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Old Jul 23, 2007 | 05:27 PM
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I'm selling my car. It's a 1998 Silver Formula.

Mods
Performance
233/235 .644/.594 112+2LSA Cam
Ported heads (good job done by prev. owner)
PRC gold dual springs (rated to .650 lift)
LS6 intake (painted silver to match car)
titanium retainers
TSP hardened 7.425" pushrods
new valve locks and spring seats
COMP lifters (15k miles)
NGK TR55 spark plugs
MSD wires
ASP Underdrive Pulley
Suncoast creations airbox w/ K&N filter
Z06 clutch w/ Pro 5.0 shifter (25k miles)
Hurst line lock
Cross drilled and slotted rotors
Hawk HPS pads
4:10 gears (35k miles)
!EGR & AIR
TSP ported oil pump
rollmaster double chain
walbro 255lph pump w/new fuel filter (15k miles)
Tuned spot on by Jeremy Formato

Drivetrain
Built tranny (20k miles)
Built rear-end with eaton posi and alum. cover (30k miles)
Poly motor mounts and trans mount.

Exhaust
Hooker LT's ceramic coated
TSP x-crossover
18" Sweet Thunder's stainless
turndowns at the rear end

Suspension
Eibach ProKit lowering springs
BMR adj. torque arm
Spohn adj. panhard rod
BMR lca's w/relocation brackets
BMR weld-in subframe connectors
Also just installed new tie rods and had it aligned

Wheels/Tires
AFS chrome ZR-1 replicas
17x9.5 +38mm offset
17x11 +36.5mm offset
Sumitumo HTRZ's 275/40ZR-17 70% tread
Sumitumo HTRZ's 315/35ZR-17 70% tread

Random
Pioneer CD deck
Infiniti Kappa component speakers
5% tint on side and rear windows
SLP leather shift ****
polished taillight centerpiece (no firebird logo, just shiny black)
Suncoast Creations hood

Stock stuff
graphite leather
t-tops
power windows
remote keyless entry
remote hatch opener (that actually works, lol)
door handles and side mirrors are body colored

Problems
Crack in dash
Small chip in windshield (not very noticable)
Two rock chips on hood
Does not have an antenna, however the cd player works just fine and local radio stations.
The clear started to peel some on the front clip. As you can see from the pics it's not very noticable from a few feet away.

I have reciepts for a decent amount of the parts including the transmission rebuild if you would like them as well as a couple old dyno graphs with previous cams I tried out.

Has 125,000 miles on it with a fresh oil change (done every 3000)

Car has excellent oil pressure and runs very well. It was dyno'd with a 224/224 .565/.565 cam and made 390rwhp 385rwtq. With the new much larger cam it has to be over 400rwhp. I had the car tuned but off the dyno. It is spot on and took a few hours to get it there from one of the best tuners in Florida. I took the car to the track one time and ran a 12.3 @ 119 (really soft launch and soft shift into second to be gentle on the rear, hint the high mph for the et)

Most of the mods are within the 25k mile range. I've changed all the fluids 25k miles ago and oil every 3k miles or less. Changed oil at every cam swap (3). All mods are in great shape as far as I know. I put new valve seals and cleaned the heads and new lifters when I put the last cam in. So really the only thing that has the full 125k miles on it are the bearings and rings, unless they were replaced by previous owner. I know the cam bearings looked great when I swapped cams. I also know that there was still a good cross hatch in the cylinders when I replaced lifters. The car does not smoke so the engine is in good shape.

$9,850

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Old Jul 23, 2007 | 06:10 PM
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im sorry that i couldnt buy it from you, things just didnt work out.
Thank You for giving me the time to try.
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Wow thats great. Any chance you'd dyno it w/ the new cam to get actual numbers, I'd like to see what she's putting out, my car has similar mods and I am not impressed with the numbers I put down.
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It will put down around 400rwhp with the new cam.
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who'd you sell it to?
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