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[lneville220]

Hello everyone. I own a 2010 camaro v6 1LT. I am wishing to turbocharge my car myself. A lot of others have done it I see. My problem is.... idk what the hell I am doing. I have watched video after video and I have read through these forums and it only confuses me more. So please answer my questions without hate or point me to the right direction. I would like to find an overall video or thread about how to set up the system and the best way to do it for my specific car. Also I’m pretty novice as you can tell and would like to understand boost, waste hate sizes, etc. Here are a few of my questions...

1. How much boost can I safely use on stock internals?
2. What size turbo should I use? 60-70mm seems popular but is that correct?
3. Where do I find a turbo manifold for this car? I’ve looked everywhere.
4. In your opinion, what is the cheapest yet reliable turbo brand?

[HeritageLS]

Are you trying to do this all yourself or are you going to have someone build it for you?

And you’re looking to piece together everything?


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[HeritageLS]

Also this was just a few clicks away in this sub forum How much boost can the stock internals take?
https://r.tapatalk.com/shareLink?sha...9&share_type=t


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[lneville220]

I’m looking to put it together myself or buy a complete kit. Also that doesn’t quit say, it just says one guy is pushing 17 psi and is doing okay and somewhere else thinks it can’t ha doe 600hp stock

[HeritageLS]

I was trying to give you an estimation of what other people are pushing. There really isn’t going to be a golden number anyway that will be “safe” since each engine will take a different amount of abuse. Start with what’s been known and slowly crank it up until it breaks and you can let us all know lol


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[MagnumForceGB]

Originally Posted by lneville220

I’m looking to put it together myself or buy a complete kit. Also that doesn’t quit say, it just says one guy is pushing 17 psi and is doing okay and somewhere else thinks it can’t ha doe 600hp stock

I'm pushing over 17 PSI on stock internals and running perfect because I tune the car myself and quite a few of the fastest V6's have my fingerprints in them. Controlling detonation/heat is the key part, once there is a significate detonation event it will cause the piston to fall part. The pistons are strong but brittle. The auto transmission can also handle over 800 HP and still shift in 15 milliseconds (stock times are 300 milliseconds) if the transmission tune is correct with the clutch timing events perfect.