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The DADMOBILE- 91 244+t

Finally got out to the track this weekend for some heads up racing with a local speed shop. The car wouldn't hold 20psi, kept dropping to 15 and then 12psi later in the day, so not making as much power as it should, ran 14.02 @ 102 with a .900 reaction and a 2.7 60ft.. poor launches to say the least. My ONE good launch with a .2 reaction and 2.1 60ft, I bounced the limiter in first and then realized I had stuck the shifter all the way down in first... that run didn't really make me happy.

I did win my first two rounds of the heads up rounds with that though, beat out an 07 mustang gt with a bunch of steeda bolt-ons that "made 400whp" but couldn't crack 13's, then beat out a gmc sierra pickup with gears, tune and a healthy spray that ran 14.1 @ 100mph.

Hope to get the boost control issue lined out and get back out before the track shuts down this year and run 13.5 or better.
 
Can you elaborate on the intercooler mounting? What, if anything, did you have to cut? Any reason you didn't try and put it more forward, between the headlights?
 
Can you elaborate on the intercooler mounting? What, if anything, did you have to cut? Any reason you didn't try and put it more forward, between the headlights?

I chose the location so I would have to cut as little as possible and make charge piping routing as simple as possible and as close to factory as possibleand I really didn't care much about the cooler being centered as far as aesthetic purposes go.
 
I was having more and more problems with my 350k mile modded aw71 slipping in higher gears, so I finally got everything gathered up for a t5 swap and got it shoehorned in there.

Here's the parts list:

t5 from 2004 v6 mustang
ebay 9.5" 23 tooth input shaft
bellhousing, fork, t/o bearing came from a parts car

from tb members:
clutch cable
dogdish lh2.4 flywheel
saab 240mm pressure plate
clutchnet six puck unsprung disc
1 piece driveshaft, shortened unit from a mustang
hurst t5 shifter

I picked up the t5 for $200 locally, unknown mileage and condition, several months ago. I started gathering parts and took the lh2.4 flywheel to a local machine shop to have it milled flat and re-drilled for the pressure plate. After about a month of harassing the guy to do some work, got it done and got to work. I started the swap on a friday evening after work and had it all done and driving out of the shop by about noon the next day.

Pulling the old auto out



My mount solution involved drilling an 8" piece of angle iron to bolt to the t5, and bolt to the plate that bolted to the aw71. Not pretty by any means but it works decently. Time for a new mount already after a night at the track though..



Pic quality is not great, but I drilled a few extra holes in the plate to allow some heigh adjustment of the tailshaft. After getting it where I wanted it, had to trim the angle iron to keep it from bouncing againt the cross member while driving down the road.



Swapping pedal assembly out. I cut out the part where the brake switch mounted on this old assembly to use as a bracket to mount a switch on the clutch for the buchka board's ignition cut feature. Works like a charm.



That was about all I had in the way of pics, was on a time crunch to get stuff done and get it driving as I was starting back to a different job with a commute in a short time and needed the car on the road. But all in all, the car was down for 1 night for this swap, so I was happy. Using the launch control feature of the waste spark board I've been able to get the 60' down significantly from a factory stalled aw71, but I'm still learning to drive it so no killer 1/4 times with it yet. It really transformed the car though, hands down best mod yet. Next on the list is replacing my kjet/airtex pump setup with a dw301 in the tank, and upgrading to some 1000's so I can push all the boosts. I've also got a 90+ I'm working on, and I plan to swap the cosworth housing out for a 0.63 a/r housing I have sitting on the shelf. Hopefully should help with higher rpm power and overall powerband.



In other news, the BlueBrick ran like a champ when loaded down..



Because I purchased a new driveway for the ol' turds to leak on. Lucky for me it came with a house!

 
Well this is gonna be quite the bump. Since the last update I sold the car, bought it back for half the price after about a year, fixed most of the crap that guy broke on it, loaned it to a friend whose car got stolen, he proceeded to pop the head gasket and continue to drive it until he couldn't, then called me to come pick it up.. so out came the whole shebang, and most of it got sold. The new motor is starting to come together for it now, here's the short parts list:

4.6 Teksid block
Manley rods
JE pistons
PI heads & cams
JW adapter bellhousing

still gotta find a turbo 400 & converter, but as soon as this motor is put together I'll put it in and supply pics. I jumped at the opportunity to work on this with a local tuner shop after he was impressed with my s10, so I'm not even paying for the engine... yet haha.

The mark we're shooting for now is a 700whp car to take to drag week.
 
I liked the TH400 behind the 454 in my '73 C10. Huge aftermarket. Learned about valve body shift kits, centrifugal and vacuum modulators. Good fun. An OD would have been nice though.
 
So the mod motor build never came to fruition. I loaned the car to a friend after his car got stolen, the car developed a coolant leak while he had it and he overheated the engine several times before telling me about it, he tried to fix it and broke a lot in the process.. so I decided it was time to do a swap, with the goal of being extremely budget oriented but still be a reliable daily driver.
Parts list as follows:

Stock 03 chevy 4.8 truck engine
built 4l60e with yank triple disc converter
walbro 450
decapped truck injectors
flipped truck manifolds
twin ebay t3/t4 53mm internal gates
0411 pcm on hptuners 3bar os

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