Im either going with a 7575 and that should be around 700whp @ lbs of boost, or a daily driver.

[rherold9]

1000whp or bust

[turboneticsSS]

lmao, next time I have an $15k+ for the motor and trans build, Ill go big

[turboneticsSS]

Sooooo, its blue now, not too much has changed, I need a retune for the 9lbs of boost, oh and I have tial f38's on now which fixed my boost creep problems.

[Sully]

Dip or wrap?