ive been in deep hiding so to say. after several misbuilt motors and such took a toll on my mentally and financially also I had not been in the mood to even talk about my car much. but after a nice long vacation in myrtle beach and hearing all those mustangs kinda lit a small fire under my ass so to say.
anyways so good highlights this year for me.
1. finally paid the cobra off. its all mine debt free went a full 5 years!
2. went to mustang week again (missed last year)
3. the Monday after mustang week I picked up my freshly built motor (and I don't have that bad gut feeling like I did with the others)
4. making some small but important changes to the car
5. signed up for 2 mustang mags after letting them all expire 3 years ago.
6. won a really nice trip for work because I was #45 in the nation out of 2500+ people
I know some of you are saying this guy is just blabbering on. but for me its a kinda coming out of my shell. I have truly been depressed for about 4 years and ive dumped more $$$ in this car than planned. im over the $40k mark currently. I should mention that about $20k of that was from 3 previous engine failures!
I just wanted to say IM BACK!
also for those asking what the hell is my build the recap here:
283 ci teksid block
ARP everything
pro-gram billet main caps
heavily ported heads
bullet custom cams
4340 eagle crank
diamond custom pistons
manley billet I-beam rods
coated king bearings
t56 with McLeod rxt twin disc (upgraded input shaft)
sra with 3.73 gears
full road race suspension from MM
torque arm
pan hard bar
converted from 4 link to 3 link system
tube k-member, a-arms, coil overs
koni yellow struts
76mm precision turbo with dual ball bearing and billet wheel
borla stinger mufflers
id1000 injectors
fore fuel rails
magna fuel 750 pump
TSS billet oil pump gears in melling HV oil pump housing
powder coated everything!
ect...
push button start
motor is not back in the car yet...
last time it made 988 rwhp and 891 rwtq on 25psi with a slipping clutch (spec stage 3+ just could not hold that much power)
im hoping for the same or a little more
went from 329 ci to 283
went from 9.8 to 1 compression to now 10.4 to 1 compression
the rest is pretty much the same...
old dyno sheet for reference SAE and STD #'s
pics below
warning I sound very redneck in this video... I swear im not!
anyways so good highlights this year for me.
1. finally paid the cobra off. its all mine debt free went a full 5 years!
2. went to mustang week again (missed last year)
3. the Monday after mustang week I picked up my freshly built motor (and I don't have that bad gut feeling like I did with the others)
4. making some small but important changes to the car
5. signed up for 2 mustang mags after letting them all expire 3 years ago.
6. won a really nice trip for work because I was #45 in the nation out of 2500+ people
I know some of you are saying this guy is just blabbering on. but for me its a kinda coming out of my shell. I have truly been depressed for about 4 years and ive dumped more $$$ in this car than planned. im over the $40k mark currently. I should mention that about $20k of that was from 3 previous engine failures!
I just wanted to say IM BACK!
also for those asking what the hell is my build the recap here:
283 ci teksid block
ARP everything
pro-gram billet main caps
heavily ported heads
bullet custom cams
4340 eagle crank
diamond custom pistons
manley billet I-beam rods
coated king bearings
t56 with McLeod rxt twin disc (upgraded input shaft)
sra with 3.73 gears
full road race suspension from MM
torque arm
pan hard bar
converted from 4 link to 3 link system
tube k-member, a-arms, coil overs
koni yellow struts
76mm precision turbo with dual ball bearing and billet wheel
borla stinger mufflers
id1000 injectors
fore fuel rails
magna fuel 750 pump
TSS billet oil pump gears in melling HV oil pump housing
powder coated everything!
ect...
push button start
motor is not back in the car yet...
last time it made 988 rwhp and 891 rwtq on 25psi with a slipping clutch (spec stage 3+ just could not hold that much power)
im hoping for the same or a little more
went from 329 ci to 283
went from 9.8 to 1 compression to now 10.4 to 1 compression
the rest is pretty much the same...
old dyno sheet for reference SAE and STD #'s
pics below
warning I sound very redneck in this video... I swear im not!
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