Eastern Members - Got my Daily into the 9's

Big thanks to don aka Slowhawk Performance for helping me out big time!


Long story short i had a black 99 T/A that was my Daily with a turbocharged Lq4 , stock ported 317 heads and nitrous cam. it ran 10.50's weighing 3860 without me in it. last winter i got T-Boned so i gutted it and bought a donor.
Plan was , lighter , faster , stronger.

It is an 01 SOM Firebird , Ebony cloth manual interior, and a hardtop. I wanted the lightest possible Platform.
Over the winter i built this car in house at Slowhawk , Because i work there.

I worked VERY VERY hard to keep this car my Daily. Its easy to go fast, gutting cars and putting parts in them looking for power and losing drive-ability but that was unacceptable for this car.

I Daily drive this car, 45 miles to work and back everyday 7 days a week. Drive it to the track 115 miles from my house and back, 3.25's and OD are great :)


Slowhawk Performance tune
ls2 402
stock ported heads
Very mild Comp Cam , custom grind spec'd by slowhawk
stock 4l80e with a HD2 shift kit
Tv7401 Garret 71mm turbo
3.25 gears in a Fab 9 midwest chassis rear.

Full 100% stock interior , only added the 6 point wolfe cage.
Car made 680/650 on slowhawks mustang dyno.
weighs 3610 with me in it.

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr123/mikalmyerz1031/IMG376.jpg

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr123/mikalmyerz1031/IMG384-1.jpg

Drove it to NED to make my first shakedown pass just to see where i stood...........well ...

1.71 60ft
6.40 1/8
117 mph
9.80 1/4
144 mph

video
http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr123/mikalmyerz1031/th_036-1.jpg (http://s476.photobucket.com/albums/rr123/mikalmyerz1031/?action=view&current=036-1.mp4)
Dyno
http://youtu.be/wchNTy3RM-c

coolest thing I've seen in a while. DD 9s is absurd.

Jizztacular...


love the sunburnt/black combo....

and the 9.80's on a DD with a 1.71 sixty... shit... you can be in the 8's with a good sixty

Bad ass

I saw you run this car at Slowhawk! Your car put some serious power through the stock exhaust.. Then you opened the dump! What was it, 150HP restriction? If you remember, we talked a bit about turbos. I own the 87 GN that was put on the dyno.

Nix

Car came out really nice, congrats on 9's.

"Woaahhhhhhh!"

Thats awesome. Sick work

Way to go Sam, car is sick!

I saw you run this car at Slowhawk! Your car put some serious power through the stock exhaust.. Then you opened the dump! What was it, 150HP restriction? If you remember, we talked a bit about turbos. I own the 87 GN that was put on the dyno.

Nix

Thanks everyone and ya it lost 180 hp through the factory T/A catback lol

Car is plain sick!

That car is ignorant!

Love the black hood and headlamp covers! I'm sure it looks real menacing if your looking at it in the rear view mirror. Plus it's pretty damn fast too!

Awesome job, wish I could see the video at work!

awesome ride , i love that you drive it so much , awesome just awesome and even better it being a hardtop formula , i was certain their were no hardtop som formulas made

I loved seeing this car in person. Awesome job!

This is a true mid 9 sec car you can drive every day, and with the exhaust setup its tamer than most header/catback cars. You would never know you were about to get destroyed, haha.

60 footing with a 4l80e and a tight converter under boost is not easy either.

Great job all.

I plan on playing with the launch at NED fri night. I havnt even tried to leave hard yet. Mainly just going up there to have some fun.

I might make it up there to run the Buick.

Nix

I plan on playing with the launch at NED fri night. I havnt even tried to leave hard yet. Mainly just going up there to have some fun.

Oh yeah... 10bolt.....

No she's got a 9 inch in her now. First post. :)

No she's got a 9 inch in her now. First post. :)

Perfect give her hell :)

Nice Sam...for anyone who hasnt seen the car it's done really neat. Most people just hack away until everything is installed, this car looks like a fair amount of time was put into how everything will last and hold up after a few years.

You removed the AC right? I'm one of the 3% of people who has to have an AC, I'm always sweating like I'm 550 pounds on a hot summer day.

Congradts! Thats sick. Hows the prostars holding up on the street? Im looking into getting a pair for my car but scared if they get crack or bend from daily driving

That is crazy big MPH. Hell of a ride!

:eek: Holy Chit !

you made alot more power on that dyno than i did! hahahahaha. Nice Job!

