V6 Turbo vs V8 Turbo
This was a delima Lawrence Conley faced 10 years ago. We had the fastest Single Turbo V6 running 7.8's in NMCA's Fastest Street Car Shootout. The only problem was that the competition was running 7.4's. Sure we had a fast car for what it was, But it could not compete with the V8's. We wanted to be the fastest. Alot of people thought we (C.P.P.) sold out and went chevy. All we did was build a car to compete in the class we wanted to. (still remaining Buick at heart) Plus, there was not a Buick powerp plant that would make and survive at the kind of power level we needed.
Whats the most H.P. made by a Buick v6?
It doesn't take that much to make over 2000 H.P. in a v8 (except $$$) Tweaked went 7.75 @ 178 at 2800 lbs, (1300 H.P. on kennys engine dyno back in the mid 1990's)Tweaked II went 6.55 @ 215 at 2950lbs.( well over 2000 h.p.) Never had the guts to strap it down on the dyno.:redface:
I'm a Buick V6 guy at heart, and will always run one in my GN. But if you wanna compete with the V8s on a level playing field, your gonna have to build a v8.
To those of you who wanna build a V8 and put it in you GN . . . Its your car, who am I to say you cant do it. It least that nasty monster is under the hood of a Buick. And to those of you who keep tweak'n them V6's, MORE POWER TO YA!!! Let's giv'em HELL!!!
Just my 2 cents.
CC