Check Out My New Under-Hood Bling!
07-05-2005 | 05:21 PM
#1
Check Out My New Under-Hood Bling! A HUGE thanks to Rob Barth at Strictly Performance in Van Nuys for being such a great help. Finally getting my car together has been a "bumpy ride" (to say the least.) Rob hauled his *** all the way down here to southern San Diego (a 4+hour drive each way 
) not just once, but TWICE in the past month! 
Now that is serious dedication to what he is doing. I have never been the type to "take" my car anywhere for anything... I just lack the trust. But if you are going to take your car anywhere, I highly recommend Strictly.
Now about the car:
Installed:
Force Fed High Performance LQ9 (6.0l) 72cc heads
Vortech V-9 SQ G-Trim supercharger
"Pullied down" to a 2.75" pulley to make up for the huge drop in compression with the heads.
Custom tunning required.
Results:
Right now, 517hp and 458lbs/ft torque to the wheels on Extreme's Dynapack. Even with the 2.75" pulley the motor is barely seeing 10psi of boost. These numbers are with extremely conservative tunning, through JBA's, with the stock cats. The car will have no trouble passing smog and should (hopefully) stay together for a while. Though it's not the most impressive HP number out there, it starts to spool up boost a little over 2k rpm and builds up to it's full 10lbs really quick... Makes for a fun daily driver! There is plenty of room to go down to the 2.5" pulley. That should put me somewhere between 530-550hp and still keep it fairly conservative and smog-able. I might do that at some point down the road... We'll see
. But right now I just want to enjoy driving the car a bit.
) not just once, but TWICE in the past month! Now that is serious dedication to what he is doing. I have never been the type to "take" my car anywhere for anything... I just lack the trust. But if you are going to take your car anywhere, I highly recommend Strictly.Now about the car:
Installed:
Force Fed High Performance LQ9 (6.0l) 72cc heads
Vortech V-9 SQ G-Trim supercharger
"Pullied down" to a 2.75" pulley to make up for the huge drop in compression with the heads.
Custom tunning required.
Results:
Right now, 517hp and 458lbs/ft torque to the wheels on Extreme's Dynapack. Even with the 2.75" pulley the motor is barely seeing 10psi of boost. These numbers are with extremely conservative tunning, through JBA's, with the stock cats. The car will have no trouble passing smog and should (hopefully) stay together for a while. Though it's not the most impressive HP number out there, it starts to spool up boost a little over 2k rpm and builds up to it's full 10lbs really quick... Makes for a fun daily driver! There is plenty of room to go down to the 2.5" pulley. That should put me somewhere between 530-550hp and still keep it fairly conservative and smog-able. I might do that at some point down the road... We'll see
. But right now I just want to enjoy driving the car a bit. 
enjoy it! 
****** bad *** 
07-06-2005 | 12:25 AM
#6
Staging Lane
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 59
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Originally Posted by BlackHawk
A HUGE thanks to Rob Barth at Strictly Performance in Van Nuys for being such a great help. Finally getting my car together has been a "bumpy ride" (to say the least.) Rob hauled his *** all the way down here to southern San Diego (a 4+hour drive each way ) not just once, but TWICE in the past month! Now that is serious dedication to what he is doing. I have never been the type to "take" my car anywhere for anything... I just lack the trust. But if you are going to take your car anywhere, I highly recommend Strictly.
Installed:
Force Fed High Performance LQ9 (6.0l) 72cc heads
Vortech V-9 SQ G-Trim supercharger
"Pullied down" to a 2.75" pulley to make up for the huge drop in compression with the heads.
Custom tunning required.
Results:
Right now, 517hp and 458lbs/ft torque to the wheels on Extreme's Dynapack. Even with the 2.75" pulley the motor is barely seeing 10psi of boost. These numbers are with extremely conservative tunning, through JBA's, with the stock cats. The car will have no trouble passing smog and should (hopefully) stay together for a while. Though it's not the most impressive HP number out there, it starts to spool up boost a little over 2k rpm and builds up to it's full 10lbs really quick... Makes for a fun daily driver! There is plenty of room to go down to the 2.5" pulley. That should put me somewhere between 530-550hp and still keep it fairly conservative and smog-able. I might do that at some point down the road... We'll see . But right now I just want to enjoy driving the car a bit.
) not just once, but TWICE in the past month! Now that is serious dedication to what he is doing. I have never been the type to "take" my car anywhere for anything... I just lack the trust. But if you are going to take your car anywhere, I highly recommend Strictly.Installed:
Force Fed High Performance LQ9 (6.0l) 72cc heads
Vortech V-9 SQ G-Trim supercharger
"Pullied down" to a 2.75" pulley to make up for the huge drop in compression with the heads.
Custom tunning required.
Results:
Right now, 517hp and 458lbs/ft torque to the wheels on Extreme's Dynapack. Even with the 2.75" pulley the motor is barely seeing 10psi of boost. These numbers are with extremely conservative tunning, through JBA's, with the stock cats. The car will have no trouble passing smog and should (hopefully) stay together for a while. Though it's not the most impressive HP number out there, it starts to spool up boost a little over 2k rpm and builds up to it's full 10lbs really quick... Makes for a fun daily driver! There is plenty of room to go down to the 2.5" pulley. That should put me somewhere between 530-550hp and still keep it fairly conservative and smog-able. I might do that at some point down the road... We'll see
. But right now I just want to enjoy driving the car a bit.Looks great man. I believe that I was there when you and Rob came back from the dyno with this car. I was there picking up my black '02 SS (heads/cam car). Glad to see its up and running. And yes, Rob does great work out there, he's done all the work on my car so far as well. Probably going with a supercharger this fall.
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07-06-2005 | 11:08 AM
#8
Thanks All!
Hey Vilkata,
Were you the guy with the centermount exhaust that I said you car "idled" better than mine?
That was after the first entire day at the Dyno. We had a few issues that needed to be ironed out after that day. It's running much better now.
Hey Vilkata,
Were you the guy with the centermount exhaust that I said you car "idled" better than mine?
That was after the first entire day at the Dyno. We had a few issues that needed to be ironed out after that day. It's running much better now.
Last edited by BlackHawk; 07-06-2005 at 01:55 PM.
07-06-2005 | 08:16 PM
#9
Staging Lane
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 59
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Originally Posted by BlackHawk
Thanks All!
Hey Vilkata,
Were you the guy with the centermount exhaust that I said you car "idled" better than mine?
That was after the first entire day at the Dyno. We had a few issues that needed to be ironed out after that day. It's running much better now.
Hey Vilkata,
Were you the guy with the centermount exhaust that I said you car "idled" better than mine?
That was after the first entire day at the Dyno. We had a few issues that needed to be ironed out after that day. It's running much better now.
That would be me. Glad to hear its running better. I'll probably be doing my supercharger this fall.
