Finally brought my turd out into the light!




Think this is the first shot I've taken with the engine bay fully assembled.. got busy in there.


Car is at the dyno facility, but we are swapping a few items and sorting out a clutch issue. Hopefully some low boost/no meth numbers on E85 later this week or next week if all goes well and she cooperates.

 

Hey Chris, The car looks great in the light. Nice job.

 

Wow monster machine....

 

ShepTrans built trans is being rushed to me in the hopes I can still make it to the shootout.

 

Can't wait for the Dyno numbers and to see you make it to the Shootout!!!

 

We're going to start real easy on the boost, as we'll be using a last minute sourced head that's been rebuilt at the machine shop right now and creep up on the tune.

Boost controller is off the car for now, only 15psi springs in the gates.. should still make healthy numbers for such low pressure. But I want to get to know the car and shake out the cobwebs before we let her eat.

 

Makes perfect sense ::nods::

Get it broken in and sorted, then proceed to :


bot hopefully not until:


Good thing:


:P

 

 

Looks real good outside man

 

Crickets for two months???? Things go wrong or what?

 

Copy/Paste from FB - Ran out of time after 3 pulls. AFR was super fat 11.2:1 (gas scale), real conservative timing, runs cut short at ~7500 while we got the baseline in, never turned on the water nozzles and still made 410whp on 15psi! Fuel was E70" lot of power left yet in just leaning on the tune and winding out higher! This was a Mustang dyno.



Torque only trails off even the slightest because cells at that load past 7000 hadn't been tweaked yet.. which shows pretty distinctly on the graph LOL

E70
V3 SD
67mm Cast HX52 16cm T4
NPR 7.8:1 CR
6-bolt rods (ACL Grooved bearing/ARP Rod bolts)
Regular ARP Head studs
JMF Drag IM
Custom T4 Divided EM
Stock 1G Head
GSC S3s
Fidanza Cam gears (0* I / 0* E)
Kiggly HP Beehives
Kiggly HLA
Converted AWD Shep Stage 4
4.153 Final Drive FWD Quaife LSD

Water injection system was in car but not armed.. think thats all the relevant info.

Theres ~100whp left at the same boost level. This is basically the tune that was used to start the car, get fuel and then drive down the block to the dyno. There's nearly 2000rpm worth of map that we didn't have a chance to play with. Going back on 11/9 and spending a few hours strapped down.

 

Strong numbers, but so much potential left! My buddy Shamus would love to look this setup over, but he's up inbetween Winona and La Crosse

He's the one who drives a 600awhp+ white 1st gen

 

Nice. I'm always up to meet another DSMer.

Finally something more substantial than a still of a partially disassembled engine bay:

Exterior:

Interior:
(forgive the GoPro rattling..)

Hopefully I can get out and tune a bit this weekend and get some action shots.

 

IN for action shots!!! I wanna see the "light show" :D

 

Big thanks to Brian Driggs, founder of Gearbox Magazine, for keeping up with my LSR program.


Looking at another update and eventually a full feature. Car is back on the dyno Saturday!

 

Awesome, congrats

 

it looks a great project shown here, i loved it a lot and would appreciate the creative of it, all the best for future

 

Thanks guys! She is actually not that pretty in person (IMO).. I have a bunch of exterior and interior bits I want/need to clean up.

Was supposed to go to the track saturday and after an alignment on friday we went out for some tuning pulls and makes some serious steam when at speed where the headlight scoop is doing it's job. Boost increases well beyond spring pressure and the drive:boost ratio drops even further, as do EGTs.

We never got a chance to go WOT because I don't feel comfortable doing that on the street, but we saw 30-31psi boost on a 3/4 throttle run where this turbo really wants to be and the difference is startling.

 

Final checks and some fuel before the dyno bright and surly tomorrow!

 

Found my base timing (CAS) was 4-5* retarded, fixed, made a pull.. on gate pressure she made 325wtq on Boostin's Mustang Dyno, vs. 301wtq on A*spec's DynoJet. So picked up a good deal on just that alone. Still real fat AFRs ~11.2:1. Boost controller installed, thought we turned the knob all the way down and made a test pull then suddenly saw a 38psi spike and got out of it.

MBC Knob had come un-threaded LOL some loc-tite and a few turns later we went to make another test pull, got to 20psi (only 4000rpm!) aaaaand the lower rad hose decided it wanted a day off. So we got some new -16 hose in the mail and we'll try again this week.

Uploading videos of both (partial) pulls later tonight! :thumb: You could feel the pressure change in the room on the brief 38psi spike :hellyeah: Spool is just unreal for a snail this size, now that the MBC is keeping the gates from cracking prematurely. Devin was pleasantly surprised by that too, compared to having previously had a T3 6766 on the Red Demon

Did a little math with today's new 15-16psi numbers. Though they mean nothing without ET/Trap MPH.. Conveniently, her first run off the wastegates had the same ~7000RPM shutdown today as was used on the DynoJet 224(?):
409whp/301wtq @ 7100

Today on the Mustang 500-AWD:
439whp/325wtq @ 7100

Using 9-11% to convert to DJ numbers gives about 485whp/357wtq! Not bad.

Click to open videos.

20psi Test:


38psi spike: