Safe 03 power.

[mrrob96fs]

Alright guys, looking for tech advice here so throw your two cents in please!

I purchased my terminator about 4 days ago as some of you have seen in the talk forum.... I threw on some goodies, goodies being cai, throttle body and plenum, iridium high boost plugs, performance coils and boots, catted x-pipe and exhaust, double pass heat exchanger, plus a 2.76 upper pulley over-motivating the heaton and a diablosport pulley tune. I noticed right away the power difference and I was shocked.

Now.... I want to do this SAFELY.... I don't need my new baby blowing up cause I'm hard on her so I am looking for suggestions on how to keep this setup relatively safe. In the works is a steigmeier eaton port job and I will be heading over to a tuning shop right after to make sure the cobra isn't running lean... any other suggestions tho short of changing out that 2.76 pulley? The only reason I am hesitant to go to something larger is because it was such a pain in the butt not to mention a harrowing experience cranking on the snout of my favorite girl...

All the help is appreciated!

Rob

 

[1999redcobra]

how much were the performace coils and boots, what brand

 

[mrrob96fs]

how much were the performace coils and boots, what brand

They are motoblue... don't know how much they cost on their own as I bought a package put together by rpmoutlet.com for terminators.

 

[Uncle Meat]

STOP RIGHT NOW! IMMEDIATELY GET THE CAR TO A DYNO AND CHECK YOUR AFR!!!

I would not trust those "kits".

Going "larger" with the pulley would cause you to lose boost/power. 2.76 is as small as you want to go and with you Eaton no being ported you're probably not getting the full benefit of over-spinning the blower now any ways.

Go get the car dyno tunes PROPERLY and watch how much additional power you pick up.

On a side note, and just a word of caution.... do a search for RPM Outlet on any Mustang board and watch how many complaints you find. You'd be surprised. They have a pretty bad reputation, but they do have a pretty website which suckers a lot of people in.

U.M.

 

[mrrob96fs]

The blower came off yesterday so there was a grand total of 70 miles on the car with the small pulley. The heaton is on its way to stiegemeier to get ported and the first place it is going after is to get dyno tuned. Do you have a suggestion on programmers for the computer? I have heard the SCT piggyback chips work well.

I figured the AFR is probably screwed up as is with that smaller pulley so I didn't get on her too much. Thanks for the help UM.

 

[Uncle Meat]

Forget the chips, they're old school and anytime a change in mods is made you have to get the chip re-burned. Go ahead and get a handheld tuner like the SCT Xcal 3 and then have a custom dyno tune performed on your car and the resulting tune uploaded and saved to the handheld unit for future use.

U.M.