It hasn't really rained as bad as TWC makes it out..(it's supposed to) I'm driving the Ranger today,..I have the Cobra tied to the dock just in case though.
I hope your car hasn't floated away with all the rain you guys have been getting down there over the past few days! Looks like you're in for another hammering today.
I stand.......corrected.
Let me try again.
As for me,....That stopped, somewhere north of 100 mph in the middle of 4th gear.
But I was still smiling the rest of the way home.
This car is stock,..and probably makes close to 400/400
But I'm hooked.
after blasting down the road and hitting boost I suspect mike might think again about keeping it.
Woo hoo, the engine didnt drop out from under the car going down the highway! There is nothing in the air up here, I simply learned that I love being a sarcastic wise ass toward you, because you respond with great whit! This boost you speak of has me itching my crotch and thinking, is this my herpes flaring up or am I getting an itch for a Roushcharger? I really need to stop getting on here too, because I have already spent over $5K on my car that I convinced my wife to let me have because "it would be new, and need nothing..."
Told ya so.
My lightning makes somewhere in the neighborhood of 400/550 + or - at the wheels based on other guys with similar mods. I love it.
The boost is addicting. It still has not became ordinary to me.
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I do like it,.. and I don't know what it actually makes,....but from what I'm seeing it's pretty typical to be in the 400whp range stock. Now I know 400 whp is certainly nothing for anybody here to get excited about, since a 347 can make that pretty easily N/A,....... It's just how the different power curves come at you I guess. It never stops,....it just keeps coming till you lift.
In retrospect,...a pretty amazing combination from the factory,.....made even better by the fact that it didn't cost me 30k to be able to experience it.
Even if the paint don't match.
I believe that you also have a S/C car,.....( What, like a GT 500 I think) Do they sound the same as the Cobra when in boost? Not so much a high pitched 6-71 style whine,..more like what big assed straight plastic gears would sound like being spun at 14k RPM?
Around 3000rpm the mod motors really wake up and the SC just keeps pumping until you let off. Its a thrill. I like the almost instant boost the SC makes. I have a 6# lower pulley and stock upper pulley. It made 14 psi consistently until i removed the cats. Now with less restriction i see 12-13 psi.
If you do not have a wideband air fuel set up i highly recommend getting one. I have an AEM. I found that I was running lean up top. I changed the plugs to the TR6 with .032 gap and that fixed it. I called Brenspeed and talked to them because they wrote the tune for my SCT TUNER that came with my truck.
Turned out the previous owner didn't listen when they told him to use the tr6 plug with the new tune he had stock replacement plugs causing it to be lean.
You want 11-11.5 afr with the blower to be safe. Lean is mean but dangerous under boost.
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You should! We're going to need a new progress thread to follow, now that Mike is done with his car.Stop it. You guys are making me want a tvs for my GT.
You should! We're going to need a new progress thread to follow, now that Mike is done with his car.
You should! We're going to need a new progress thread to follow, now that Mike is done with his car.
Did you guys see that? He put the word "done" in italics so as to indicate sarcasm.
It's like a bold face, triple dog dare to NOT be done w/ the car. Like he thinks now that I've got it running,....now that I've actually been able to step on it a little bit and sample what it feels like to have a supercharged engine,.....that I won't be happy with it for very long.
Or now that I've painted a few parts, I won't really be happy w/ the paint job until I've repainted the whole car.
Huh.................................. shows what he knows .
I would find the opinion of someone with a Fiat for an avatar on a Mustang site a bit suspect.
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hey mike , by any chance do you no what size the bolts are from your t56 to the bell housing ? friend just picked one up for his fox and is trying to figure it out
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I stand.......corrected.
Let me try again.
So,.....I've been trying to find a reason to "fall in love" w/ the car. Despite the fact that I have (in the past) gotten on here and made my dislike for the new edge, and the SN95 "no edge" body styles public, it's no secret that I now own one.
I have also came on in several different threads on this forum alone pis sing and moaning about how I just can't get that into the car despite the terminator powerplant that lurks under the hood.
"Just put your foot down, and you'll change your mind" has been offered as advice to warm up the romance up between me, and the object of my affection.
Now while that may be stern advice for a normal human relationship,..I knew that if anything was ever gonna happen between me and my "yellow metal sweetie",...I was gonna have to do just that. Problem was........Carmax had filled the damn thing w/ regular. Not even probably a decent grade of regular,...probably some bulk priced swill they were able to negotiate down to the barest minimum ( given the amount of cars they have to fill). So justifiably, I've been putting around,...trying to empty the tank so that I could refill the thing w/ 93 octane PP, so that I could "consumate" our relationship.
I've siphoned all of the tank I could using standard practices,..my lawnmowers are full now, and the Ranger is happily sitting w/ the other half of the half tank I was able to drain out of the Cobra. It still left me a half tank to burn through. I finally ran the rest of the junk out last night. I swerved into a Shell where I filled said tank w/ $3.58 a gal 93 octane, and drove the thing another 2-3 miles to ensure that I got all of the old - 87 fungue out of the lines, rails, and injectors.
I headed out to I 459. There is a really long on ramp I use for going home,..and that ramp was now only a red light away from being in front of me.
I turned onto the ramp and shifted into 2nd. Slowly rolled into the throttle and then stomped the thing to the floor.
I was instantly rewarded w/ the automotive sensation closest to crack anyone will ever experience............boost.
Unlike a Turbo spool wheeze,...the Eaton blower makes a whine that is different from any other blower most people reference in their memories when the words "Roots blower" are used. But when that thing starts whining,...and you get pressed into the seat, you cannot stop from grinning. The cool part is you get to shift gears,...and there it is again,.......that noise,..and the weight gain the back of your seat experiences, normally referred to G- force, all increasing exponentially as long as you keep your foot planted.
As for me,....That stopped, somewhere north of 100 mph in the middle of 4th gear.
But I was still smiling the rest of the way home.
This car is stock,..and probably makes close to 400/400 when all that stuff is happening,..I can see why people can't stop modding these things,...as I'm now sure that the sensation becomes...."ordinary" after a while. But for me,....it'll be awhile. But I'm hooked.
There,......is that any better?
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