bigboykilroy

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I'm sure miss having ya down the street from us. You still need to come back up and run at Thompson with Chris and I.

noyz1

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great build- love the numbers. I'm also building a LSX454 can't wait to get it into the car

JaSSon

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Gerald is the reason I bought TEA and Im glad I did. My little setup has been going for 5 years without even a spring change. It real quick for what it is.

amwellls1

Nice set up Brian, I just called up TEA to talk to you and found out you were semi retired

Brian Tooley Racing

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YES IT IS, your practically famous around TEA, your screen name and results have been talked about a lot. Good luck with your new setup!

Paint_It_Black

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Oh say it isn't so! There's no way you can make so much torque so early with such a large split! You need reverse split cams for increased low and mid range and typical 4 degree splits with giant intake lobes to make top end power!

/sarcasm off

I do wonder what it would have done on it's intended ICL.

Beaflag VonRathburg

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I noticed after reading this over again that you're running turned down ls3 valves. What is the minimum size you can turn them down to?

Brian Tooley Racing

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As far as I know.... the head of the valve is solid, so I would say all the way down to 2.02". I'm pretty sure we've turned the LS3 valves down to 2.055" before.

I think it's a killer valve, a standard 2.10" stainless valve that comes in a TFS 245 is around 115 grams, and the stock LS3 is 89 grams, turned down to 2.10" it's 87 grams.

2000_SS

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hey i've got an off-the-wall question regarding those valves...if you had a set of pistons with valve reliefs set up for the TEA TFS 245's and were switching to a head with LS3 valves, would anything be affected, or would there be PTV issues?

Brian Tooley Racing

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If the valves are turned down to 2.10", like a standard TFS 245 uses, then no, there will not be any PTV issues. If anything, the LS3 margin is slightly thinner which would result in more PTV, but we are talking .005"-.010", which is negligible.

Now if you switch back to a 15 degree LS3 head with 2.16" stock diameter valves, then you might have a problem.

The Wiseco pistons I have feature the "multi-fit" valve notches, which will accomodate everything from a stock 15 degree LS1 up to a 12 degree LS7.

QuickSilver

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VERY impressive Brian. We will talk if i ever build anything again.
Hopefully we can all meet up and have some fun before to long.


Me in Texas you in Kentucky and Nick and Brian in Ohio may make things kinda hard though.

69_YENKO

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Awesome combo Brian! I was wondering what crazy new setup you were going to build after I picked up your old topend.

LSxPwrDZ

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I didn't know you were in KY now! Heck I'm just around the corner in Harrodsburg. Do you have a shop in Bardstown?

whtrashferrari

congrats! dyno results look great!

180ls1

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awesome build

The1N_only

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Brain,
What are the details on the "Special set of TFS 245" head entails. I am looking to have LME build me a LSX 451 with the TFS 245 for my 06 Corvette. I’m shooting for 600 rwhp. How much will the Nitrous port help with a 250-300 shot of nitrous? I’m currently running a set of 1 7/8 American Racing Headers and I’m looking at a set of 2" headers as well.

Sorry to side track you thread just looking for some details. Congrats on your build, it sounds like a beast!

Brian Tooley Racing

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No shop, but would love to hang, PM me sometime.

The details are in my first post, but I'll copy them below. On the exhaust port, I had a customer spraying 500 shot of N2O pick up 75 rwhp over the standard exhaust port, so it's a good port. The only other thing "special" was the time I spent port matching the heads to the intake. If I can help you with port matching or cam specs let me know.

The heads feature standard intake ports and chambers, the intake valves are LS3’s turned down to 2.10” and weigh 87 grams. The exhaust port is a special nitrous exhaust port that can be cut into ANY CNC TFS LS head made. This exhaust port requires a special 50 degree valve job which I ran on my old engine for a couple of years without wear, so I had no reservations with running it. I turned the exhaust valves down to 1.58” because I felt that is all the engine needed. The thinking with this N2O exhaust port on this engine is the fact that we were only running 1 7/8” headers, and it is 454 cubic inches, so we needed all the exhaust flow we could get. The 50 degree seat actually reduces flow at very low lifts, which reduces over scavenging during overlap, which is critical for helping a long runner intake make peak power.

Reckless

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That C5 has seen a few combos over the years dude! Great numbers! Any track time yet?

Brian Tooley Racing

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Just got the engine back from CA a couple of weeks ago and got it in the car last week, so no track times yet. I'm at SAM in Houston this week and maybe next week, but hope to have some track times by the first week of Sept. I don't expect it to be super fast, because I'm just not going to work at it that hard, but it would be great if it will go 9's on motor.

GrannySShifting

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Looks stout Brian, if it doesnt go nines on the motor, Ima kick you in the shins when Im in KY in a few weeks