Turbo Hookup????????????

Bill Dedman said
Tom Wolfe (Shaker 223) built a stock motor with a Buick Turbo that ran 12.95 @ 104 mph, and when I say "STOCK MOTOR," I think e had pretty much exactly what you have; a 2bbl "Super Six" intake with a stock exaust manifold that had a turbo mounting flange welded to it, and dialed back the ignition timing to about 18 degrees... everything else was pretty much stock (OEM.)

Here's what Wallace computers has to say about a 3300 pound car with 300 horsepower.

Your ET / MPH computed from your vehicle weight of 3300 pounds and HP of 300 is 12.95 seconds and MPH of 103.43 MPH
Funny; that's almost exactly what Tom's car turned by bolting that turbo onto his othewise stock engine.

I don't think the driveability was affected at all; dunno about fuel economy.

Tom, can you shed any light on the fuel mileage after the turbo?

Hope this helps.

The slant we did was a 1972 model from California which had different emmission standards and was rated at only 105 HP. It was all stock at first witht he Buick turbo, but when the car was driven hard it would peg the temperature guage. One night when it happened we popped the hood to see that the exhaust manifold was slightly orange from being extremely hot. The emmission Rochester carb was very lean and not suited to our purpose so we put a Holley 750 on it which cured the problem. As we kept increasing boost thogh it would detonate at times so we added a lever switch under the secondary actuating pushrod. As soon as the secondaries opened up even just a little, the switch would close and trigger a windshield washer pump in a seperate tank that held a 50/50 mix of water and methynol. The mixture ran through a hose up under the air filter and sprayed into the top of the carb. Since there was only 1 hole into the intake manifold, we didn't feel that cylinder to cylinder distribution would be an issue. It really helped alot. Eventually though the boost was raised to 15 PSI and the engine couldn't take it anymore. It burned the center 2 pistons down the sides pastt he rings. I believe that those 2 cylinders were getting the most charge due to their shortest length. If I do one of these again, it will be with an aftermarker intake or a homemade unit. Nice thing about that Holley, even though it was very big for this engine, it never hessitated or bogged at any point. I believe that the mixture got well dis

persed as it went through the compressor wheel. Bill