Well, let the fun begin!

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 4:26 am

The car was always fun. I did a lot of suspension mods, did quite a few bolt ons to the engine, did car audio...etc. It was fun, handled awesome, sounded awesome, had decent power. But I got a little bored with the power after all these years (best time was a 14.0@98mph). Along with some losses, I figured it was time for a little rebuild.

The car as it sits now:

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:27 pm

What pistons your running in that?

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Mon Apr 20, 2009 11:48 pm

How are the rear end on those? what tires you running?

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:50 am

Easto wrote:What pistons your running in that?

Stock dish. Kind of hurts my compression with the aluminum heads. I had the heads milled down a bit, and got a thinner head gasket to keep compression up. I'm still leaving a lot on the table. You can run 11:1 compression on 93 with those heads. Stock is 9:3:1, I'll be around 9:5:1.

tHE_0ne wrote:How are the rear end on those? what tires you running?

They came with 9 bolts and 10 bolts. The 9 bolts are much stronger than the 10's. Except my 9 bolt has 2.77's and parts are rare. I'm just going to ditch the whole rear eventually. I'm running Z rated performance tires. Those will be replaced by Nitto DR's once the engine is done.

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Thu May 28, 2009 3:03 am

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Thu May 28, 2009 2:11 pm

Adding all that aluminum will reduce weight big time. Any idea of about how much horsepower you will be adding?

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Fri May 29, 2009 2:55 am

I'm shooting for around 400 at the fly wheel.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Fri May 29, 2009 12:32 pm

That’s respectable, those roller rockers will reduce internal engine friction big time. I hope that black box to the right in the picture has new push rods in it.

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Sat May 30, 2009 2:40 am

RoundEye wrote:That’s respectable, those roller rockers will reduce internal engine friction big time. I hope that black box to the right in the picture has new push rods in it.

That has the new lifters in it.

I ordered an adjustable pushrod so I can see what length will give me correct valve train geometry. Then I will order what size I need. I hope to have her running in a few weeks. I know someone who was running the same exact setup as me, but with a slightly smaller cam, and he went 11.9@114mph.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat May 30, 2009 7:58 am

Sharp.

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 2:48 am

Getting there:

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:41 am

You have taken excellent care of that car! And doing some fine upgrades! Good job!

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Thu Jul 02, 2009 2:58 am

All done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReO4ycnrrCA

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:16 pm

Nice quality video. What did you use to record?

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 10:13 pm

That’s a serious upgrade, I bet it has a nice seat of the pants feel.

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 2:33 am

I used my mothers Cannon Powershot A710 to record the video.

Roundeye, it feels great. It is running on the stock tune for now, which thinks I have 21lb injectors when there are 32lb injectors in there. So it runs very rich. I also need a much more aggressive timing curve. My custom chip is coming soon. There is a lot of room to gain more power, but on the stock tune, it ripppppppppppppps! I need to raise my shift points to 6000 rpm. It is shifting 1000 rpms to early because the tranny is still setup for the stock 5000 rpm shift.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 12:23 am

My expertise lies in motorcycles, carburetors, some ignition mapping and reading spark plugs. But I would say to watch that rev limit, you do have the chance of spinning up the crank too high and throwing a rod right out the bottom end. Keep in mind that is the weak link, its still stock.

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 5:27 am

The stock bottom end can handle 6000 rpm shifts. When you get to 6500 you're starting to push it. All my valve train is good to 6500 easily, which I would never spin it to though.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 3:14 pm

Cool

As long as you are aware of what the weakest link of the motor/drivetrain is, you can subject the motor and drivetrain to that using those parameters as a limit.

88dblifestyle · Post by **88dblifestyle** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 3:47 am

Cool car bro and the set up, it's great..

Hmm how much does it cost?

CoolJ · Post by **CoolJ** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:17 am

The whole head/cam/intake swap, along with the little things (pushrods, gaskets...etc) was about $4900. The heads alone were $1400.