I have gotten alot of PM's with pretty much the same question (in diffrent words) and that is:
"WTF??? why you parting it out?"
So here is a short version of what happened and whats going on:
Let's see, where to start...... lol. Well we just dyno'd the car two weekend's ago and made some pretty solid numbers. After 5 pull's we ended up at 748 rwhp and around 730 +/- rwtq @ 20-21 PSI, This was done on 92 Octane pump gas and a little meth injection, A/F was 9.9 to 1 and air temps were at 80* with very little timing
(Side note: It took C16 + Tons of timing to get to the 700rwhp mark with the T76, Pump gas tune with the T76 was 550 rwhp at 13 PSI) So needless to say I was very excited, and then it happened.............................
After the 5th Pull and when we saw the 9.9 to 1 A/F my Tuner was going to lean it out by taking some fuel out and then we where going to call it good, I was thinking like 10.5 to 1 A/F with about 760 rwhp
Anyways as soon as he started the car back up there came a knocking sound from the engine, Cylinder #8 to be exact, well after some investigation, checking Rockers and such and also using a micro bore scope camera (or whatever its called) to look at the Pistons and valves we saw that number 8 has a folded up mystery piece of metal sitting on top of the piston Everything looks perfect in the cylinder except for the piece of metal sitting on the piston 
So now I need to pull the head off and see wtf is up, and pray that it was a stray bolt or something that had gotten into the intake somehow (could have happened when I switched the upper intake) and nothing serious so that I will not have to rebuild the whole engine again
This was all done on load bearing mustang type dyno.
I have not done any C16 race gas pulls yet as I still need to break the clutch in, I don't see why it won't go over 1000 rwhp with 30 PSI and timing.
Another item that I am still on the fence about is that I cannot fit a Air filter onto the Turbo, The Turbo is large and the inlet opening is 5 1/2 Inches across And space is very limited in which I have to use a screen. So now I am thinking maybe switching to a Twin 67mm setup, but then again not sure, maybe just stick this out thru next summer
So far the only items that I have sold are the old setup items that I no longer need. The new interior and the S380R Turbo will probably be kept along with the FAST, unless I get what I am asking
Honestly this whole car over the last 8+ years has been a love / hate relationship, and sometimes I really just need to get rid of it and start a different hobby lol. Over the last 8+ years I have probably spent way over 40k into this car with all the changes and upgrades and what have you.
A friend of mine once said that "if your not having any fun with this hobby, It's time to get out"
Anyway's I guess the straw that broke the camels back is that in the last month I have spent a total of $13,000 in upgrades/etc. on the car to include the labor and yet I will be towing it home
My goal many years back was to build a reliable 10 second daily driver, I accomplished this 2 years ago. But yet this car is like crack in a crack pipe, and I just want more and more, This time around I just want it to be a solid reliable 9 second daily driver with my son's car seat in the back
I'm also tired of the paint job kinda......
Anyway's this is what's going on and what I have been thinking / rambling about so who knows where I go from here.
Thanks for all those that PM'd me asking WTF It's pretty cool that alot of you followed along with me and my car on this expensive journey.
William
"WTF??? why you parting it out?"
So here is a short version of what happened and whats going on:
Let's see, where to start...... lol. Well we just dyno'd the car two weekend's ago and made some pretty solid numbers. After 5 pull's we ended up at 748 rwhp and around 730 +/- rwtq @ 20-21 PSI, This was done on 92 Octane pump gas and a little meth injection, A/F was 9.9 to 1 and air temps were at 80* with very little timing
(Side note: It took C16 + Tons of timing to get to the 700rwhp mark with the T76, Pump gas tune with the T76 was 550 rwhp at 13 PSI) So needless to say I was very excited, and then it happened.............................After the 5th Pull and when we saw the 9.9 to 1 A/F my Tuner was going to lean it out by taking some fuel out and then we where going to call it good, I was thinking like 10.5 to 1 A/F with about 760 rwhp
Anyways as soon as he started the car back up there came a knocking sound from the engine, Cylinder #8 to be exact, well after some investigation, checking Rockers and such and also using a micro bore scope camera (or whatever its called) to look at the Pistons and valves we saw that number 8 has a folded up mystery piece of metal sitting on top of the piston Everything looks perfect in the cylinder except for the piece of metal sitting on the piston So now I need to pull the head off and see wtf is up, and pray that it was a stray bolt or something that had gotten into the intake somehow (could have happened when I switched the upper intake) and nothing serious so that I will not have to rebuild the whole engine again
This was all done on load bearing mustang type dyno.
I have not done any C16 race gas pulls yet as I still need to break the clutch in, I don't see why it won't go over 1000 rwhp with 30 PSI and timing.
Another item that I am still on the fence about is that I cannot fit a Air filter onto the Turbo, The Turbo is large and the inlet opening is 5 1/2 Inches across And space is very limited in which I have to use a screen. So now I am thinking maybe switching to a Twin 67mm setup, but then again not sure, maybe just stick this out thru next summer
So far the only items that I have sold are the old setup items that I no longer need. The new interior and the S380R Turbo will probably be kept along with the FAST, unless I get what I am asking
Honestly this whole car over the last 8+ years has been a love / hate relationship, and sometimes I really just need to get rid of it and start a different hobby lol. Over the last 8+ years I have probably spent way over 40k into this car with all the changes and upgrades and what have you.
A friend of mine once said that "if your not having any fun with this hobby, It's time to get out"
Anyway's I guess the straw that broke the camels back is that in the last month I have spent a total of $13,000 in upgrades/etc. on the car to include the labor and yet I will be towing it home
My goal many years back was to build a reliable 10 second daily driver, I accomplished this 2 years ago. But yet this car is like crack in a crack pipe, and I just want more and more, This time around I just want it to be a solid reliable 9 second daily driver with my son's car seat in the back
I'm also tired of the paint job kinda......
Anyway's this is what's going on and what I have been thinking / rambling about so who knows where I go from here.
Thanks for all those that PM'd me asking WTF
It's pretty cool that alot of you followed along with me and my car on this expensive journey.William
