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got everything squared away and done

i also got the new headlights and side markers in and on the car .

here are some pics of the finished product :

with the intercooler on :

clearance between blower inlet and radiator :

and the final unit all prettied up and ready to install with the front bumper :

i still have to take pics of the front end on with the new blingy lights 

next up is to beat the crap out of it to see how the latest mods work.

after that the following :

-remove the carb spacer with the meth nozzle ( to gain some hood clearance)

-try to get the other fiberglass hood on there

-relocate the meth nozzle to the charge pipe.

-mess with the tune 

- i might even mess with the interior a bit to "pretty it up "

4/2/11

good lord ! its been over a year since i updated this thread and almost a year since i took the car out on the street !

well i don't remeber what i did since last year but i know i put in a tiny filter ( just like the one on the camaro ) for street driving - i'll have to get a pic of that .

also got a 3 bar SD tune on there- nothing agressive at all , its pump gas friendly 

also went to bahrain a few months ago to try to see what it would do in the 1/4 , and in my rush i forgot to take the filter off and take a peek under the car , well the result was a roasted shifter cable ( from the open headers) and after launching like i was at a traffic light (1.9 sixtyfoot if i recall correctly ) and hitting the rev limiter on both shiftgs for what seemed like forever ,,,,, i got a 10.2 

so i know it has much more in it , then there was the dyno pulls : i took the car to the rollers to get it tuned and long story short, ran out of fuel , it was late , and the damn thing was spinning on the dyno so they couldn't get accurate numbers , but i guess the tune was good cause it made 700ish rwhp 

then there was this week's "outing" :

i slapped on the 4 year old drag radials ( cause the the 6 year old slicks where showing some cracks on the side walls ) and went out the racing spot , had a few runs where the car did very well from a roll (no one wants from a dig ,,,, which was fine by me ), then i races a new skyline GTR that was running on C16 and had a bunch of work done - the car is known to be fast over here and was making some where in the 900 flywheel hp range ; i raced him twice , the first was from a 50 mph roll and with the filter on , where he had the jump which ended with him beating me by about two car lengths .

but man was this thing pulling ! 

then we raced again from a 70 mph roll without my filter and with him getting the jump again : this time my junk spun all the way through 2nd gear and hit the rev limiter , but as soon as i shifted into third the pile launched forward and then i started reeling him in till the finish line - about 1/2 mile - where i was on his rear bumper .

but then this happened

or i guess it couldn't handle the pressure ,,,, or i forgot to conncet the BOV hose - i'll have to check this when i get back to the garage .

all in all i'm pretty surprised how well the pile worked and performed : asses were hauled to say the least 

i guess next time i'll make sure to log some runs to see if all is going well .

and i should have some vids and pics up soon .

Long lives the Junk!

4/10/11

well we went out this weekend to a spot that i now consider street racing heaven ( more than 6 miles of straight , smooth , un iteruppted , non intersected , in the middle of no where yet close , wide street ) 

this place can qualify to land the shuttle 

any how enough with my ramblings, we went out to mess around and for a good friend to test out some mods he made. i basically just slapped another intake hose on ( didn't even take it off the trailer ) . we also messed around with a radar gun and some logging software.

any how here are a few races that i filmed as soon as i got there :

4/16/11

out again to the same spot for some more testing . 

the the car was never taken off the trailer since last week 

we went out on the promise of racing some bikes ,,,, but it was a no show 

so we just messed around some more and "broke in the street some more 

i\m guessing next time out we'll mark out the starting line, 1/4 mile, and 1/2 mile lines and most likely start laying some VHT for some "launch" testing 

any how , here are a few vids of some of the races that took place.

me and a porsche twin turbo from a dig , i launched in 2nd and it didn't help - i need to swap out the 3.55 rear end ratio to a 3.27 to help with traction :

incar footage :

me and the same skyline from the last time from a 40 kph (30mph) roll , started in second :

same race but from an 80 kph (50mph) roll , in second gear:

i'm thinking to spice things up next time i might bump the timing up a few degrees ( more like 5 deg. ) or maybe put some decent gas (not pump gas) and really light up the whick

5/15/11

speaking of traction we went out last weekend for some "testing" . i guess i have more evidence i need new tires ( these 5 year old drag radials are not cutting it anymore )

here is a video of one of the races with a F1C 6.0 camaro from something like a 30 mph roll in 2nd gear , check out the sideways action 

and here it is from an onboard camera , this footage is of two races , the firs is the one above , then we turn back for another hit ,,,, where it gets prety sideways and i had to let off ( check out 2:40 when heading back and look at how long the skid marks are from the first launch, you need to adjust the screen brightness to see them sorry ) 

any how , i guess its getting a bit warm for racing here now : so its time for improovements again 

i think i need a transmission refresh , the thing is getting warm after a couple of races , i also need to relocate the trans cooler from inside the left fender to another place .

another thing that i have been wanting to do for a while is redo the current exhaust ; right now its 2.5" dual pipes with ann x pipe and some mufflers made by the shop that made my exhaust. the bends in the system look ugly and neck down at every bend , so i need to replace them with something decent and a set of dynomax mufflers i had for this project since noah boarded his ship.

another thing i should look at is fixing the rear brakes ,,,, cause they don't work and while i'm on that matter , swap out the rear with the other rear (3.55 to 3.27) to make it a bit more street friendly .