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wow. good stuff man. the car looks pretty badass with those slicks on the front. Looks like that's some good traction with the hoosiers

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I live off Hadley and 39th st. The road I did this on is 40th after the bridge that goes over 694. It's a little hilly but straight with corn feilds on both sides.

Thanks! Yeah they hooked pretty decent on the street. The track will be a different story obviously. There isn't much left on the slicks though, I'm thinking they will probably last me one trip to the track maybe 2.

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Took the turbo back off and sealed up the compressor housing. While taking it off I noticed something..

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...0531002011.jpg

Can you say boost leak? Even with a bunch of exhaust wrap the exhaust still melted a hole in my coupler. The weird part is my car never acted that wierd. Only a little studder here and there but I thought it was cause of my injectors. Anyway, I brought my LICP into primo and had them weld it up so I wont have a coupler there anymore.

I also installed my 20psi wastegate spring.

(10psi on the left, 20psi on the right)
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...0531002049.jpg

The most boost I could get before was about 26psi dropping to 24psi with the 10psi wastegate spring and the knob on the boost controller all the way in. Now I can boost 30psi and hold it great. That's still with the boost controller all the way in. I'm gonna try out a hallman boost controller and that should do the trick. My plan is to run around 32-35psi. That should get me to my 500whp goal. :)

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Hallman MBC ftw!!

Thats awesome, I can't wait, but thats a lot of power from 350.

Either way I can't wait to see this car again

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Well the Hallman MBC would only hold 25psi. I took the spring out of my boost controller and added to this one and now she holds 35! All I gotta say is this is the first time I've actually been scared driving my car. 3rd gear is back to useless even with meaty tires and 4th just torque steers and goes absolutely crazy. After the 2nd pull the vac line popped off the back of the boost gauge so I'll have to secure it. It definately feels like a 500whp car now, but only the dyno will tell. I'm gonna try and make it to the dyno day at MAP saturday but we'll see.

Re: 4g63tcrazy's new setup for 2010
 

Nice, can;t wait to see it

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Very nice, grats man.

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LOL, best mods ever, some tighter springs and a little welding. Go baby go!

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Little update: Car has been running really strong so far. I drove way down south yesterday to go look at a AWD shell and on the way home hit up the back roads. I beat the living hell out of my car. I was taking corners at about 80-100 and on the straight aways just went balls to the wall. It was one hell of a time. Filled the tank up full and by the time I got home I was on E and had to fill it up again. Thinking about heading down there again just to hit the backroads again. I don't think I've ever had so much fun with the car before. Sure is fun doing long 5th gear pulls! :drive1:

Oh and I just bought an old school JMF intake mani. I'm hoping it will wake up the top end alot more. Right now I feel like it's pretty weak.. Should be here hopefully by the middle of the week.

Also some bad news.. 3rd gear grinds if I dont take it easy now. Just started doing it this year, never had an issue before. I'll re-adjust the cables and put some new redline in and see what happens.

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Did you get that beast on the dyno?

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Not yet. Eventually once I get this SMIM on I will.

Re: 4g63tcrazy's new setup for 2010
 

what kind of tires you running and and where you work ?

Re: 4g63tcrazy's new setup for 2010
 

245/50r16 Falcon 912's on FD rx7 rims. I work at tires plus in Oakdale.

Re: 4g63tcrazy's new setup for 2010
 

Nice, we need to meet again before i sell my car. I should be a good ruler for you

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Yeah we def should. The car pulls pretty damn hard now at 32psi. I got it tuned pretty good too. MUCH faster then when we did a couple pulls before. I really wanna throw it on the dyno to see where I'm at but MAP and DB are pretty backed up right now.

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Got my SMIM manifold thursday.

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...0/P1030874.jpg

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...0/P1030876.jpg


I got the stock one off and started modifying things to make this fit. It's a lot more of a project then I thought it would be. The first big issue I ran into was the bottom of the throttle body hit the battery, even with it lowered down on the subframe. So I had to make yet another battery trey and tie down and this is the best I could come up with.

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...0/P1030863.jpg

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...0/P1030870.jpg

Not as clean as how I used to have it but it works and the battery doesn't move one bit.

Then I went to bolt the throttle body on and found this..

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...0/P1030871.jpg

The hole is a little too big so the throttle body cant seal. I'm thinking of just have primo fill it in a little with some welding. We'll see..

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Is that thing flanged for a stock TB?


What brand/who made that thing?

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time for a mustang throttle body, or a q45

Re: 4g63tcrazy's new setup for 2010
 

What brand is that thing?