I saw this car yesterday when I brought my car to Slowhawk for a dyno tune. Whisper quiet when running on the stock exhaust. You'd never know it was a monster, but it is. Clean car too! Very nice job man! Oh and a big thanks to Slowhawk for the dyno tune. My car drives 10x better!

nice formula. just goes to show you don't need anything exotic and you don't need to re-invent the wheel to go fast. 144mph is flying that car has way more in it! and it's 3600lbs...

jmho it'll look way better with a 28" tire

nice formula. just goes to show you don't need anything exotic and you don't need to re-invent the wheel to go fast. 144mph is flying that car has way more in it! and it's 3600lbs...

jmho it'll look way better with a 28" tire

Ya my 275/50's are about to start getting low on tread, at least for daily driving so ill probably try a 275/60 just to see how it likes it.

Damn nice job-9.8's on a 26" tire with your DD. :D
Who do you think you are anyway? You're not supposed to be able to do that. :drive:

converter?

turbo setup/kit?

pics of setup?

He has a post in the fi section with more pics

converter?

turbo setup/kit?

pics of setup?

Yank 3400

Custom front mount that slowhawk fab'd up for me.

link to a few pics
http://ls1tech.com/forums/forced-induction/1549516-got-my-daily-into-9s-build-thread.html





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looks good!

Painted the hood and stuff. :)

http://i476.photobucket.com/albums/rr123/mikalmyerz1031/2012somhood076.jpg

Looks great! I really like the SOM color. If I were to buy an F-Body, it would be that color.

Nix

Looks a million times better.

This car is my idol! Love it! : )

I like it better w/ the new paint, looking sweet.

I was just gonna post something asking to see the hood.

The hood looks really nice, wow.

Your car is build in a way others have always tried to mimic and with good cause. Your car is clean, neat, simple, not tacky, not overly done and it doesn’t have any major weak points. The biggest thing is it’s totally streetable.

Don should offer it as a total package kind of like what Hennessey and Lingenfelter. It’ll be called something like “SHP650”…Slowhawk Performance 650. Offer it as a total package, one flat rate and all of the parts and labor are figured in. I know Don’s already doing something of the sort but it’s good marketing and kind of shows you have a service that can be reliably duplicated and it’s offered to the masses (markets itself as something everyone wants and needs).

Your car is build in a way others have always tried to mimic and with good cause. Your car is clean, neat, simple, not tacky, not overly done and it doesn’t have any major weak points. The biggest thing is it’s totally streetable.

Don should offer it as a total package kind of like what Hennessey and Lingenfelter. It’ll be called something like “SHP650”…Slowhawk Performance 650. Offer it as a total package, one flat rate and all of the parts and labor are figured in. I know Don’s already doing something of the sort but it’s good marketing and kind of shows you have a service that can be reliably duplicated and it’s offered to the masses (markets itself as something everyone wants and needs).

Or the "9 sec daily driver" package.

I am always trying to convince myself to stay away from the $FI$ world, but this is not helping. :)

Oh will you just stop complaining about the cost......support the economy dude; be an American.

Looks awesome Sam!

Your car is build in a way others have always tried to mimic and with good cause. Your car is clean, neat, simple, not tacky, not overly done and it doesn’t have any major weak points. The biggest thing is it’s totally streetable.

Don should offer it as a total package kind of like what Hennessey and Lingenfelter. It’ll be called something like “SHP650”…Slowhawk Performance 650. Offer it as a total package, one flat rate and all of the parts and labor are figured in. I know Don’s already doing something of the sort but it’s good marketing and kind of shows you have a service that can be reliably duplicated and it’s offered to the masses (markets itself as something everyone wants and needs).

Thanks Dieso! But theres alot of work that went into getting this car to do what it does, and how it does it. Unfortunately its not something you can just offer as a "package".....Way to many hours of labor.

Dont get me wrong, in this day and age building a 9 sec car that you could drive daily is seemingly "Simple" in most eyes...... ,Forged motor + Auto+ big turbo+ strong rear + light car = 9's..........



But for some reason, too many find out all to quickly that

A: It's NOT cheap , and
B: It's NOT so "simple".

For a car like sams with mostly all new parts would be 50-60k to duplicate. More than half that is labor. I would think about 200- 250 hrs to do.

And 80% of those hours is all Fab work. It's definitely not cheap. By the time you buy all the fittings and adapters you need you will want to shoot someone. What you running for fuel pumps? Twin in tanks?

Yup. 2 intank aeromotive 340's with the second one pressure activated.

Like Don said, all new parts would run you up there! I budget built the crap out of this thing!

Yikes.... ok well that makes sense.