[BeauRichardson]

Does anyone have any ideas or info on moving the radiator to under the trunk? Fixing to ditch the procharger and go with a big turbo and there just isn’t much room in the engine bay

[olrocker]

Wow that would take some serious engineering if it’s even possible.

[jlaudio11]

A local guy did it on a crank driven procharged GTO but he had to cut the trunk out to fit. The space where the factory airbox used to be I would think would fit a decent size turbo. Routing exhaust out the back would be a challenge but not that much different of a challenge than running coolant lines back and forth to a radiator in the back.

[BeauRichardson]

Originally Posted by olrocker

Wow that would take some serious engineering if it’s even possible.

i’m not an engineer but shoot i’ll give it a shot. why not haha

[BeauRichardson]

Originally Posted by jlaudio11

A local guy did it on a crank driven procharged GTO but he had to cut the trunk out to fit. The space where the factory airbox used to be I would think would fit a decent size turbo. Routing exhaust out the back would be a challenge but not that much different of a challenge than running coolant lines back and forth to a radiator in the back.

i’m always willing to tear some stuff up to make it work. i don’t plan on selling this car ever, so why not you know? The car will be getting some pretty serious work done. all the way from roll cage to rear end, suspension, more motor work (gonna take it out and double check seals and gaskets, swap the crank to a callies, switch up my piston rod combo and go with some diamond pistons, new heads) and gonna do a th400 swap, put it on a holley ecu, fix all the wires in the engine bay to kind of clean things up. I’d really like to get the car to 15-1800

[jlaudio11]

Originally Posted by BeauRichardson

i’m always willing to tear some stuff up to make it work. i don’t plan on selling this car ever, so why not you know? The car will be getting some pretty serious work done. all the way from roll cage to rear end, suspension, more motor work (gonna take it out and double check seals and gaskets, swap the crank to a callies, switch up my piston rod combo and go with some diamond pistons, new heads) and gonna do a th400 swap, put it on a holley ecu, fix all the wires in the engine bay to kind of clean things up. I’d really like to get the car to 15-1800

If you're willing and wanting to do all that, I would step back and look at the car as a whole. Are you trying to run in a specific class or just trying to run as fast as possible? Moving the radiator to the back is nice weight distribution for a no prep or bad surface. If you're going for that much power and trying to go for a 7 seven on a well prepped track, it's going to become a wheelie machine with the factory irs. You may want weight back up front. I'd look at Tim Kings world record car for inspiration on how to go about doing things personally. He just went solid rear axle after some massive wheelies broke the strut towers.

[BeauRichardson]

Originally Posted by jlaudio11

If you're willing and wanting to do all that, I would step back and look at the car as a whole. Are you trying to run in a specific class or just trying to run as fast as possible? Moving the radiator to the back is nice weight distribution for a no prep or bad surface. If you're going for that much power and trying to go for a 7 seven on a well prepped track, it's going to become a wheelie machine with the factory irs. You may want weight back up front. I'd look at Tim Kings world record car for inspiration on how to go about doing things personally. He just went solid rear axle after some massive wheelies broke the strut towers.

i am actually planning on the majority of its races being cash day races so. would obviously do a juice burnout but it would still be kind of a crappy surface. i’m definitely not opposed to going the route of a solid rear end just because i’ve heard from some that IRS can be pretty finicky especially when it comes to wheel hop type crap. in the event that i was having problems with wheelies though i would just put some weight in the front end until it knocked it out