Winter

[Mike_g]

Originally Posted by trbochrgd1

Well, where should I begin.... It really hasn't been a winter project but... I pulled the engine out in March. I had RPE bore it .040 over, stroker crank, forged rods and pistons and RJC girdle with billet main caps. Bobby had a custom comp roller cam shaft made up. I had the heads machined(champion aluminum ported) to accept the new shaft mounted 1.65 T&D rockers, got the new Champion aluminum intake with the billet fuel rails, Accu-fab 70mm throttle body, 96 lb injectors, XFI, had Casper's make up a custom harness new battery cables ,injector harness (Caspers), new Turbonetics GTK-850 turbo, Brian is going to make up a custom 4 inch to 3.5 down pipe with the new Turbonetics race gate, RJC pullies, Champion a/c delete bracket, Cotton's front mount, installing a 8 gallon fuel cell with a 12 -AN feeding an Aeromotive Eliminator pump, 10 -AN going to the rail and 8 -AN return. I am sure I am forgeting something but if I do I will post it!

Oh yeah, while that was all going on I had the car at the body shop and had them sand it to bare metal, cut the crash bars out of the doors, and had it painted. I have pictures of everything.

It's been a long road but it's really start to come together now!

Sonds like shes gonna Scream !!
I remember cutting crash bars out with a dremel and lifting them out through the Window Openings

[trbochrgd1]

Originally Posted by Mike_g

Sonds like shes gonna Scream !!
I remember cutting crash bars out with a dremel and lifting them out through the Window Openings

Yeah it was fun, I actually brought down the plasma cutter from my shop and we cut them out that way. They did a fantastic job on the doors, you can't even notice that they were there.

I really hope she's going to run good.

I forgot to mention in the post that I had gotten everything from Cotton's of course!

[BrianHynes]

Gonna change to aftermaket headers, custom 4" DP from Jack/Brian set up for a T-Netics gate. Also swapping out my stock drivers seat for a Kirkey "pro street" seat so I can keep my foot on the gas @ launch ( Amazing what a XFI file reveals ).

[trbochrgd1]

Originally Posted by BrianHynes

Gonna change to aftermaket headers, custom 4" DP from Jack/Brian set up for a T-Netics gate. Also swapping out my stock drivers seat for a Kirkey "pro street" seat so I can keep my foot on the gas @ launch ( Amazing what a XFI file reveals ).

What headers are you changing to?

[BrianHynes]

Originally Posted by trbochrgd1

What headers are you changing to?

Gonna see if we can massage a set of TA knock offs. If they don't pan out, I'll go with the real macoy. Really though, they looked good from what I saw, and should work just fine with some clean up. I'm also going to have Jack change out the flange to a 4 bolt.

[BrianHynes]

I really like my ported stockers, and I know they are easily capable of a 9 sec pass. The reason for the change is that they are ported real nice and Jet Hotted, and I don't want to cut them for an external gate ( and I really need an external gate ).

[trbochrgd1]

Originally Posted by BrianHynes

Gonna see if we can massage a set of TA knock offs. If they don't pan out, I'll go with the real macoy. Really though, they looked good from what I saw, and should work just fine with some clean up. I'm also going to have Jack change out the flange to a 4 bolt.

Originally Posted by BrianHynes

I really like my ported stockers, and I know they are easily capable of a 9 sec pass. The reason for the change is that they are ported real nice and Jet Hotted, and I don't want to cut them for an external gate ( and I really need an external gate ).

When I was up at the shop, Brian showed me a set of T/A knock off's and ATR Knock off's. They didn't look that bad. He just said he had to cut the ends off of the mating surfaces becuase the metal was so thin and weld new ones on. Also he had to clean the flange ports up a little.

I have a set of older ATR headers that he has there now. I wanted to get them jet hot coated after he makes the downpipe up. I was thinking about getting a set of the knock off T/A's and having him make the downpipe off of them. I don't know what would flow better the ATR's or the T/A's. Brian said he likes making up the down pipe off the T/A's better due to the bend the T/A's make. I think at this point where I am at I'll just leave the ones that I have there and get it over with. I have already made this more of a project than it already was!

What Jet Hot coating do you have on your headers? I was thinking of the high temp sterling they have now. I think it's only good to 1300 degrees tho. Did the coating hold up well for you?

Thanks
Michael