Charged

[sly06]

Hi people. What would be better? A cheap bolt-on Charger or go the whole hog and get a full system rebuild. Or is turbo any better on a 3.6L?

[2_SeeK_U]

Well, depending on how much you want to spend, a turbo setup would be best but this is also the most expensive option. Next, a CRS style blower would give you enough power to play around with if you did abit of head work but l'd rather keep it NA and rebuild the motor. This will give you the least power compared to the other two but you'll have a fresh motor which will cause you less dramas in the future. Also, while you rebuilt the motor you could chuck in a bigger cam, stronger springs, new valves and you could get a slight head port and polish which would really bring the car to life.

BTW: its a 3.8L

[holden007]

I suggest going for the c.o.m.e racing 4.2ltr Stroker with blower/turbo, looking around $6,500 and no engine swap. But with that you might have to think about your trans and diff.

[TheForgotten]

6.5k is for the short motor, you're looking at about 9k for a fully assembled boost capable stroker. god I want one...

but seeing as your car is 12 years old,chances are it has pretty high k's, and possibly had a hard life before you got your mitts on it. I personally would rebuild before any force feeding

[sly06]

Yeah there are a few k's on it 272,000 to be exact.

[greenfoam]

For an easy start into boost, start with the CRS blower or a home made version of that kit, very underated bit of stuff

CRS blower
smaller pulley
2 bar map sensor
bigger injectors
home made tune

That gets you a low-mid 14 second 1/4 mile

Add intercooler and or water injection and zoorst to go into the 13's.

As of right now Iblown (ecotec)
IBLOWN(Video on page 2)

Has run 12.9 (9psi)

And VP_Luke (stock vp engine)
VP_Luke's VP

should be *somewhere* who knows where in the 13's on 7psi, Iblown is and maybe both are faster than the fastest NA V6 in the country stroker or not so that's pretty good