Interest in Performance Parts for slants?
Hey guys, I'm headed off to college (IUPUI) for Motorsports Engineering. I'm just curious on the interest level in for performance parts for Slants.
Gimme your $.02!!!!
Here's mine: I think there's a viable market for an affordable, compact, slant six turbo header.
Because of the slant six's inherent design parameters (narrow bore-spacing; small bores) getting big valves into the limited room (unless it's a 4-valve head... $$$$) makes a good breathing head an expensive proposition.
That fact makes turbocharging a potentially attractive idea to some, but the difficulty in coming up with an effficient turbo header makes actually going this route a hard thing to deal with. I am sure that there are a lot of slant six owners who would like to try a turbo on their engine who shy away from the prospect because of this issue.
My partner and I spent about $1,000.00 on our one-off turbo header and it is far from ideal. It's too big and has far too much surface area (to radiate heat) and could easily be improved on, with a smaller, more compact design.
Here's a picture of the one we have, but as I said, it is not very representative of the optimum design. A shorter, more direct configuration would be cheaper and probably work better. Aaron (srixon4406) is building such a header.
Think about it...
