05-19-2022, 09:01 PM
(05-19-2022, 07:47 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: The Buick 3.8L was amazing. My dad had a Grand National and the power was insane. There was an article called "sideways at any speed" and that was pretty accurate. What perhaps amazed me most was how smooth the engine was in that car.
One of my other dream cars is the 1989 20th Anniversary Trans Am because it was powered with the Buick Turbo V6.
It has always been possible to "upgrade" a turbo by replacing it with a larger one. They would produce more peak HP but they would also have more "turbo lag".
But new turbo's are so much more efficient than the ones from the 80's that replacing a turbo with a newer on of the same size will give really big HP gains without more lag. I don't really understand all the details of the new technology but they have "ceramic ball bearings" and shit like that.
