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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 04:44 PM
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Well guess its finally time to make my own thread car is a 1998 Trans Am few of you from up north may remember it its marco's old car had a ARE 346 and few other things and i played around with the nitrous for a while well finally decided to take the plunge and do a FI setup well heres what im planning and pics to follow

HPE Built 346 with custom ground turbo cam,stock crank,forged internals
Stage 2 TEA 5.3 Heads for now
GT-42-76 T6 flange
Truck manifolds if i can ever find a set without egr and with heat shields
BS3 Staged Injection
A2W Intercooler with large heat exchanger
Edelbrock Carb Intake with Rails
Griffin Radiator
Turbosmart BOV
Turbosmart Wastegate
Nasty N8 Valve Covers
10 pt wolfe CM cage
Wolfe SFC's
QA1R's
Pa Racing Tubular K member
4l80E Tranny with Chryoed Internals thinking about adding transbrake
3400 Vig Converter
and lots more car should be done March/April at latest stay tuned for pics not much now but check back for updates
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 04:51 PM
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what kind of RWHP/RWTQ are you expecting?
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 04:59 PM
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somewhere in the 900 range not too worried about power planning on low 9s if everything goes according and if it doesnt well bigger motor and turbo
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 05:11 PM
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Here ya go....













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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 05:12 PM
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sorry forgot one....
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 05:14 PM
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thanks kyle
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 05:15 PM
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4l80E Tranny with Chryoed Internals thinking about adding transbrake
3400 Vig Converter
Are you going to buy or build the trans?

I'm probably going to work over my own 4L80E

4L80E input shaft left.. TH400 right....
Alot bigger....

There is a VASCO billet shaft available.. I'd just like to have power capacity of the stock one in my head to compare to the upgrade..




You DO want to swap in a TH400 direct drum and sprag into the 4L80E...

Use nothing but Kolene steels...

Also get the torrington kit..

I might get straight cut low gear planetaries... I'm still mulling alot over..

As I get things figured out I might do my own 4l80E build up write up.. I'll also be doing a DANA 300 gear drive case build up.. Chev adapter, upgraded shafts and 4-1 low range but probably just put that on 4x4 forums..
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 05:18 PM
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well supposedly the tranny is already built so im jsut going to put it in and find out or if i decide to get the trans brake and billet shaft from rossler im sure he will tell me
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 05:53 PM
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That car is still alive

I remember putting that ARE motor in there.Thank god you got rid of that
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 05:56 PM
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actually the ARE motor was in excellent shape when i took it out looked brand new and had everything it was supposed to just i didnt like nitrous so haha i told marco it would eventually happen and now it is few spots of rust underneath it but nothing bad the car is going to be a terror when done and yeah the car has been through alot i got it had it for a while blew up the 6 spd and sold it and i bought it back a year and a half ago then i blew up the rear so i put damians 8.8 in and a bunch of susp stuff then the tranyn nuked again so i said screw it turbo time
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 06:00 PM
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oh yeah if anyone has a set of 4.8/5.3/or 6.0 manifolds with heat shields and no egr or air hit me up i cant find them around here to save my life
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well supposedly the tranny is already built so im jsut going to put it in and find out or if i decide to get the trans brake and billet shaft from rossler im sure he will tell me
Thats cool.. I did'nt know what your starting point was for sure on the drivetrain...

Get a good transcooler... A Setrab or a long mfg'd one.. Look like a Nascar oil cooler... BTW I run that type of oil cooler too...

Stay tuned as I also try to figure out how to add oil squirters to a LSX to cool the back side of the pistons..
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 06:19 PM
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i got a big B&M cooler right now might look into the setrab if this one doesnt work out and ill be keeping an eye on tranny temp once i find a guage i like
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 06:22 PM
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i got a big B&M cooler right now might look into the setrab if this one doesnt work out and ill be keeping an eye on tranny temp once i find a guage i like
What does it look like...

It might have actually been made by Long or setrab..




Basically a two end tank bar and plate system instead of the copper tube style...
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 06:23 PM
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Did you try the truck forum here on tech? PM a few truck owners that have headers listed in their sigs....gotta be a few that still have em...or ebay?

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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 06:24 PM
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i searched ebay the other day with no luck ill find a set sooner or later
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Old Dec 13, 2005 | 06:28 PM
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heres a pic of the cooler

letes see if i figured this out haha

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? You could try some of the LS1 engine swap headers...

My rig is different but I'm starting with a set of mids and changing angles on them as needed... Faster than starting from scratch...

I'm pretty sure that cooler was made by long....

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Old Jan 6, 2006 | 07:01 PM
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TTT picked up alot of the parts from 69firebird down in hurst now im in TN visiting some friends will be back home to VA sunday should have rest of needed parts coming in mail following week so i can get the motor in and start fabbing
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