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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 10:08 PM
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Like the title says. Quick little video of us testing out the transbrake, and new converter on some jackstands.

First rev is about 6 psi, and 2nd rev is 9-10 psi, at about 3600 rpms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8xOQpEMzWQ


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Old Mar 18, 2011 | 10:45 PM
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cant wait till my build is done. f/i cars sound soo cool. i used to play with the 2 step on my lt1/d1sc 6 spd car all the time, popopopopPOW pow POOOOOW (2 foot flames).
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right on
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Very nice!
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what made you use the pro-flow xt over standard victor jr/sr intake?
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Old Mar 19, 2011 | 07:13 PM
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Turbo cars generally do better with large plenum intakes, which is why all the fastest cars are all sheet metal intakes. This is a sheet metal intake on a budget. Plus it looks pretty bad ***!

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Old Mar 20, 2011 | 01:03 AM
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well ive been thinking about changing myself to a short runner design sheetmetal, due to i think it would be best.. these runners seem to be longer than most sheet metal i guess to accommodate n/a and nos style cars as well.. what style head are you running?

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Patriot 317's. I will be re dynoing the car soon, but i also changed to a new converter, in guessing that will affect the numbers as well. Do you run a pro flo now? Are you not happy with the results?
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your trans and converter love you after that stupidity
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Wow, 10 psi w/o a 2step. I'm lucky to see 2 psi.

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well ive been thinking about changing myself to a short runner design sheetmetal, due to i think it would be best.. these runners seem to be longer than most sheet metal i guess to accommodate n/a and nos style cars as well.. what style head are you running?
Large plenum and short runner are not the same thing. The Pro Flo XT has a very long runner as compared to most of the sheetmetal intakes out there. Short runner intakes move the power band up. That means less torque and more top end power.
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Originally Posted by 98Z28CobraKiller
Wow, 10 psi w/o a 2step. I'm lucky to see 2 psi.



Large plenum and short runner are not the same thing. The Pro Flo XT has a very long runner as compared to most of the sheetmetal intakes out there. Short runner intakes move the power band up. That means less torque and more top end power.
How do you think it will work compared to a vic jr, or stock ls6 style intake?


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your trans and converter love you after that stupidity
I dont really see any harm done. Trans temps never got hot, motor didn't get hot. I have a big trans cooler, with a fan on it.


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im sure that converter/trans will be JUST fine for those 10 seconds...some people i tell ya, lol
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What exactly is the harm in what we did? How is it different that getting on the brake at the track? If that damaged the built trans or the billet converter, we have bigger problems.

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What exactly is the harm in what we did? How is it different that getting on the brake at the track? If that damaged the built trans or the billet converter, we have bigger problems.

Sean
yea exactely, lol. On the other hand when do you guys think the car will be out?
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Well that depends on a few things. We are scheduled to go by Eric for a couple of things on the 2nd. Then we need to get on the dyno, but Chris has to decide weather or not we are swapping ECU's now or later before we can set that up. Then we have an appointment May 7th to get the chassis certed. If everything works out we should be making passes that same day. We are scheduled for 9:20, so we will have all day to start making shakedown runs. We both have some busy weekends coming up where we will not be able to work on the car so that is pushing it back some.

Whats the news on your car? I see you ordered up some more parts, what did you get?


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why u changing PCM's?

I just ordered the fittings for my trans case for the -6 line and 45* fittings for it, fans for the radaitor, aeromotive filter. So with that being bought my trans stuff is all done and cooling is all done, got my brake lines to finish up and thats all done. Basically just need to buy a harness now for $500 and some tubing to make my radaitor lines and it "SHOULD" fire
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We need to change to a 99 up ECU sooner or later so we can use a 3 bar MAP sensor. So that means he has to get the 3 bar MAP, and possibly upgade his HP Tuners to be able to still tune it ourselves at the track.

Well what are you waiting for?! You gonna get it on the track this summer?

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yea waiting on parts and motivation! Im doin some **** here n there. Out there now redoing it cause i added a 2" carb spacer under my elbow (supposed to help a lot with a vic jr intake). Just sucks and i get side tracked easy and start ******* with other ****, lol.
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That car looks sick. I think what that one guy meant is that it's not a good idea to get on the trans brake and then let off the gas to bring it back to idle. I'm no trans expert and wouldn't be able to tell you the harm it can cause or if it's even true or not, but it's just always been my understanding that when you engage the transbrake you need to launch it
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