My Gradual Build (Quest for a Powerful Street GT500, always hungry for more)

[FordTT500]

*****************UPDATES**************************
I will use this section of the thread to update each post so that everyone doesn't have to read each page of the thread.
In the order of most recent to the earliest part of the build.

Click on each Link to see the updated post with pictures.

1-27-2014

Motor Sent to L&M Engines to get new parts for more power. Includes New CNC Ported Heads and custom L&M Race turbo cams.


10-4-2013

Mostly complete with the engine bay area. Coolant Reservoir attached to the radiator.

10-4-2013

ProEFI sensors in, custom D3PE radiator, coolant reservoir and vacuum manifold

09-30-2013

Trunk Coolant tank, Close up of catch can, and Relocation of stock ECM and ProEFI.

09-28-2013

3 inch exhaust from turbos back. Custom X-pipe leading to magnaflow 3 inch exhaust with magnapack mufflers.

09-25-2013

Charge Pipes and Catch Can done. Majority of the turbo kit done.

09-20-2013

Hotsides completely done with wastegates and dumptubes attached and rerouted to exhaust. Intake with throttle body attached awaiting chargepipes.


09-19-2013

New aluminum forward facing SC eliminator top at with circle throttle body flange.


09-13-2013

80% of the hotside done, downpipes made with transitions, and v-bands put on.


09-11-2013

More pictures of the manifold all welded up with slip fit connector brackets welded on with retaining springs.


09-06-2013

New street duty wheels are made. CCW SP16a Hybrids.


09-05-2013

Formation and final stages of fabricating the turbo headers together.


08-29-2013

Nitrogen Assisted Nitrous Oxide Piggyback onto Nitrous Express dry kit and JPC Billet motor mounts for BMR K-Member.


08-28-2013

New CNC Flange for the custom intake and steel braided teflon -AN lines for vacuum lines.


08-26-2013

Beginning fabrication of the turbo headers.


08-25-2013

Burns 4-1 merge collector received. Made of 321 Stainless.


08-25-2013

Initial car build with Hellion turbo kit and built motor. Then came the first purchase of the recent build, ProEFI Standalone ECU Arrives with all the goodies.

 

[FordTT500]

Initial Build.
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I figured that I should start chronicling my 2010 GT500 build. My intentions for this car is to compete in mild drag racing events and roll racing events and be able to drive to and from those events with AC and all amenities in tact. I purchased the car in the beginning of 2011 from an older gentlemen who blew the motor over-reving it. The original block was replaced with a MMR1000 block and the original blower was ditched for a Kenne Bell 2.8H from the original owner.

When I got the car it had dynoed around 700hp. I enjoyed the car for about 6 months and then I got use to the power and wanted something more and something different. I've always owned turbo cars in the past and I loved that you can control boost through a controller. So my build (for the way I wanted the car) went underway. I chose the Hellion kit because of the less modifications needed to be done to the car and I felt it was truly a bolt-on kit. I upgraded and got the precision 6466 ball bearing turbos.

I also chose to upgrade the rotating assembly to something more stout so I bought Manley billet rods, MMR2500 Pistons, and a cryo-treated cobra jet crank.

In my heads I upgraded to MMR springs, Ferrea Valves, and Ford GT Supercar cams.

I then upgraded my fuel system because I knew the Kenne Bell Boost a pump wasn't going to cut it so I purchased a whole JPC fuel system with Triple walbro 400lph pumps and -8 fuel lines feeding Injector Dynamics ID2000s.

I had everything assembled and put together with a new BMR K-member hoping to eventually go automatic so I knew I needed more room to relocate the wastegates to fit the auto under the car.

We had the supercharger off and put a top hat on to see what it would do non compounded.
We had manual boost controller issues and we didn't want to tackle the AMS1000 yet. The car dynoed 957hp @ 16 lbs of boost with out the supercharger. We could not get the manual boost controller to go past 16 psi (it was probably faulty). The boost came on a little lazy with out the compound setup.
We then put on the compound setup with out changing the boost controller setting at all it felt like the car made a lot more power but at 35 lbs of boost and the boost kicked on a much sooner. We couldn't get the horsepower reading because the car became really violent on the dyno and we saw wheel spin on the rollers. We needed to dyno the car with bigger tires because we had on street tires. The car gained almost 300 lbs of torque at 4000 rpm with the compound setup.
The Green was without supercharger the red was compounded. See the difference in midrange torque

The car was done right at TX2k event and I took the car out and played with a couple of other high horsepower cars. I enjoyed the car for a little more than 3 months and then I decided that I wanted a little more control out of my setup so I decided to redo my build again but with better components all together and get a stand alone computer to control everything. The hellion kit is a good kit and I felt that it made great power but now I want a more custom kit with better components, room to grow, and better efficiency with out compounding.I also did not want to deal with relocating everything when I decide to go automatic, which is probably real soon. I initially did not want relocate a bunch of FORD OEM parts in the engine bay (hellion was great about that) but now I feel it's needed for what I really want in a turbo kit.
Auto Adrenaline Performance Did everything here my motor build hellion turbo kit and SCT tune.


......And so my current build is underway.
Again.

And now with more money in the pit.....

