Performance News

[-The Stig-]

Originally posted by dbartoschek


All i was stating was that your times were from SE model Bonnevilles, which the majority of which did not have the SC'ed engine....most likely those weren't SC Bonnies

Haha... No your words were...

You are stating SE model 0-60 times....SE's had only 170. or 205hp i believe and were not supercharged....SSEi's were the only trim you could get the SC'ed engine in.

More specifically, you said you couldnt get a SC on a SE... Only came on the SSEi.

Now about the times, True we may not know if they were SC'd but I'm assuming they were cause the person actually ran the car at a track... Im not sure, but if I had performance sedan I'd be curious as to what it ran as well...

[Cbass]

He's in Calgary, he doesn't need cats

You can often get as much as 50% more flow by properly porting the heads, which will drastically increase your power, torque, and fuel economy.

There is always a large amount of casting "flash", extra metal left around the edges from the casting of the head and manifold. Simply by grinding this metal away, and matching the ports and manifold openings to the gasket openings, you can pick up 10-20% higher flow.

The biggest gains by far however, are underneath the valves, in the sort of bowl shaped area... By enlarging that area, you can see an additional 20-30% flow. This all depends on the engine, but the Series 2 Buick V6 is not the most tremendously efficient engine, so I doubt the castings were very clean.

[student_anonymous]

They did a little port work, they wanted to make everything flow a bit better considering the modifications that i wanted.

I figured we'd have to do some port stuff to it, but wasn't sure. I've actually taken the car to a Pontiac dealer in Airdrie (a subsidiarie of Calgary) and their doing port work, increasing that bowel thing you were talking about CBass, and putting on some performance headers that their performance tech recommended for the set-up i have.

Yes, the car does have an intercooler.

I believe the headers they are using are an aftermarket set that was made for the Trans Am, but i'm honestly not sure. The invoice they gave me for the work didn't say what kind they are either. We'll have to see. I am counting on an increase in power and the tech doing the work said i'll probably be able to shave off at least 0.5 seconds from the 0-60 time and make the 1/4 in a low 14 high 13 range. We'll find it all out eventually though.

The project is costing me 2700 bucks, which i think is cheap for a dealership, but the labor costs haven't been counted yet, so i think i'll have to fork out probably another 500 bucks, but that's ok.

I'll keep everyone up to date on this, but i probably won't be back on until after christmas now that i'm back in Calgary from school in Ontario...family and friends to see!

So Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone, and i'll be back on the roads very soon.

Peace! :sun:

[Cyprus106]

I'd just like to say that I, personally, am lazy and I think we could all learn from RedNeck's example by only putting the important things and things people really need to know on all of our posts in bold.

We all know we go babbling off sometimes. Just bold the 4 or 5 words that are the main idea so that we can quickly skim through the posts disregarding all of the stupid crap that you took the time to electronically shit in there. I think that if we all start bolding important information for our posts then we can shave of minutes of the time we waste reading through all of the proprietary words, phrases and sentences.

Remember, Thise few extra seconds wasted we can never ever get back. We should all think of others here. I'll start off by bolding the important information in this post, now that you've already read through all of it and it's a complete waste of bandwidth and time. but we get a new server anyways so who cares? :sun:

[un4gvnbb]

if you dont already have, a turbo and boost timer. if you do have, intercooler