Still waiting on the car to get on the dyno.
Big power build. Guess what it will make.
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Well not happening today. Problem with it hitting limp mode because of throttle body so hopefully we will be back at it Monday.
update?
JPC is at Bradenton, they probably haven't made much progress
Supposed to be tuned this Wednesday now. Problem is Lund is remote tuning it so I've had to deal with Lunds schedule plus JPC's schedule. Hasn't been an easy process. Hopefully Wednesday works out well.
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Ike built my 5.4 with a 4.0L whipple and made 1,023 whp on 23lbs boost and e85. Broke my billet oil pump gears like stale crackers. Hopefully your doing more for oil system than the stock housing and billet gears 
Also, that blower makes great power but is this a drag car or street car?
That blower is absolutely violent and extremely hard on the motor through vibration- bent my crank shaft snout and my Innovators west Pulley.
Sold that blower faster than I could box it up and turbo ftw!
That's what happened with less than 2k street miles- not to scare you but its reality with that blower. I will however say that the input shaft in my snout was cracked as well. Whipple sent me a new one because they were having a issue with them and had that replaced as well.
Also, that blower makes great power but is this a drag car or street car?
That blower is absolutely violent and extremely hard on the motor through vibration- bent my crank shaft snout and my Innovators west Pulley.
Sold that blower faster than I could box it up and turbo ftw!
That's what happened with less than 2k street miles- not to scare you but its reality with that blower. I will however say that the input shaft in my snout was cracked as well. Whipple sent me a new one because they were having a issue with them and had that replaced as well.
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The engine has a billet crank in it for that reason so I shouldn't have any problems like that. I'll probably ending going turbo more than likely but I wanted to see what a 4.5 could do on an engine built to take it first.Ike built my 5.4 with a 4.0L whipple and made 1,023 whp on 23lbs boost and e85. Broke my billet oil pump gears like stale crackers. Hopefully your doing more for oil system than the stock housing and billet gears
Also, that blower makes great power but is this a drag car or street car?
That blower is absolutely violent and extremely hard on the motor through vibration- bent my crank shaft snout and my Innovators west Pulley.
Sold that blower faster than I could box it up and turbo ftw!
That's what happened with less than 2k street miles- not to scare you but its reality with that blower. I will however say that the input shaft in my snout was cracked as well. Whipple sent me a new one because they were having a issue with them and had that replaced as well.
Yes! My bad I didn't see you had a billet crank in there. That was my Achilles heal I believe but was secondary to the oil pump going on the dyno after turning up the boost with smaller pulley after I made 1,023 whp. I got greedy lol. I've never seen billet gears in pieces like that before..crazy. I'm going to a mechanical oil pump.
I'm also using the same billet crank with new build as you. I think your build will take the abuse as you are building it right but, longevity wise, turbo will maximize your build and less abuse than that motor banger! ike is the man and your in the best hands.
1310whp
Ike built my 5.4 with a 4.0L whipple and made 1,023 whp on 23lbs boost and e85. Broke my billet oil pump gears like stale crackers. Hopefully your doing more for oil system than the stock housing and billet gears
Also, that blower makes great power but is this a drag car or street car?
That blower is absolutely violent and extremely hard on the motor through vibration- bent my crank shaft snout and my Innovators west Pulley.
Sold that blower faster than I could box it up and turbo ftw!
That's what happened with less than 2k street miles- not to scare you but its reality with that blower. I will however say that the input shaft in my snout was cracked as well. Whipple sent me a new one because they were having a issue with them and had that replaced as well.
Who made the oil pump gears?
TSS. They gears were literally in pieces. I'll try to find a pic but that was 3 years ago. MPR pulled it apart and said he hadn't seen anything like that before with billet gears.
That sucks. External pump is really the way to go if you're going to be turning a blower that big though. Not sure how worthwhile MMR's thrust bearing replacement system is but it looks pretty slick and you could run that too.
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I'm in the process of doing a built motor I will be watching this closely I'm leaning toward a turbo for 2018.
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