Project OVRKILL: The BLING Phase!!!
. Appreciate the words. Hoping it rolls out of the shop tomorrow under its own power....for the first time in 10 years!! 
One more vid fightin a stingy MD. Then on to some details of the experience(s) and results!
So for now, the dust has settled, we've racked up over 200 miles on the dyno, 3 dozen pulls and a **** ton of 5gal "fill-ups". All work done on a MD. According to the shop, they can count the number of N/A cars that hit 600 on one hand.....and those were purpose built 9sec race cars. We hit 614 @ 6600 with a torque peak of 540ft lbs. We hit 620, but was a little lean.
As much as I hate the dyno debate and all the multiple variables in what makes what on what, it's nice to have some local perspective. Locally, this dyno is easily 10% lower than the few known dynojets around town....consistently reads 5% less than their sister dyno across town. Figure in drivetrain losses around 18% (ish) thru a 9", thru a full, dual 3" catted exhaust and its, IMO, fairly impressive for a N/A street build.
Regardless of the dyno bench racing debate, i know MPH will tell all. Wont matter though as I probably wont be able to drive it down a track to back it anyway, so who really gives a ****
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Car is home now, getting things back in order to how it looked at SEMA over the next couple weeks and put some miles on it. As siked as I am about it being on the road, I have to dial it back as this is just the next stage of system "validation". Every mechanical component of this car has been replaced or upgraded. It passed the beating on the rollers....now we have to dial in drivability. More to come....
Little idle vid in the driveway....will post graphs later in the week. Happy 4th all
As much as I hate the dyno debate and all the multiple variables in what makes what on what, it's nice to have some local perspective. Locally, this dyno is easily 10% lower than the few known dynojets around town....consistently reads 5% less than their sister dyno across town. Figure in drivetrain losses around 18% (ish) thru a 9", thru a full, dual 3" catted exhaust and its, IMO, fairly impressive for a N/A street build.
Regardless of the dyno bench racing debate, i know MPH will tell all. Wont matter though as I probably wont be able to drive it down a track to back it anyway, so who really gives a ****
!!!!Car is home now, getting things back in order to how it looked at SEMA over the next couple weeks and put some miles on it. As siked as I am about it being on the road, I have to dial it back as this is just the next stage of system "validation". Every mechanical component of this car has been replaced or upgraded. It passed the beating on the rollers....now we have to dial in drivability. More to come....
Little idle vid in the driveway....will post graphs later in the week. Happy 4th all
Last edited by LPE 403; Jul 3, 2013 at 07:52 PM.
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Thanks guys.....appreciate the words. Its been a battle....
Sanity is in tact....liver is shot though!
Kooks TD's. Bad *** exhaust....bitch to fit, but worth it.
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Little background on a few things not previously discussed. With this less than "conventional" intake, had to relocate a few sensors....IAC, MAP and IAT.
In previous pages, I posted how we had to add vacuum rails to the intake for the IAC. Using a remote style piece, we mounted it jointly to another bracket what carried the breather / catch can. Extending the harnesss and using existing bolt locations from one of the frame rails up front, it couldnt have worked out any better.
IAC and MAP were just as easy. Extend and hide the harness going forward, found some room below the lower headlamp brackets, make a couple mounting brackets and done.
MAP (center of pic)
IAT (center of pic)
Couple random pics of breather can lines (-10) hidden from the top side that run under and around places converging next to the radiator.
And a nice view bottom side.....
Sanity is in tact....liver is shot though!
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Little background on a few things not previously discussed. With this less than "conventional" intake, had to relocate a few sensors....IAC, MAP and IAT.
In previous pages, I posted how we had to add vacuum rails to the intake for the IAC. Using a remote style piece, we mounted it jointly to another bracket what carried the breather / catch can. Extending the harnesss and using existing bolt locations from one of the frame rails up front, it couldnt have worked out any better.
IAC and MAP were just as easy. Extend and hide the harness going forward, found some room below the lower headlamp brackets, make a couple mounting brackets and done.
MAP (center of pic)
IAT (center of pic)
Couple random pics of breather can lines (-10) hidden from the top side that run under and around places converging next to the radiator.
And a nice view bottom side.....
Thanks! Glad we made it....especially on THIS dyno. With the many variables working against us to "make a number", it does validate a lot of what's been done.
Last edited by LPE 403; Jul 7, 2013 at 07:42 PM.
Gonna bust some knuckles tomorrow with the guys tomorrow for a lash adjustment and few tweaks to the tune. Snapped a quick pic before she rolled into surgery...
Professional photo shoot on Sunday...huge (national) local cruise next weekend....
Sorry, I know beauty is in the eye of beholder, but......
