I have the lil 3.4 Camaro as a work car . My driving environment is a lil different. You can also look at reducing weight. I’ve warmed my suspension first…. I would like to chat with someone who has done a turbo on this model

 

Turbos will not work well on the 3.4, the exhaust ports are to small to support much more hp then it comes with. The turbo will fill the cylinder but if you can not empty the cylinder fast enough it just chokes the motor. For that reason you will find very few people that have modified the 3.4 no less put a turbo on it. When you look at the HP to weight ratio in a 4th gen it is just not worth spending the money to end up slower than economy rental car. This is a result of the original design. Back in 1982 when the 2.8 (the 3.4 block) was released the V8s where under 150 HP and the 2.8 had 102 HP. No one ever though air flow would be an issue, nor did they think 185 HP would be possible.

This is also why there are very few manufactures that sell parts to modify your 3.4. Its tuff to justify even a cam swap when you are talking about a 15 hp gain. Even the 3800 that is known to hit 300 hp is getting hard to find part options for. The general public does not want to mess with a 300hp V6 when they can go to a junk yard and buy a 6.0 and swap the heads with a good set and add a cam and a tune and hit 500 hp and drive the car everyday if they want. Even the LT1 V8s are loosing support. If they had not put them in vets support would be mostly gone now.

 

Best way is to sell it and buy a V8 car,it will be cheaper quicker to get done and a much faster more reliable car.

 

I know this is an old thread...but wow have times changed. My Colorado V6 is pushing 308 HP stock. Pretty crazy how it has more HP than the famed LT1s in the 1990s era camaros.