Yeah I’m pretty fortunate to have E85 all around where I live. I have 3 turbo cars (2 Hondas) and run it in all of them. It’s funny my S2000 and my Iroc are pretty much tied in a roll race with the S2K at 20psi. The Honda feels so much faster being a manual trans but amazingly the Iroc hangs right with it even though it feels so slow and boring lol.
I haven’t made very many Iroc videos this year, but there are few newer ones on my YouTube channel.
The Iroc got the snot beat out of it at Powercruise and never missed a beat. My friend Mike blew up his turbo LS swapped Dakota the day before the event so I offered for him to run home and grab the Iroc so he wasn’t bumming so much all weekend. I was feeling pretty good considering I had two cars up there and they both came home without any major issues!
Here is my YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/ryguy440

How is your car runnng?

It’s funny you say that about EBay stuff because I haven’t noticed that at all. I just bought a 3” thick core bar and plate intercooler about 2 yrs ago for the Honda and I believe it was around $100 shipped. Wastegates are still dirt cheap ($50-$100) too, at least the stuff I have seen. I have yet to have any issues with any of the eBay stuff I have ran, the original wastegate has been on the camaro now for like 6 years and tens of thousands of miles and I haven’t even touched it.

Theres a few 200$ and under in 4” core 3” inlet. The 300$ ones are mishimoto and those really arent that cheap of a cooler. They actually do make ok stuff it seems. Cxracing is still 198$

There are a few vendors that try to sucker a sale by way overlisting the same coolers. Theres one on there for 415 and 1217$ haha basic 200$ cxracing

Yeah what’s with the random over priced stuff? I doubt they sell many but I guess if the get someone to fall for it every once in a while it’s worth it. I’ve never bought anything other than the cheapest bar/plate intercooler I could find on eBay for all three of the cars I’ve turbo’d. They seem to work well IAT-wise but I wonder if there could be much difference in restriction vs a “name brand” much more expensive intercooler. I’d be surprised if there was a significant difference but maybe. I’d assume the cores gotta be pretty similar.

Ha well I’m not familiar with your setup but my 17 psi isn’t really making that much power since I’m running mediocre flowing Vortec heads and a small cam. I don’t spin it past 6K and it’s probably making around 500 whp. I guess it’s still decent for an all cast stock bottom end SBC but I’m sure guys have ran higher without issue and others with carnage at lower hp levels. My engine has the newer style powdered metal rods which I’m not really sure if that’s a good thing or not.

One thing nice is that it’s a pretty good bang for the buck combo for a gen 1 SBC . I’m ok without an LS