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Originally Posted by gipper72488
haha yeah thats why i said race from a roll lol. the turbo im using is pretty small so its gonna have almost no turbo lag. which means that i wont be preloading at the track in hopes of getting decent traction with it lol. i really wish that 3sx and dr, and ips and all would actually produce some nice cams for the sohc. *HINT HINT HINT* thats what really holds them back, as brent has already found out on his turbo sohc. but hey, maybe once enough people can see that that it really doesnt cost that much to make the kits, they'll just do it themselves and all the performance shops that could have put their names on the map with sohc parts, will have just lost all the money that they could have made.
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I highly disagree. The SOHC performance market is small at best. Shops like IPS, DR, 3sx etc would not benefit from making many SOHC specific parts. 3sx has headers, the SOHC lightweight pulley, and MSD's made for the SOHC.
I can almost guarantee their SOHC buyers are few and far between and business would not boom because they offered cams or anything else. It would end up costing them more money in R&D than they would make with the few SOHC modders out there.
Also your post about SOHC turbo manis for $500 is wishful thinking. Again, R&D would make them cost closer to $1500. Theres a long thread about a company out west (the name escapes me right now) attempting to make a kit. At first the plan was to make them just to use stock TT parts, then they realized it just wasnt feasible and fabbed up a single kit using a T3/T4 turbo.
After all was said and done the thread sort of died due to lack of progress and the fact that the kit itself was going to be so expensive, then you'd have to get the turbo, fuel, management, etc etc etc.
So a long story summed up is that SOHC guys are going to be stuck making custom manifolds if they insist on turboing the SOHC.