What i have been up to
12-07-2010, 12:19 AM
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Well. I bought Gordon's car. He was an admin on here. His car was sitting in WV for about 3-5 years ? So i sold my Nissan and drove to WV and towed it home. I had no idea what i was getting into. I found a dead mouse and snake skin in the trunk ???? Random nests. KDRotary had worked on the car a few times and wow. I'm amazed the car never burned down. Anyway slowly i cleaned, fixed, took apart, reinstalled pretty much everything ? Test drove it. Stock turbos are blown... Took those off. Put an N/A header on and tried to pass emissions. That took about five tries but i passed with a new double cat spl midpipe. Once that was out of the way i installed an hks vosko spec'ized fully divided turbo kit with a GT bb turbo. Fmic some custom piping. Blocked off all emissions stuff. Kahren tuned it, wg spring is only 8psi for some reason. Drag raced it ran 13.0 @ 108 with 2.0 60ft. I need to eliminate the pulsation damper, put a real diff in it, get some braces for the diff/trans. Then i would like to drif the car a little and see what happens. I have not begun to skim all of the work i have done so far.... So that is what i have been up to for the previous YEAR!....
12-07-2010, 09:15 AM
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Gordon Chase not Monsen. The car that used to be on the top banner ? No burnouts until the torsen is out. It has 4.33 gears in there and i don't want it all imploding... Im going to turn up the boost and retune and it should run 11s then on street tires.
12-09-2010, 07:41 AM
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Welcome back. Looks like it's going to be fun. Easy to pick out all the shiny bits from your work since getting the car.
It's probably as cold in NJ as it is here in the midwest, so you likely have some time before the real driving season starts again. Keep us posted.
I'm also interested in your experience with the FPD delete. I was tempted to do it a while back but chickened out and bought a new one. Maybe next time I'm in there.
It's probably as cold in NJ as it is here in the midwest, so you likely have some time before the real driving season starts again. Keep us posted.
I'm also interested in your experience with the FPD delete. I was tempted to do it a while back but chickened out and bought a new one. Maybe next time I'm in there.