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Originally posted by 91GTturbo
A friend's turbo mustang made 494 rwhp and 536 ft/lbs of torque on 9 lbs of boost in 103* heat. I'm sure that equates to close to 550 flywheel hp. It's his every day driver and drives like stock. His combo: Trick Flow heads and intake, stock cam, bigger fuel system and of course, the turbo kit. Most people would be surprised how well a 500 hp turbo mustang drives. Like Sky said, keep your foot out of it so that it doesn't build boost, and you would never know the car actually makes that much power.
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There's quite a few guys running very low 11's, and a few hitting 10's with their TTA's. That's 500-530Hp, but the kicker is the 3.8 turbo engine puts out more torque than Hp. Another guy had his engine professionally rebuilt and hit the dyno. It hit low 600 Hp and almost 700 ft/lbs of torque before it grenaded. Come to find out the engine builder forgot to tighten down one of the rod cap nuts....oops. Anyhow, the moderately modded 3.8's hitting high 10's to low 11's are daily drivers with excellent drivability. That's the nice thing about a turbo, it's a naturally aspirated engine 'til you kick it in the azz with the boost.
Here's the URL to an older article which profiles Bill Sakes' run in his TTA;
http://www.89tta.com/pounder.htm. I did a search on Google and got some hits. Looks like his best run was a 9.553 @ 141.881mph. He drove the car there and back home with the A/C on. All with a single turbo 4.1 V-6 daily driver.
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Dean
1989 PAS Turbo T/A #1233
*12.93@104mph 3.8 V-6
1987 Grand National
http://www.krif.com/tta/
