Does anyone road race a turbo car?

[Corvette_Zach]

I know audi and them do up in ALMS, but has anyone ever taken say a civic or camaro and turboed it, then blasted around the track for 30 minutes or an hour with this aftermarket turbo. I see even some evos/wrx's are over heating after being on the course for a bit, and they were enginered to be on the car from the factory.


So anyone ever successfuly do it?

[andrewbrilliant]

me.. turbo supra, turbo miata, turbo eclipse on the road course. Heat issues are under control on our cars... well mostly anyway

[Varkwso]

I know audi and them do up in ALMS, but has anyone ever taken say a civic or camaro and turboed it, then blasted around the track for 30 minutes or an hour with this aftermarket turbo. I see even some evos/wrx's are over heating after being on the course for a bit, and they were enginered to be on the car from the factory.


So anyone ever successfuly do it?

Current factory cars that are successful at it are rare. The Porsches leap to mind as being good at it. The latest Ford GT500 is not. The Solstice seemed to do well in SCCA racing.

I do not see very many aftermarket systems on the podiums in club racing though.

[geoffm]

with any production car they are not designed for racing add a turbo to the mix and watch out now u need eather a cooling restrictor to slow the flow of coolent colder heat rang spark plugs lower thermostate and maby a bigger radiator

[geoffm]

camaro zach yes its possible and your camaro is a very good canadate to get a turbo put on it ls6 cam and springs + a turbo at 6-8 psi and a mega squirt efi controler,36 pound injectors,msd ls1/6 ingition controller and wala 500+ hp and about the same in tourque