S480 WS6 Formula Build
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S480 WS6 Formula Build
I am part way into my boost build so I guess it's time to begin my new build thread. I started out with a 2000 WS6 Formula bolt-on car. It's been 13's, 12's, 11's and now 10's with a 6 speed. My goal was to see 9's on a 150 shot with the 6 spd but I didn't quite get there, the best time ended up 10.30@131 mph then the weather turned cold. Time for winter tear down!
My new goal is to get this car in the high 8's with boost and the forged LS1 bottom end. Here are some of my plans:
Front Mount truck manifold build
Borg Warner S480 billet
Treadstone intercooler
Forged LS1
10.5:1 compression on E85
Trick Flow 215 heads
Solid Roller cam spec'd by John Bewley and ground by Cam Motion
4L80 with a Precision Industries 3600 converter
3.55 or 3.73 gears in a Moser 12 bolt
28" tall Et Streets
Still a street car but has a little weight reduction
Plans to make a few trips to the track each year and plans to beat my son. ;-)
My new goal is to get this car in the high 8's with boost and the forged LS1 bottom end. Here are some of my plans:
Front Mount truck manifold build
Borg Warner S480 billet
Treadstone intercooler
Forged LS1
10.5:1 compression on E85
Trick Flow 215 heads
Solid Roller cam spec'd by John Bewley and ground by Cam Motion
4L80 with a Precision Industries 3600 converter
3.55 or 3.73 gears in a Moser 12 bolt
28" tall Et Streets
Still a street car but has a little weight reduction
Plans to make a few trips to the track each year and plans to beat my son. ;-)
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Considered reusing the stock radiator but quickly found out that it won't work. I cut out the top and bottom core support and I am fabricating the lower mounts. I also modified my stock fans and moved the radiator forward just far enough that I can mount the stock hood latch assembly yet. The radiator sits as far forward and as high as possible.
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My radiator fit right under my top core suport flush mounted... I switched to pushers recently which also freed up room, now I got about 3" between radiator and turbo, (even with pusher you shouldn't have had to cut the support,I didnt)I also relocated my alt.(made my own kit for around 100 including belt
My radiator fit right under my top core suport flush mounted... I switched to pushers recently which also freed up room, now I got about 3" between radiator and turbo, (even with pusher you shouldn't have had to cut the support,I didnt)I also relocated my alt.(made my own kit for around 100 including belt
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I originally set out to install the radiator inside the core support but I decided to remove the entire core support for a few reasons. Yes, I could have just bought aftermarket pushers but I don't care for pushers in a street car. After a ton of research I decided to reuse the stock fans if I could get them to fit. I think I was successful at modifying the stock fans which required moving the radiator further forward. The more I looked at the front of the car the more I figured a little bit of fabrication could produce weight reduction as well as plenty of clearance I would ever need for any further modification down the road...such as big cubes with a S500 series T6. ;-) and included the benefit of easier to work on. Someday I plan to remove the entire cowl but not until I am finished street driving the car.
I did not fabricate the hot side. It is a custom built hotside that I purchased used. I will fabricate the T6 hotside I build in a few years. I will be running a 5inch fender exit
I did not fabricate the hot side. It is a custom built hotside that I purchased used. I will fabricate the T6 hotside I build in a few years. I will be running a 5inch fender exit
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I will get more pics of the hot side soon. I am preparing to assemble the top end of the engine any day now. Trick Flow 215 CNC heads and the custom cam. The cam was spec'd by John Bewley of Lil John Motorsport Solutions and was supplied and produced by Kip from Cam Motion. It's a low lash solid roller, a fairly new concept created by Cam Motion. I was running a low lash solid roller in my N/A/nitrous build and was very satisfied so we are going to try it with the turbo. I am excited to see how it does.
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Trick Flow heads, I bought these off an out of state friend who put very few miles on them but they were run for a few minutes with no coolant. I brought then straight to my machine shop and he performed a three angle valve job plus milled .005 off them to make them perfectly straight. This pic is before I dropped them, they look like new now.
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Trick Flow heads, I bought these off an out of state friend who put very few miles on them but they were run for a few minutes with no coolant. I brought then straight to my machine shop and he performed a three angle valve job plus milled .005 off them to make them perfectly straight. This pic is before I dropped them, they look like new now.
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I found a couple small round aluminum bungs laying around from another old project, drilled them out and tapped them. Welded them into the radiator and used them as mounts. Welded small round tuning into the plates I had installed on the core support as end caps. Cut down a couple 8mm bolts and radiator mounts done. Routed the cold side and bolted everything up. Fabricated fuel rail mounts for the short injectors so that I don't need to run spacers. Just need to figure a couple more things out, install pushrods, find a lower radiator hose that will work, oil drain/feed lines and mount regulator and finish running fuel lines. Getting closer to firing it up.