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i live a few minutes north of I-10 mobile Alabama,pick me up on the way.we have a couple of extra bedrooms and couches if you need to crash.i just saw the Texas mile on speed.
i bought another hood to have my hood guy make a twin turbo hood with.any ideas?thinking ws6 raised and widened.plus had some kind of heat extractors over the wg's
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i bought another hood to have my hood guy make a twin turbo hood with.any ideas?thinking ws6 raised and widened.plus had some kind of heat extractors over the wg's
mike
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extractors over the waste gate area would be good. Extractors over the manifolds would be good too. Something to get the air in would be nice, depending on filter location.
i used the cold pipes that came with.they lay over the condenser.got the extra hood 200.00 shipped.
should be here tomorrow.
can i use f body 15" wheels and drag radials?or do you have any spares,18x10.5 that i can use on the weekends?i will go with used race tires from e-bay.they wont last long but will be fun.
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should be here tomorrow.
can i use f body 15" wheels and drag radials?or do you have any spares,18x10.5 that i can use on the weekends?i will go with used race tires from e-bay.they wont last long but will be fun.
mike
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i used the cold pipes that came with.they lay over the condenser.got the extra hood 200.00 shipped.
should be here tomorrow.
can i use f body 15" wheels and drag radials?or do you have any spares,18x10.5 that i can use on the weekends?i will go with used race tires from e-bay.they wont last long but will be fun.
mike
working sucks!
should be here tomorrow.
can i use f body 15" wheels and drag radials?or do you have any spares,18x10.5 that i can use on the weekends?i will go with used race tires from e-bay.they wont last long but will be fun.
mike
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Look into a set of C4 wheels with the 8.5" fronts and the 9.5" rears, the rears measure out closer to 10" and there's plenty of available tire sizes to fit them (315/35/17 Mickey Thompson will be the hot ticket).
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I have one set of rear C5 wheels with drags on them. If I ever feel bold, i'll strap on the CCW 16inch rears,..which still require to do some real easy mild grinding on the ball joint.
As mike said...the C4 wheels work great....and have been working great for us for years as a good 17inch combo,..with 315 35 17's...
As mike said...the C4 wheels work great....and have been working great for us for years as a good 17inch combo,..with 315 35 17's...
i bought the rubber already,295/680/18 perrelli p zero race rain.i plain to swap out on week ends.the roads here have allot or river rock that makes it slippery when wet,guys with nttio's stay home.i friend got m/t no word yet.thanks for the 15" answer.i was worried about high speed lateral driving.
mike
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startting another c5 turbo car mid month.anybody have a alt brkt. or should i do the same as i did on mine?
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startting another c5 turbo car mid month.anybody have a alt brkt. or should i do the same as i did on mine?
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i bought the rubber already,295/680/18 perrelli p zero race rain.i plain to swap out on week ends.the roads here have allot or river rock that makes it slippery when wet,guys with nttio's stay home.i friend got m/t no word yet.thanks for the 15" answer.i was worried about high speed lateral driving.
mike
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startting another c5 turbo car mid month.anybody have a alt brkt. or should i do the same as i did on mine?
mike
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startting another c5 turbo car mid month.anybody have a alt brkt. or should i do the same as i did on mine?
Yes, i'm actually terrified of DR's and the rain. I've piloted my car through a crowded innersection one day when it was wet out...just barely wet with my BFG's... omg. Talk about fishtails. **** was wild. I shated right through with no problems,...otherthen the shitty feeling of not being able to control something that you always usually can(in the dry). Wild. Anyways, luckily on that occasion, I did alright for myself.
Now, thats just the wet. I like to be able to make lane changes under throttle at SPEED,....with DR's...... I do NOT feel comfortable due to the side wall slop that I feel. I dunno, maybe it's the doug rippie coilovers making the car super stiff(more then normal for a drag radial).
Anyways,..curious to your pirelli's... I have been to multiple road race events over the years and seen alot of rain tires.... which includes pirelli's....which always looked like a crazy tread pattern.
I don't have another bracket man but,...looking forward to our build.
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for those that said a 2.73 wouldn't work. I gotta tell you,...it works. Very well. Car is nothing near a dog and to be honest, if it wasn't for my TACH reading 1000rpms @ 58mph in 6th gear,...i'd never believe it was a different gear in the car.
Food for thought.
Food for thought.
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Certainly a step in the right direction.
He seems to have a newfound confidence in the cars tractability....he says even if it spins now, its not as violent and much more controllable with the right foot as opposed to the wild things that were happening with the stock gears.
Certainly a step in the right direction.
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The traction is alot better man. Way better. I can honestly not feel a difference in how the car feels, driving normal or not. Except, when I went wot racing a bike the other night. The car does spin the street tires at speeds above 90-100 mph but, before, it would do it all of a sudden @ 130 with the michelin 335's. Causing me to completely lift, which at that speed, and how sideways it gets, you have to. Now, with the 2.73's. I can stay in it, slightly lift(kinda like a power boat,....throttling it, as it goes in and out of the water,...) it's pretty wild, and I wish they're was a dash camera on the front of the bike watching it. It felt crazy, i'm sure it looked and sounded nuts from behind.
Anyways, yes indeed, it has helped. It made my car driveable at WOT at 100+mph without a drag radial,...which to me, is priceless
Considering he saw 24-25 MPG on the way home from the dyno while cruising at like 85 mph with the 3.42, yeah, I'd guess he could see some stupid numbers with the 2.73s!
He seems to have a newfound confidence in the cars tractability....he says even if it spins now, its not as violent and much more controllable with the right foot as opposed to the wild things that were happening with the stock gears.
Certainly a step in the right direction.
He seems to have a newfound confidence in the cars tractability....he says even if it spins now, its not as violent and much more controllable with the right foot as opposed to the wild things that were happening with the stock gears.
Certainly a step in the right direction.
I'll try it later on tonight or tommorw. Mattdawg wants to see it so, maybe i'll drive it there tonight. The car does hook much better but, i'll be having a tire on it for slow speeds.
When I first asked him how it felt, he said that at first he was sure someone had swapped the 2.73s out of the rear and replaced them with 3.42s, until he looked at the tach at 60 MPH and saw no RPM...so my impression that having 700 ft/lbs should allow you to run any gear you want seemed to be dead on.
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MN6 hommie. The car drives nice and smooth,..drives really normal. It honestly feels no different. If I stab it from a DEAD stop, with no clutch dump, it is a DOG up until i'd say 37ish MPH,...then it comes on strong from there. If I SHIFT really LAZY,..(like not trying to race anyone)...it'll fall off a tad to where it's still pulling but,..give it a literal second, and it's right back to making alot of power/pulling.
But, if I shift quickly, it still blisters the tires off the car,..even drag radials. So, I personally have no problem with keeping the 2.73 in my car forever at the moment. Maybe, MAYBE i'd try a 3.08 or 3.15 tjust to see but, I really like this gear right about now.
Also, it's good to know that my camshaft is more of an MID to UPPER rpm performaing camshaft soo, which is designed for a 3.73 or so gear....so, the car, given a "proper" turbo camshaft, could probably get the car to perform better down low but, honestly, I have a two piece cam door,...and I don't see myself changing camshafts on this setup anytime soon.
