Follow along as we build a MMR 5.4 1500 shortblock with a new 2011 Alloy Block

Dan Schoneck

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Hey Dan, we disagree, the Gt500 is Fords Flagship muscle car and they clearly felt they were not needed and for the most part we agree with them. In your defense the oilers can be nice for endurance applications, but even on the 2011 5.0 we have been deleting them for High HP applications - one benefit to this is improved oiling to the bearings.

Thanks for reading! :beer:

Sweet, what about machining those air holes in the mains on a GT block? Would it be benificial? I suppose with the GT belt oil pump there is more than enough volume and the reg pumps have a hard time feedn the squirters and the mains. Im going to hold my junk wide open for 20-22 seconds so I want squirters. Plus i found out ya gotta slow the GT Oil pump down so it don't suck all the oil out when you turn them over 7000rpms for extended periods as ford never designed them to go that high for long periods of time.
 

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Hey Mark, just wanted to give and the other members a heads-up about the short block that is featured in this thread. I have been pretty busy putting the car through its paces on the street and at the track. So far, it has by far exceeded my expectations of how the motor should be performing at this stage considering the set-up and tune the car has right now. I'm only spinning it to 6600 rpm right now and I am running the 4" pulley on the 3.6 LC KB and Lunati custom cams. On the dyno it made 785 HP and 700 TQ at this RPM and the curve was still going up at the same angle when we shut her down. At 16.4 lbs boost, 19* timing and my FPDC never saw 70% and the motor never sounded like it was even stressed.
I have @ 3000 miles, about 20 drag strip passes and countless street pulls on the motor and have changed the oil 3 times in this time frame with no VISIBLE contaminants in the oil or filter. I'm only running 93 octane in the car, for now, and getting these exceptional results. My best pass to date is;

1.51 60 ft
6.622 at 107.133 in the 1/8th
10.246 at 139.180 1/4

I'll post more as these results improve and the set-up changes.

Thanks for everything Mark. My experience with you and your team has been more than exceptional. :beer:

Here is an idle vid of the car.
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OboU67IrnI"]GT500 Idle vid - YouTube[/nomedia]

Here is the last dyno pull. Sorry, no numbers shown.
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e72WHyqkq4"]Quade Beastly GT500 - YouTube[/nomedia]

This is the 2 best passes to date. The first two are the same pass from different angles and the same with the second two.
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fu83jq1bY4"]Jammye 10.24 - YouTube[/nomedia]
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CyrRJeTORE"]Quade 10.24 - YouTube[/nomedia]

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO5jfplyeVQ"]Jammye 10.29 - YouTube[/nomedia]
[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lagj27J9MQw"]Quade 10 29 - YouTube[/nomedia]
 

littlejohn

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Do you have a dyno sheet you can post up, that would also show the boost log?

Very impressive #'s for fairly low boost, would def. like to see a dyno sheet.:thumbsup:
 

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Here ya go for the HP and TQ graph. I'll have my tuner get me a graph with a boost overlay. At the hit it was 21psi at 2000 RPM and it only lowered to 20.6psi at 7200 RPM.
I have anothe rgraph somewhere that show an almost identical graph but it shows 5 more FT LBs TQ and the same HP.

Dyno20Sept11002.jpg
 

Quade

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The motor is still running exceptionally well Mark. Gonna be tried out pulling a trailer all year this race season.
 

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