First Purchase of the new project and First Piece of the puzzle.
So now my car is at a local shop called D3 Performance Engineering. They specialize in custom fabrication and custom engine management wiring.
I felt that the Ford ECM was limited in controls and capabilities so I decided to purchase a Pro EFI system with all the accessories.
All the accessories:
- Pro128 Production ECU Kit
- Pro128 Plug and Pin Kit with ECU Comm Cable
- CAN Cable Kit (Leaf Light Cable and DB9 Can adapter)
- Fuel Pressure Sensor kit
- Oil pressure sensor kit
- Nitrous Pressure sensor kit
- 5bar Map sensor kit
- Air Temp Sensor with Plug and pins
- Coolant Sensor with Plug and Pins
- (x2) - LSU 4.2 O2 Sensor Kit (Sensor and Harness)
- 5 position I-Boost Switch + Boost control solenoid
- (x2) - Exhaust Backpressure Sensor kit with 7 bar sensor
- 4 Channel Ghost Monitor (for wheel speed)
- Flex fuel sensor kit
- (2) 4 Channel Ignitor Kits

Here is the custom harness to connect everything to the car.

Since the GT500 RPM gauges didn't display high RPM I opted for the racepak IQ3 to monitor anything and everything.

 

[FordTT500]

Burns 321 Slip Fit collectors.

 

[2011 gtcs]

Damn that's a badass build man

 

[PistolWhip]

HOLY ALL OUT AWESOME! Are you back halfing that thing or what? How the heck are you gonna get it to hook?

I can't wait to follow this build, it's gonna be epic.

 

[FordTT500]

HOLY ALL OUT AWESOME! Are you back halfing that thing or what? How the heck are you gonna get it to hook?

I can't wait to follow this build, it's gonna be epic.

No back halving the car at all. This car is going to stay a street car.

I will use the proefi to control traction on the street. It will also be used together with boost by speed, at the lower speeds the car will boost less to make traction and ramp up boost to gain more speed.

Here is a video demo on how well the traction control works:
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http://youtu.be/phrfUvKYZpA

 

[HJZ]

You guys in tx do go all out lol. Good stuff.

 

[phinhead34]

That's a bad ass build. :rockon:

 

[oneslo5.0]

My buddy has the proEFI on his supra and it's a NICE system, not cheap....but nice.

Awesome build.

 

[rotor_powerd]

Awesome. I've been really thinking about pulling the blower off of my car. Looks like it's a huge restriction up top power wise, but also makes a huge difference in torque down low.

 

[FordTT500]

Awesome. I've been really thinking about pulling the blower off of my car. Looks like it's a huge restriction up top power wise, but also makes a huge difference in torque down low.

There isn't really a restriction up top. Tony Alm made 1200hp with the blower. torque comes on really early with the blower. you just have to run 35+ psi to get the power you want out of it. the supercharger accounts for a lot of the boost pressure and it's hard to find out if your turbos are in the efficiency range. If you run close to 40 psi or over to get the turbos in the efficiency range.

 

[rotor_powerd]

There isn't really a restriction up top. Tony Alm made 1200hp with the blower. torque comes on really early with the blower. you just have to run 35+ psi to get the power you want out of it. the supercharger accounts for a lot of the boost pressure and it's hard to find out if your turbos are in the efficiency range. If you run close to 40 psi or over to get the turbos in the efficiency range.

I'm at 20 pounds now and melted 3 pistons out of my block on pump gas. Really don't want to go to race gas as I want to be able to drive the car anywhere at anytime, and there isn't any E85 around here. New motor just went in Friday night though - going to have a new tune done on it and spray meth this time around. If I get more into the track thing, maybe I'll look into getting a race tune just for that, but right now it's 99.9% street driven.

Hoping to make some more power with a cleaner tune and meth. Would like to see 800-850 out of it.

 

[FordTT500]

I'm at 20 pounds now and melted 3 pistons out of my block on pump gas. Really don't want to go to race gas as I want to be able to drive the car anywhere at anytime, and there isn't any E85 around here. New motor just went in Friday night though - going to have a new tune done on it and spray meth this time around. If I get more into the track thing, maybe I'll look into getting a race tune just for that, but right now it's 99.9% street driven.

Hoping to make some more power with a cleaner tune and meth. Would like to see 800-850 out of it.

It sounds like you had an aggressive tune on there before with advanced timing.

 

[rotor_powerd]

It sounds like you had an aggressive tune on there before with advanced timing.

Something was certainly loading the chambers with heat. Hope to not have that issue again. :beer:

 

[FordTT500]

Some fabrication going on in here...

 

[FordTT500]

New CNC Flange for a new custom intake.

All vacuum lines will be AN Steel Braided Teflon Lines, all custom lengths.

 

[rlhay2]

Very cool!
Thanks again for the ProEFI information.

 

[FordTT500]

Dry Nitrous Express kit w/nano nitrogen, controlled though the ProEFI. Also at the bottom is solid motormounts for the bmr k-member.

 

[luv2spedup]

great build man... a couple of my friends have Pro EFI on there high hp supra, and its simply amazing how good the traction control is on the pro efi... good luck with the build

 

[FordTT500]

great build man... a couple of my friends have Pro EFI on there high hp supra, and its simply amazing how good the traction control is on the pro efi... good luck with the build

Yep,
Thats how you drive a 1200 hp car on the streets. The traction control feature is awesome.