David Buschur's RS goes 9.0, new product release, video and pictures

[David Buschur]

What an absolutely crazy few weeks here at Buschur Racing. It's been nuts!!

Just a few weeks ago we ran 9.7 at 144 on pump gas with my RS and a 9.1 at 154 on race gas. I was amazed then and I still am amazed at that performance.

The car at that time had a completely custom turbo kit on it that I built. The header placed the turbo down low in the front of the car. I was running the FS635 turbo kit on the car at the time on that custom header.

I wanted to build a new turbo kit for the car. Something that I was happy running with a "custom look" but could still offer to our customers too.

I contacted Ron Shearer from Shearer Fabrications and we teamed up with my ideas, his talent and spent a long Saturday at our shop building one bad ass turbo kit. This turbo kit is only available through Buschur Racing and not directly from Shearer Fabrications.

Robert from Forced Performance was also hot to get a turbo back on my car and sent over a new HTA turbo for me to try. The new turbo is an HTA86 compared to the HTA82 we are all familar with.

I spent some time on the dyno with the car to get the new combination dialed in. The power the car is making should be illegal! At 41 psi of boost in 3rd gear on our dyno the car put down 684 whp and 553 ft lbs of torque!

I dyno'd the car right after running the previous 9.1 at 154 and it made 658 whp and 528 ft lbs.

Here are some pictures of the new turbo kit we are releasing immediately:








Here's a picture of how the cover is installed on my car right now:





The kit will come as pictured and we can get into more details as this thread develops, if you have questions just ask and I will fill in more details in a later post here.

9sec9 has been here and we have been working hard on his car the last few weeks too. His goal was to beat the stock appearing turbo record while he was here and after that to move onto a larger turbo. He is sponsored by Forced Performance but we could not get a turbo fast enough so we took my FS635 and installed it on his car. On his 1st full pass with that turbo on his car Monday it ran a 9.20 at 157 mph.

Monday the 13th, we both went to Norwalk for some drag strip testing.

Other than the initial dyno testing to put the kit and new turbo on I didn't have a lot of time with my car the last few weeks. My thoughts of running 8's were not really in my head much as I felt as though I hadn't put the work into the car that I needed too. Little did I know it would be so close and still yet so far from being accomplished.

We made 11 passes with my RS, Kevin Lawson at the wheel. The track in the morning was covered in dew and it was cold. As the day progressed the car got faster until eventually the traction again went away from lack of track prep and a lot of cars running. We had a best 60' time of 1.40 when the car ran the 9.11. The best 60' we could manage was a single 1.426 and the rest were high 1.40's. The car didn't let me down and neither did Kevin. We ran a best of 9.04 at 159.64 mph and another back up run of 9.09 at 157.67 mph! Needless to say I feel the 8's are right there for this real deal street EVO.

As you will see below in the video the car is complete. Jarrod is even riding in the back seat rolling the windows up and down to quiet some recent people saying the doors were gutted and the windows don't operate.

I also really want to point out that the parts that power my EVO are standard parts off our shelves here at Buschur Racing. I don't tell you, as potential customers, that our parts kick butt only to turn around and run other parts. When I say I feel our Race FMIC is the best you can buy I don't put a liquid to air intercooler on my own car. I don't tell you our ignition is the best and then use another race box on my own car. We design it, we build it, we test it and then we run it on our own cars.

Here is another Lumberjack Production from Jarrod here at the shop. Enjoy the video!!

*BAD BISH VIDEO*

[Rogue]

thats nasty.


One question. How does the "half rad" hold up for heat exchange when dd'ing? Traffic/stop n go.. etc

[dd_man]

Something I would like to know as well.

[texas_gsx]

Congrats on the bad ass times!!!

HTA86.........sounds very interesting.

[oofastlineoo69]

that car and set up is just sex ....

[MikeRizz]

Very impressive! It looks like it's on street tires? When I win Powerball, I am writing BR a blank check to build me a duplicate.

[4GOMO]

Makes Me Drool like Pavlov's Dogs!!

[David Buschur]

The radiator has worked out very good on every car we've used it on. I can't say how many of those have been in rush hour traffic, maybe none. I have a more expensive dual pass radiator the same size that I am going to guess would cool better than stock. Remember the a/c condensor has to be removed for this so it helps with the cooling.

[blackout]

Love the turbo kit guys looks great!

[dd_man]

The radiator has worked out very good on every car we've used it on. I can't say how many of those have been in rush hour traffic, maybe none. I have a more expensive dual pass radiator the same size that I am going to guess would cool better than stock. Remember the a/c condensor has to be removed for this so it helps with the cooling.

Is the dual pass radiator offered through Buschur Racing?

[David Buschur]

Since this kit is intended for all weather use and I wasn't quite done when I made the first post about it. I wanted to give some updates.

Here are some pictures of the carbon fiber cover that will be offered with this new turbo kit.

Easy to install. There is velcro on the back side of the carbon fiber plate, you simply reach your hand behind the grille opening and push the velcro on through the other side of the grille opening. It's on there at that point and won't come off until you pull the velcro off from the back side.

The idea of this is of course to keep rain, snow out of the air filter and turbo when driving in bad weather.

[dd_man]

What's the spool time on this beast compared to an HTA35R

[EpicEVO]

Dave with this half radiator do you have to run those AN lines?? Is it possible to run a regular hoses? I ordered the turbo already and now you have me thinking about doing this whole kit.

[texas_gsx]

What's the spool time on this beast compared to an HTA35R

+1

It would be great to get more info on this turbo. Maybe compared to the HTA82 and the HTA88 turbo's. If possible...

[David Buschur]

The spool up is actually pretty close. The dyno results I have are in varied weather conditions and not back to back. I hate to post tests like that as they are not very accurate. I believe the best the HTA82 ever got to 20 psi was about 4800 rpm on my car. The HTA86 does it at about 5,000 rpm.

I will see what I can dig up for comparisons and maybe post a few sheets.

[texas_gsx]

The spool up is actually pretty close. The dyno results I have are in varied weather conditions and not back to back. I hate to post tests like that as they are not very accurate. I believe the best the HTA82 ever got to 20 psi was about 4800 rpm on my car. The HTA86 does it at about 5,000 rpm.

I will see what I can dig up for comparisons and maybe post a few sheets.

Thanks! I look forward to seeing some good accurate proven info from you as always. Even if it takes some time, seeing as how this turbo is fairly new.

[Rogue]

Extremely thoughtful.

Given its velcro - Do you have any problems with ...er.. "high speed" blow off's? etc

Granted not everyone only does 65...

So if say.. vwjeff, or dd_man take their evos out and hit 140+... will it stay put?

[Spoolin0nYou]

Extremely thoughtful.

Given its velcro - Do you have any problems with ...er.. "high speed" blow off's? etc

Granted not everyone only does 65...

So if say.. vwjeff, or dd_man take their evos out and hit 140+... will it stay put?

It's for use in rain & snow. I hope nobody is going 140+ in rain/snow.

[dd_man]

depends on if they plowed the road or not

[David Buschur]

The cover is on there pretty tight. Remember, wind pressure should be pushing it into that grille, so I don't think it's coming off. The velcro comes attached to the carbon piece. The other pieces of velcro you push on through the grille to the carbon piece. I'd like to come up with a "clip" to hold it but I haven't thought of an easy way to do it yet.