Today was the day! Vengeance Racing...
The bad: woke up to the sound of pouring rain...sounds like the first lyric of an old song. Yep, it’s raining here today, and I’m OCD about cleanliness. The car is absolute show quality of course, and is/was a never-to-be-driven-in-the-rain type of deal. I’ve been trying to get a date with this tuner for quite a while now, so what do I do? He’s opening shop today (Saturday) just for me...oh well, it’s got wipers on the windshield, and it will wash. Let’s go! A 40ish minute drive in absolute pouring rain. Yay.

The good: we were able to get the majority of the work done on the dyno. I will get back over there maybe end of week, for street tuning, and tweaking. Overall I’m extremely pleased. Driveability is a lot better already, and will improve more as we street tune. Nothing broke! I had about 5 miles on the re-do, prior to leaving for the dyno this morning at 5am. Drove it just enough to seat the rings was all. Plugs look good. Oil looks good, with no fuel smell. Success!

How about some numbers...car made 616hp. This is a conversion vehicle. In a C6 chassis, that’s gonna be another 20+ easily, due to a much more refined and efficient driveline. Torque is 526.3, and a VERY flat curve. These numbers will go up a little as street tuning gets optimized. Mike was pretty amazed that I made this much with a plastic manifold. I would have been happy with 620, and it may get there still. Car is extremely strong. I’m gonna do some half mile runs, so there will be data available to compare to. Camshaft is actually pretty small (half pregnant) for a 434” build, and equates to a 246 degree hydraulic camshaft. I could go much bigger camshaft, and chase numbers, but it’s streetable and I’m happy.

I installed an improved oil cooler setup setup during the re-do. I went with their MHX-520 cooler, with -10 lines. I also installed their EGM-112 oil cooler thermostat, to ensure the oil gets up to temp (180 degrees), before the cooler sees oil circulation. It works great, and my oil temp gauge showed a tick over 180 the entire trip today.

Congrats Scott!
Excellant Results!

I can do that...

Thanks G. It’s a fun car. I couldn’t be happier.

Thanks boss! You know, if I were chasing numbers, I’d already be looking to see what and where I could spend another $5-$10k to get me there, but I’m not. Not saying I won’t upgrade stuff from time to time, but overall I’m pleased. It’s a cool old car that’s a little older than I am, and that’s what I like best about the project. I’m having a blast!

Bryan I’ve been wondering how yours was coming along this summer. Get a dyno day scheduled, and get some numbers up. How does it drive/feel overall with the setup you have? It’s got to be a screamer up top...

Here’s the final dyno pull we did...

Thanks! I’m running Borla XS Pro’s. 2” primary ARH headers into 3” with X-pipe. Exhaust is dumped in front of axle.
I'm pretty confident that I will pick up power on the street tune. My wideband sensor was acting up, so we were hesitant to push the envelope. It’s a pretty mild tune right now. I’ll keep you guys posted.

Not real sure why Mike quit when he did. It had leveled out, so I guess he figured that was it. I would have loved to have seen it go to 7, just to see when it started to fall off. The plastic manifold is a limiting factor for sure, even ported.