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The guy told me it was an old school jmf. It is flanged for a 1g tb. He said he had it all rewelded by his friend to add strength blah blah blah. Pretty sure it's just a copy of a jmf, but for the price I got it I can't complain. All the welds look great and visable cracks. Maybe I'll have to get the flange cut off and have a new one welded on.

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Well I suppose I could update this thread finally and catch up.

I had Jesse fill in the TB flange by welding it.
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...0622001742.jpg

Here is a pic of everything installed. Eventually I'll redue the UICP since it's really janky right now.
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...er2010/bay.jpg

After driving the car around it developed a studdering issue and kept blowing the MPI fuse. So I got really frustrated and decided to beat on the car. I went to NLTS into 3rd and byebye went 3rd gear. Then a block from my house it got locked into 1st gear. I had to sit and crank the car to limp it home. I thought it was kinda funny.

I let the car sit for about a month since I was so sick of it until one day it hit me that the cookout was coming up and I didnt want to miss it. So I picked up a '90 tranny from Cudvig. A new ClutchNet solid 4-puck disk, resurfaced the flywheel and freshened up the ACT2600 PP surface.
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...0/P1040099.jpg

Got the car running and tranny shifts decent except for 2nd gear. I have to really granny shift it so it doesn't grind. But the tranny was cheap so I couldn't complain. I drove the car to work and back a couple days and everything was fine. I detailed the car and the colt wednesday before the cookout and the car was looking better then ever. On the way to the cookout the car decided to hate me and I blew 4 fuses on the way.. Thank god a fuse didn't blow once we hit traffic. That would have been a nightmare. But I made it there and back and that's all I wanted out of the car this summer.

So now the car sits yet again. Maybe I'll decide to pull the harness out of the car and fix the issue. I'll need a car to drive while I turbo the colt so maybe that will inspire me to get it running. Otherwise the car will sit and it will be getting a new turbo with a built tranny over the winter and obviously a new wiring harness.

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Oh and I did a little photoshoot. Here are a couple pics.

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...0/P1030947.jpg

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...1030973HDR.jpg

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...0/P1030959.jpg

Re: 4g63tcrazy's new setup for 2010
 

Looks REALLY good man!

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Looks great! And shots showing the new hood?

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Thanks! I forgot to mention I picked up Brandon's hood! I'll have to get a couple pics of that.

Edit: ^^ Beat me to it! Like I said I'll have to snap a few pics of it soon.

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That's hilarious. I sold that tranny to Cudvig, and he must have sold it to you. Haha, more of my parts on your car!

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Car looks amazing, question though.
Can you get a shorter tires for the 16s?
They look a little on teh fat side.

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He had 2 tranny's and I bought the one he got from Carltalon.

That would defeat the purpose of me buying 16's in the first place. I wanted the tallest/widest tire I could possibly fit on the car. Traction greatly improved do too more sidewall and having a wider tire. And not to mention the ride is soo much smoother. These tires measure out the same as my 26x9 Hoosiers.

Re: 4g63tcrazy's new setup for 2010
 

nice.

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Makes me wish I would've put sticky tires on my FWD to see how it behaves....



Car looks really clean as usual Andy. Get these wiring bugs sorted out and you'll be a happy man.

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Well tracton still sucks, but it was a pretty noticable difference. Here are a few pics of the hood.

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...a/P1040151.jpg

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...a/P1040154.jpg

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...a/P1040157.jpg

Re: 4g63tcrazy's new setup for 2010
 

yeah, i really liked how your car looked man. the engine bay looked amazing. good thing you made it home safely. cf hood on a 1ga is hawt!

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This picture pleases me.

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Thanks for the compliments!

I got bored today and decided to start pulling my wiring harness. I got it about half way out and then I noticed this..
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...0/CIMG0029.jpg

2 wires had been rubbing on the subframe and grounding out. So I fixed them and taped it all back up and bought some plastic wire loom and wrapped it around the harness and so far so good. I only drove it for 30mins but I'm pretty confident that was the issue. Only time will tell.

Re: 4g63tcrazy's new setup for 2010
 

I bet that was your issue. I can see bare wire in there.

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Yeah a red wire with a black stripe wore through down to bare wire. Pretty sure it's good to go now since I haven't had any issues in the last couple days.

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wow andy its nice to see your car come together so well. i remember seeing it a few years ago and it blew me away at how clean it was then and it just keeps getting better!

you still under 100k?

Re: 4g63tcrazy's new setup for 2010
 

Thanks! I try and improve it as much as possible when I can.

100k miles? If so, then yes. I have 74,910 on it right now actually. :)

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That hood is sexy :)

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I just read this entire thread and all i can say is holy shit! All that hard work paid off! That car is super clean and I hope my 1g will end up being even half as clean as yours. Keep up the good work man.


James