My little project through the years
 

first day I brought her home at the tender age of 15
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had some ARE wheels, ported e7's and full exhaust and a t-5. Thing stunk like ass the previous owner had the fuel pressure set at 60lbs.

Drove it like that for a few weeks then fixed the fuel pressure problem.
Then I drove it through a hard Michigan winter to school everyday.

that spring I realized what I thought was lifter tick was more then that.
pulled the pan and removed a main bearing to find no materiel left on them and that they were down to the copper. Figured that may have been and oil pressure problem. Made a call to FRPP and got a gt40 crate motor long block with the B cam. A fulidyne radiator was also on my list of things.
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Bought a trickflow intake and c&l maf. drove that around for a few weeks and got tired of getting beat up on by termi's

So I pieced together a vortech v-1 s-trim through ebay and coral. For a total of around 2000 i had a complete kit. bought 42lb injectors. Installed that on a weekend and took it to alt auto to get tuned http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...7/PB020270.jpg put down 376 rwhp and around 380tq. but something was wrong it just didnt feel as though with 9-10 psi it should be that low. Well we found oil in the intake tube and I talked to vortech they said that the housing was leaking so i sent it in and got a new housing. decided to put a smaller pulley on it at that point and took it to Don walsh motorsports he tuned it and I had 476rwhp and 468tq. I was happy with that for now.

went to the track and first pass the T-5 exploded. http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...bcee44b3fa.jpg

Went back to Don walsh and got a tko600 zoom 2 clutch and a fidanza fly wheel
installed that over a weekend. Went back to the track for High school drags where i ran 12.0s all day. couldnt get it to 60ft better then a 2.00.
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so over the winter I got some prostars, and eibach drag springs with 2 air bags and then strange 10ways. Took the 8.8 to DTS and had them put 9in big bearing ends on it with a tru trac and 31 spline axles and a wilwood disk brake kit on it. also got mega bite jr's on the bottom and replaced the bent upr uppers for the stock ones. I also welded in a upper and lower torque box reinforcement kit
went out in the spring and couldn't run better then a 11.98
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So I then drove all summer and in the fall I went looking for a automatic. Found a guy in ohio willing to swap me his dynamic mighty might m2 c4 with a 4000 stall converter and sfi bell housing. We made the trade. I came back put that in over the winter went and got the car retuned for the auto made 386hp and 374 tq. http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...th97/trans.jpg
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First time out that spring ran a 11.09 foot braking at 121.78

Next move was to get the front end squared away.

So I headed down the road to Team Z motorsports and picked up a tubular k member with arms and coilovers, along with a bump steer kit and a manual rack from flaming river. I installed that with my dad over the course of a weekend. I took the power steering pump off and also removed the A/C compressor, evaporator and the condenser. The Next step was an electric fan to aid with the cooling which was much improved after the ac condenser was removed. So i bought a svt contour electric fan because that was the only one that would fit in between the crank pulley and my radiator that had a shoud on it. I made a call to flexalite and picked up a VSC and intalled that along with a custom aluminum over flow can from my sponsor. also located the battery to the rear
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Finally this fall I removed the rear whale tail and installed my skinny kid race cars drag spoiler. hooked up the trans brake and went 10.96 at 122.37
before:http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...57998a1d-1.jpg
in between:http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...th97/10sec.jpg
after:http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...th97/wing1.jpg
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What ill be doing this winter is a full mini tub with team z motorsports double adjustable upper and lower control arms a Team z anti roll bar, rear coil overs, and finally a wildrides race cars 10point cage.

heres 2 of my 10.90 passes
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sweet thread, but for the sake of your car... get some smoked lx tails or stock lx's and ditch those nasty alteza things. it would make it look so much better!

good read. i would recommend to others. :p


its nice to see the progression of things, i think its really neat. although you need to get some quality video of that beast, dammit!

I have hd video but my laptop is a dead dog and can not process it. I still drive this thing around town all year long. cept for when theres snow on the ground lol. I have so many pics on the installs of the parts minus engine n blower, im just waiting to help someone lol

came on the car lol, but im looking to find some real 86 svo or 85-86 gt lights

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...th97/turbo.jpg

heres a teaser of what is coming after i get out of college

dart 363 88mm fox lake tfs high ports, custom ground solid roller, wilson intake and meth

thats a big turbo

My buddy has a 275dr outlaw car that's his motor I'll be basing my build on it. Puts out round 1300 hp depending on the temps

haha i figured the lights came with it.

