Done with the blower for a while..
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Done with the blower for a while.. Well it was fun, considering I bought the blower in January '04 and the car was a bone stock M6 car at that point i guess I did OK but I'm getting kind of bored. Picked up a set of PP LS6 'style' heads pretty cheap and have a TSP 231/237 cam and a XER 224 112 here. I'll probably try the 224 for now and for underhood bling I'll try to blow it up with a NOSzle kit 
Main reason for taking off the blower is I do bracket race the car a lot and even though the blower is fairly consistant weather changes make it a little unpredictable sometimes.
Just for reference I pulled the blower off last week, stuck a whisper lid on the car and ran it. Stock tune, LS6 intake, FLP headers/hooker cat back being the only mods. Car ran 8.10 @ 88 with a pretty bad 1.800 60' The 28" tall tire, 3.70 and fairly tight converter wasnt making for really great 60's
In this weather at the same track the car ran 7.20 @ 98 or so with the blower, so the blower was good for almost a full second and 10mph in the 1/8 mile + it added 70 lbs to the car, Hard to beat that kind of increase on a stock motor even with a pretty decent shot of N2O. Leaked the motor down last night and its the same 15-18% that it has been since I got it with 9000 miles on it. Car has 18,000 miles on it now and has been through a lot - at least 500 passes over the last 2 years and hundreds of autotap blasts, cant say enough how surprised I am how well these things hold up stock. Since I really dont drive the car much anymore I find it will be a little easier to go the nitrous route for a while.
I decided to keep the ATI around, I'll probably pick up another M6 f-body for a cruiser and you can beat the ATI for that
Main reason for taking off the blower is I do bracket race the car a lot and even though the blower is fairly consistant weather changes make it a little unpredictable sometimes.
Just for reference I pulled the blower off last week, stuck a whisper lid on the car and ran it. Stock tune, LS6 intake, FLP headers/hooker cat back being the only mods. Car ran 8.10 @ 88 with a pretty bad 1.800 60' The 28" tall tire, 3.70 and fairly tight converter wasnt making for really great 60's
In this weather at the same track the car ran 7.20 @ 98 or so with the blower, so the blower was good for almost a full second and 10mph in the 1/8 mile + it added 70 lbs to the car, Hard to beat that kind of increase on a stock motor even with a pretty decent shot of N2O. Leaked the motor down last night and its the same 15-18% that it has been since I got it with 9000 miles on it. Car has 18,000 miles on it now and has been through a lot - at least 500 passes over the last 2 years and hundreds of autotap blasts, cant say enough how surprised I am how well these things hold up stock. Since I really dont drive the car much anymore I find it will be a little easier to go the nitrous route for a while.
I decided to keep the ATI around, I'll probably pick up another M6 f-body for a cruiser and you can beat the ATI for that
kp, it was a very impressive setup. Congrats.
It's amazing that your leakdown #s stayed identical across the board. It just goes to show how well these motors can perform with proper setups and proper tunes.
It's amazing that your leakdown #s stayed identical across the board. It just goes to show how well these motors can perform with proper setups and proper tunes.
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Tuning is the key, always had a wideband in the car and never let the a/f get over 11.5:1 with pump gas and 12.5 with 100 unleaded - thats running 25 degrees of timing 5000rpm and up.
Kyle, I MAY be selling my complete TH350 setup and going back to a 6 speed. PM me and maybe we can work something out if I decide to switch.
Kyle, I MAY be selling my complete TH350 setup and going back to a 6 speed. PM me and maybe we can work something out if I decide to switch.
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Tuning is the key, always had a wideband in the car and never let the a/f get over 11.5:1 with pump gas and 12.5 with 100 unleaded - thats running 25 degrees of timing 5000rpm and up.
Kyle, I MAY be selling my complete TH350 setup and going back to a 6 speed. PM me and maybe we can work something out if I decide to switch.
Kyle, I MAY be selling my complete TH350 setup and going back to a 6 speed. PM me and maybe we can work something out if I decide to switch.
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If I sell it it will be complete, driveshaft, r/t torque arm, shifter, everything to put it in the car including the speedo sensor stuff. I'm not sure what I am going to do yet trans-wise.
