Joe Weinstein

Hi all!
I have a much-modified '86 Saleen!

3000 miles on a Dave Williams 410ci stroked 351 Windsor motor
The car dynoes 330 hp to the wheels, and has a huge torque
output from 1500 RPM to 5000 it is always around 400 ft-lbs.
The intention was to build a smog-legal autocross motor that
would leap out of corners. It is fuel-injected now. With a carb
setup it might gain another 100 hp.

Equal-length long-tube headers to custom exhaust with cats.

T-56 6-speed transmission to aluminum drive shaft to a
torsen limited slip differential.

Full heavy-duty Griggs Racing suspension, including the
Watts-link rear, all installed by Griggs Racing, including
special K-member to set the motor farther back in the chassis.

17"x9" ford wheels with 5-lug conversion, and Baer disks
all around.

Extrude-honed upper and lower intakes. Remote cold air
intake and filter.

Aluminum heavy duty radiator.

Fiber-glass hood with 1.5" rise.

Kirkey delux road-race seat for driver, adjustable.
Interior redone, with a custom storage compartment
where the spare used to be. Rear-mounted Optima battery
with kill switch. Rear seats removed.

Bolted-in 4-point roll cage and fire extinguisher.

Air conditioning is all good.

1.5 qt pressurized oil accumulator for maintaining
lubrication in sustained high-G turns and at startup.

Almost new, very good looking Guards Red paint.

This car is currently street registered in Northern
California.

Known problems: the heater core is leaking, so I'd bypass it.
The racing suspension and mounts transmit differential and
suspension noise to the cabin. It's been muffled with new
sound-deadening material, but it'll never sound like a stock
car. The exhaust is not too loud, but at full-song, it got
flagged at Laguna so I would shift into 6th passing the sound
booth. It still passed BMWs so annoyingly at their track day
event that they almost formed a committee before approaching
me en masse to find out about the car. One ding on an otherwise
new windshield. The starter motor could use a heat shield to
prevent it from engine heat.

Is there a forum-accepted way of expediting 50 posts so
I could list this for sale?

thanks
Joe

04#231SC

Hey Joe,
Welcome aboard, for your first post itshould be more then trying to hock your car. The majority of folks that post here have been doing so for awhile and this is a true community of Saleen - Roush owners /enthusiats and so is not your typical drive by site to sell stuff. If you want us to be intersted in what you have to sell, come in and contribute to the site instead of trying to sell us something right off the bat.

If you dont have time for that, no harm and no foul, but there are specific places to sell your car. Try Performance Autosport they have a great website for selling Saleen Mustangs.

Good luck.

Jazzer The Cat

The above quote is music to The Jazzers ears
Welcome aboard.

I have been toutingmy Griggs suspension for well over a year now, and everyone just seems to care about high HP.

Jazzer welcomes his new bretheren

Joe Weinstein

Sorry to be a first-post would-be seller. I am truly ambivalent about it because
I really like may car and have given it a lot of attention. It's sad, but I'm feeling
guilty because I'm not finding the time to driver it much and hate just seeing
it under it's cover with the battery tender cable....
I do have fun when I go out though... When the guy did the last dyno, it was
after fixing a throttle cable hangup that was only giving me half-throttle...
The guy laughed that the power problem was so simple, but he didn't know me
from Adam, and felt he needed to do the responsible thing and warn me about
the power of the car... "I know you're a great driver and all.." (He was just trying
to not be insulting, but as I said, he didn;t know me at all) " but this can get
you into trouble...". I did once do an unintentional 30-degree each way fishtail
on cold tires going up an on-ramp, at a really innocent level of throttle input.
My personalized plate is "1G TURNS"

Joe Weinstein

Here's a nice article about how the motor was specified and built:

http://www.bacomatic.org/~dw/engine/wein410/wein410.htm

I am actually talking myself out of selling it!
Joe

eolson

Wow, that's a lot of mods. Erik

scspeedster

Welcome to the forum - sounds like a pretty wild ride - good luck!

sal07b

Nice article on the motor, but [sm=ttiwwp.gif]