Ah come on, bigger turbo ftw!!

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5291/keithlopez106.jpg

Thats what you need right there! 106mm turbo. Thats a local fox... he runs 8's right now, he drives it on the streets pretty regularly too. At the e85 shootout for 5.0 mustang magazine he ran a 10.00 @ 0 mph. He crossed the 1/4 with his rear tires first, his car flipped around and he hit the sensor so it didn't register a speed lol.

Very nice car though! gonna be cool to see what it does after college

Good stuff. Its funny how a little car can turn into a beast slowly over the years to a straight track car lol.
Why the drop in HP and TQ between tunes??

I wish I could get ahold of a turbo off one of our Bradleys. Its about the size of a 100mm. never did measure it.

the drop of almost 90 hp n tq was because of me going to the auto and also my converter which is now stalled for 4800 is a non lock up so theres nothing ever solid through the driveline its always slipping so you lose 10% with the non lock up and another 10 to 12% with the auto over my 5 speed. dyno numbers are only numbers as i see it now. Don walsh my tuner who won the pro5.0 class for 3 years in a row was running mid to high 6's with only 1300 at the wheels he was using a bruno so its kinda like an automatic yet a stick at the same time. accroding to him "People thought i was crazy telling them thats all the power it made, most guys need 2500+ to run those times, so dont worry about the numbers". Funny thing about the "straight track car" is the guy that sponsors/lets me use his shop is a road racer lol

Thats quite a turbo right there, looks like one of the ones on my dads peterbuilt 17.6L

Nice little scrapbook you have there. I love reading though the build threads, until I remember that I don't have any money to drop on the stang right now, bleh. Sick build

^^^ in the same boat...

off the top of my head, she needs new rear window motors, new weatherstripping, a headliner, new springs, either new control arms or new quad shocks... they are focked...

Im lucky guys very blessed to have a job in the medical field Im working towards getting my bsn in nursing to become a rn and then my masters as a CRNA but as for now 22 an hr as a nurse tech helps when you 20years old

not exactly sure if any of you can see this but here is in car video from nmca milan 2009 the mic wasn't working so barely any sound but good video, this was from true street so my trans was hot from the freeway drive so i just footbraked it for the 3 runs no trans brake cus i wanted to make it live.

http://www.facebook.com/MURSE?ref=pr...=1152677137130
went 11.19 11.22 and 11.21 in the heat it was around 87 out after the cruise

I've actually saw your car a few times. I used to live in garden city and you started building that car when my dad and I built our 86. I'm pretty sure it was right when you started building your car. Looks awesome man.

you know brent? lives over on barton betwen henry ruff n merriman

Nice!

nice story and nice car

Graduated in 09? Well he should have. I think i might have knew him back in the day. Does he have gauges now? I moved my junior year after michigan automotive went to heck which was three years ago? something like that.

he graduated in 07 has a red 94gt and a 88 lx

Haha, OP it seems you're going the same route I am. Currently working towards my BSN but am also dual majoring in Pre-med. I plan to go to medical school while working as an RN.

yeah no med school for me, just my crna make 200k with only a masters program and theres people willing to hire you with 50k bonuses cus there such a huge shortage of them

Oh i know who your talking about. He didn't have a 88lx back then as far as i know. But i remember seeing his red gt at the school im pretty sure. i didn't know he was that into mustangs. always thought he just had one.

Very true. I hope to take enough classes so that I can have my CRNA in four years.

How did you land that nurse tech job? May have to look those up in my area.

Wife of a friend works at U of M ann arbor and she saw a posting and I needed a co-op job so i applied and got a good word from her and got the job

yeah he got the lx back in june and hes going to get a termi saturday

Dang i never knew. Wish i would have known back then. haha.

lol yeah hes a good buddy about to graduate from uofm Dearborn with a mechanical engineering degree. as for now he owns his own landscaping buisness

just got done hooking up a new transbrake and tried it out with my new converter tonight, looks like shes making just shy of 8 psi on launch at 4800. ill be heading to no et nationals Saturday ill make sure to get some good footage

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after we slowed the front end raising up we were able to get a good 60' for the last run of the day, i was racing a 90gt with a 125 shot on it when this was snapped. Looks like i really need an anti roll bar or more air in the right bag?

Got me a nice strange spool from my sponsor and a 3.55 gear set from ford racing today for free cant wait to get these installed this week :)