mensrea
04-03-2004, 09:07 AM
So a year ago I sell my Kenny Brown Supercharged Marauder (the first one they did, ya Macs now) to buy a stang... my good friends in the tuning business tell me "don’t buy someone's abortion" and I am like "dude I had it leakdown'd and compression tested, dyno'd and have all receipts, its fine" They said "DUDE save as much as you are spending on the car to spend to get it right"
Get it dyno tuned by the man, get 435 to the wheels, everything looking good... so I head to the track, 12.2 at 118.... things looking decent. Second pass I hear god tell me "you ass, they told you not to buy a modded car" and then bam......... smoked four pistons, busting the skirts off the pistons, smokin the plugs, dinging the crap out of the heads....Can you say fuel issues?
Well, almost a year (and a couple of stops at some shops that will remain nameless-- FYI don’t pay anyone for labor before they do it, and only pay for parts when they actually are planning on ordering them) later the car is in final assembly at Paul’s High Performance (Expensive but sweet!). Car had a SHM long block, with plastic intake and stock PI cams... we wont even talk about the interesting collection of parts that came out of that engine... and an SQ S trim. The previous owner was not to blame, he had a nice conservative tune and the thing would of held up for him for ever
This is what I got going in.
SQ-T trim upgraded blower
After cooled
Renegade Racing Ported Bullitt intake
Little bit of Fox Lake Stage II heads
Some nice aggressive blower cams
And some more renegade racing engine magic.
Had an Aeromotive A1000 with controller, now sold in favor of a Weldon pump with -12 to the pump, -10 to the engine and -8 return, 55lb injectors with a PHP fuel rail. All controlled by the EEC (cool as hell)
Many thanks to the three wise men (Renegade Racing, SCT Guy, and Paul) for putting this thing together for me, and doing it right. Now all I have to do is wait for the final dyno tune (two weeks PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE)
So in a blatant effort at making up for a loss of cash, girlfriend, social life and countless sleepless nigths, here's the total list of mods I will have in two weeks.
1998 Mustang GT Convertible
Engine and drive train
Renegade Racing "magic" long block, includes
Windsor Block, Manley H beams with ARP 2000 bolts, Diamond pistons, etc
CNC ported Bullitt intake
Fok Lake Stage II heads with oversized ferrea vales and compcams beehive spring (already had the heads or would have gone with Renegade's)
Aggressive secret blower cams
Vortech SQ-T trim upgraded supercharger and after cooler
MSD DIS4 digital ignition with tach adapters
Magic tune
Weldon 2015 pump with -12 to pump, -10 to engine, and -8 return
Weldon regulators
EEC controlled
8 rib set up
55lb lb. fuel injectors
PHP fuel rails
Throttle body TBD stock Bullitt now
Big Ass MAF
Hooker long tube headers - jet hotted
Mandrell bent supercharger power pipe
Basani exhaust
X pipe with 2 1/2" high flow Catalytic converters
Fluidyne aluminum radiator
The Man's custom 4r70 tranny
PI stallion triple pate converter
4.10 rear end gears
Trak-loc clutch pack in rear end (ya ya still stock, saving for a 9 in)
PHP tranny cooler (man the braided looks sweet)
Suspension
D & D tubular K member
D & D tubular A arms
D & D Caster/camber plates
Baer bump steer kit
Front coilover kit
Rear coilover kit
Steeda upper and lower rear control arms
Lakewood street/strip shocks front & rear
17" Bullitt wheels
Goodyear Eagle ZR tires - front (2)
Nitto drag radials - rear (2)
Mickey Thompson ET Street slicks on 16" reproduction Bullitt wheels (2)
Black Boss hood applique -- no lettering
Steel bumper insert letters "Mustang GT"
Safety / Race equipment
Art Morrison 5r pt. roll cage with removable swing-out bar
5 pt. harness
Driveshaft loop
Optima trunk-mounted battery with exterior on/off switch
Line lock
Get it dyno tuned by the man, get 435 to the wheels, everything looking good... so I head to the track, 12.2 at 118.... things looking decent. Second pass I hear god tell me "you ass, they told you not to buy a modded car" and then bam......... smoked four pistons, busting the skirts off the pistons, smokin the plugs, dinging the crap out of the heads....Can you say fuel issues?
Well, almost a year (and a couple of stops at some shops that will remain nameless-- FYI don’t pay anyone for labor before they do it, and only pay for parts when they actually are planning on ordering them) later the car is in final assembly at Paul’s High Performance (Expensive but sweet!). Car had a SHM long block, with plastic intake and stock PI cams... we wont even talk about the interesting collection of parts that came out of that engine... and an SQ S trim. The previous owner was not to blame, he had a nice conservative tune and the thing would of held up for him for ever
This is what I got going in.
SQ-T trim upgraded blower
After cooled
Renegade Racing Ported Bullitt intake
Little bit of Fox Lake Stage II heads
Some nice aggressive blower cams
And some more renegade racing engine magic.
Had an Aeromotive A1000 with controller, now sold in favor of a Weldon pump with -12 to the pump, -10 to the engine and -8 return, 55lb injectors with a PHP fuel rail. All controlled by the EEC (cool as hell)
Many thanks to the three wise men (Renegade Racing, SCT Guy, and Paul) for putting this thing together for me, and doing it right. Now all I have to do is wait for the final dyno tune (two weeks PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE)
So in a blatant effort at making up for a loss of cash, girlfriend, social life and countless sleepless nigths, here's the total list of mods I will have in two weeks.
1998 Mustang GT Convertible
Engine and drive train
Renegade Racing "magic" long block, includes
Windsor Block, Manley H beams with ARP 2000 bolts, Diamond pistons, etc
CNC ported Bullitt intake
Fok Lake Stage II heads with oversized ferrea vales and compcams beehive spring (already had the heads or would have gone with Renegade's)
Aggressive secret blower cams
Vortech SQ-T trim upgraded supercharger and after cooler
MSD DIS4 digital ignition with tach adapters
Magic tune
Weldon 2015 pump with -12 to pump, -10 to engine, and -8 return
Weldon regulators
EEC controlled
8 rib set up
55lb lb. fuel injectors
PHP fuel rails
Throttle body TBD stock Bullitt now
Big Ass MAF
Hooker long tube headers - jet hotted
Mandrell bent supercharger power pipe
Basani exhaust
X pipe with 2 1/2" high flow Catalytic converters
Fluidyne aluminum radiator
The Man's custom 4r70 tranny
PI stallion triple pate converter
4.10 rear end gears
Trak-loc clutch pack in rear end (ya ya still stock, saving for a 9 in)
PHP tranny cooler (man the braided looks sweet)
Suspension
D & D tubular K member
D & D tubular A arms
D & D Caster/camber plates
Baer bump steer kit
Front coilover kit
Rear coilover kit
Steeda upper and lower rear control arms
Lakewood street/strip shocks front & rear
17" Bullitt wheels
Goodyear Eagle ZR tires - front (2)
Nitto drag radials - rear (2)
Mickey Thompson ET Street slicks on 16" reproduction Bullitt wheels (2)
Black Boss hood applique -- no lettering
Steel bumper insert letters "Mustang GT"
Safety / Race equipment
Art Morrison 5r pt. roll cage with removable swing-out bar
5 pt. harness
Driveshaft loop
Optima trunk-mounted battery with exterior on/off switch
Line lock