Shaolin Crane
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thats what he mentioned to me too, he wants to sacrifice peak hp(still with a 500rwhp goal) to gain average power.
345ci Nitrous'd Notchback Progress Thread
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Cobra912
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I love it has decent power down low for driving in 5th gear on the street. Has the power up top to pull gears at 7200. My 331 made 417hp at 6500-6800rpm (dyno sheet shows same hp), 380ft lbs at 5200rpm on a DynoJet in 4th with a 4.56 rear gear. I think I will be putting her back together to finish my dyno session later this fall, we only got to the fuel setting and just pulled timing before she broke.
BTW when I had Ed did this cam I said I would be willing to sacrifice some top end hp so it would still be street friendly, that is why it does not have a ton of duration.
Scott
That's a high revver, you'll be screamin' through the traps with the rear end ratio.
Cobra912
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Thanks alot for compliments, its been a ton of work, yes the lower tq boxes got torn up again, now there a solid plate and should be overkill even for a 9 second car, as far as the cage goes, save yourself the money with the removable door bars, unless you are way out of shape its really not a hassle getting in and out. Since your in michigan you should just go straight to Team Z and have them do all the chassis work, they do some pretty amazing work. Moly is nice for weight savings but i heard people debating whether its actually stronger than mild steel. All the circle track guys use mild steel. My 8pt is moly and i think what ill end up doing is just keep the main hoop and rear bars and run a halo down bars and new door bars. I wish i did a 10 pt before but live and learn, and now most of the interior is out from the bodywork and im pulling the dash to do a heater core so while thats out i will just do the cage and be legal for tying to win dragweek next year
I have my nitrous kit pretty much worked out, going with nitrous pro flow solenoids and bottles, a NX plate thats good for a 300, and a nitrous pro flow progressive controller. The faceplated trans will be fine on the street, its a little noisy and will grind a gear here and there but all in all, there not that bad and a shtload of fun to drive in anger.
Thinkin of selling the blower and going to the spray. Just don't know if I wanna deal with filling the bottle all the time. Are you gonna be running a plate set-up?
Yea, ill be doing a plate with a spray bar between the upper and lower. How come your gonna sell the blower? I think either ones going to have its headaches, nitrous is definitly not cheap. I bought 90% for my kit at a bargain and im still into it for over 800 bucks, and i havent even filled a bottle yet. I dont plan on spraying it all the time but im sure when i start im not going to be able to give it up... THAT STUFF IS BETTER THAN CRACK
Cobra912
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Not sure why, I wanna do more and more racing and getting a wee bit fearful the paxton will take a dump. I know there is just as much chance of parts breakage with spray but I`m seeing so many guys going fast with it. You`re right, it`s not cheap.
Shaolin Crane
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1991notchbackLX
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Cobra912
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Shaolin Crane
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Shaolin Crane
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I like, kinda like a trimmed down version of a GT bumper, with a little mach 1 thing goin on.
You drag racers have it so awesome, i'd be scared ****less to run a bumper like that on the track. I'd probably have to get my heads re-surfaced every month and keep stock of extra brake rotors.
Dude, that bumper is AWESOME! But yea, I think what Guy is trying to get at, are you worried about cooling at all?
Shaolin Crane
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With that bumper i wouldnt be concerned really at the strip, he's only on it for "that 10 seconds or less"
With that bumper i wouldnt be concerned really at the strip, he's only on it for "that 10 seconds or less"
This is no race car, its driven on the street alot, and i drive it to the track as long as it is within 2 hours from my house. I'd drive it to atco or E-town if i didnt have to drive on the ****ty new york roads to get there
Shaolin Crane
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I know, im sure as much as you'd like to, i dont see you staging at every street light haha. Street use never bothers me, its ragging on it that bothers me. Car looks tits man
Ok, got the car back from the shop no problems, that night i pulled the transmission, drilled the holes to accept the 1/2" bolts on the quicktime bell, then at about 10pm tried to take the car for a drive. I look at the temp gauge a minute into the drive and its at 210. I stop the car to check it out and i notice the fans not working, then i tried to get it home as fast as i could and as i was pulling into my riveway it was getting real hot. I wired the fan direct to the battery and got the car cooled down. The next day i replaced the relay on my controller and everything was good. So then that night i deciede to take a cruise, and im beating on the car when the slip connectors on my bassani exhaust came out and my exhaust is draggin on the ground at about 60mph. My buddy came, we threw the exhaust in his truck and i limped it home open headers..... So its been a pretty unlucky couple days, but the bugs will be worked out this week. Tonight i put the Fatmat in the interior, picked up my tailpipes from the coater and re-installed the exhaust. Im gonna have a friend with a welder come over and weld the slip on connectors to the headers so i dont have a repeat of the other night. The band clamps are just not cutting it.
Here's some pics
Here's some pics
Shaolin Crane
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1991notchbackLX
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The car came out killer, man. There's definitely not enough rubber on that rear bumper though. 
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