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Originally Posted by INTMD8
I'm curious, why run rear mount turbos with all the room in this car?
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Weight, Balance, Price
1) Weighs less
You don't end up with the humgunous headers under the hood with the turbos out in-front of it. You don't need mufflers and you just run the OEM cast iron headers.
2) Chassis balance
By getting all that weight that would be the turbos, headers, intercoolers and piping back in between the wheels instead of out in front you you'll reduce the amount of inertial momentum of the car and lower the CG of the car but will help largely with handling.
3) Price
No elaborate custom headers, no high flow mufflers, no real need to spend money on ported heads or really exotic intakes. All the things you would normally need to spend lots of money on to make that kind of power you get to save. HP to Dollar its hard to see any other combination that will put you into the 600-700 HP range for the same money and still give you room to grow later on.
Bang for the buck its what I really like to do. I would even run a 5.3L but I already had the 6.0L from the PT-57 project so I'm running with it.