Project History

8/22/03   We got the flow #'s back on the heads.  Check out the results here http://quicklx.stangnet.com/custom3.html

 8/22/03   The car is finally getting primed this weekend.  The cage is getting painted at this time as well.

11/19/03   Well, when exactly the car will be painted is still an unknown.  I seems as though the car that is in the place where mine should be has an owner that likes to change his mind like a woman.  So until then, I will be waiting for a call from Joe to bring it over.  As for my engine that was supposed to be assembled long ago, it is not finished either.  So, my engine builder and I have made an agreement that if it is not done by the end of November, I will just do it myself.

12/4/03   Finally!  We're picking up the engine this Sunday.  Some milling on the intake has to been done and the stack for the breather has to be welded to the valve cover other wise we would have it right now.  But hey, at this point Sunday sounds great.

12/11/03   As you could have figured we did not pick up the engine yet.  But for good reason!  My engine builder offered to dyno it over the weekend for have price.  Rather than cart the thing all over michigan we decided to leave it with the builder until it goes on the dyno this Saturday!

2/8/04   Well, Here we are several months later......Finally, we have taken delivery of the completed engine.  There are several reasons for why this has taken so long....But I will not get into that.  Regardless, I have made an actual appointment now to get the engine dyno'd.  When the results are in, I will post them immediately. 

2/26/04   The good news and the bad news.....First the good:  The motor is mechanically sound.  Now for the Bad:  The motor idled fine, but when a load was applied to make a pull on the dyno it just sputtered and ran like shit!  Thanks to the lack of testing and or experience in designing intake manifolds by a certain company, the intake sucks.  Turns out that the intake was originally designed for fuel injected applications.  well, it may put up big flow numbers but it seems as though they had to remove all of the properties of a carburated intake that help atomize and suspend fuel to achieve this.  Anyway, the new intake (Super Victor) is being ported and milled.   Have to wait a week and half before the dyno will be available to try again.

3/21/04   Well, some good news for once.....Today we dropped the car off at the painter.  3 weeks and we should have a nice shiney red car to assemble.  Also, the engine was taken apart and inspected...Everything is mint!  Going to try to get dyno time this week.  Hopefully, we'll get to see some numbers this time.

4/15/04   Here we are almost a month later.  Monday 4/19/04 is the day for the dyno.  Also, we have primer!  Added quick pics of the first coat.

4/19/04   The under body is now painted body color...Turned out absolutely amazing!  Its So damn bright that the pics i took are almost washed out.  Check it out!  We are painting the cage on thursday. 

4/22/04   Today was definately a productive one!  The Engine Runs!  The initial numbers pulled were 533 HP and 440 lb/ft Torque @ 7300 RPM!  There is roughly another 30 hp or so to gain from a much needed Tapered Carb Spacer and syntheic oil.  The 20W50 oil used for the dyno pulls ate up an easy 8-10 hp.  So, basically it will be exactly where we expected, in the 560 - 570 hp range.  Next year we are going to add a vacume pump and up the compression to 13 to 1.  This should put the HP up around 600 - 610.  Not Bad for a Naturally Aspirated 347 cui small block.

Also,  We paint the roll cage.  Turned out perfect, no texture/orange peel, or runs.  I'll have pics of the cage up later today or tomorrow.  Hopefully finish painting the car by next weekend.

5/19/04   Today we got the car into the booth for paint.  last week we dropped the K-member and finished the front frame rails.  All I can say is Wow!  Joe B, is truly an artist with a paint gun!  Hell, after looking at what he can do when he has hardly any room to move I can't wait to see what the final body looks like!

6/14/04   Well, we finished spraying the main body last night.  And Joe defininately knows his shit!  WOW!  Its perfect!  We are picking it up Tuesday evening and now we can finally start putting it back together.  Also, we decided to go with the new Tremec TKO 600 and have it Pro shifted by Liberty.  It should be done this week.  New pics of the car will be in later this week.

6/28/04   So far so good.  The interior is complete.  The rear suspension and fuel system are in as well.  The wiring is going good only have the headlights and turn signals left.  The front suspension is finally in and I will be picking it up today.  The old K-member is out and we should have the new one in and aligned in a day or so.  This weekend coming up the engine and trans will be going in!

7/8/04  Progress continues!  All wiring is complete except for the wires to the senders on the engine.  The brake lines and strange front brakes are done.  Front suspension is in and complete.  The car is now back on the ground.  We'll spend this weekend buttoning up all the little stuff ( hide all wires, check all connections for fuel, brakes, and electrical, etc.).  Next week the engine and transmission are going in and hopefully firing it up next weekend.  Not bad for only a month!

8/7/04  After some more altering of "Bolt on parts" we got the starter to engage and then it was finally time to fire it up!  I'm sure there are a few of our neighbors that a not too fond of us at the moment, hehe 11:50 P.M. Saturday night in Livonia...Open headers!  But we did have some a few houses down yelling for us to start it up again.  I think now would be a good time to put the mufflers on :)

This week will be a busy one trying to finish up the body panels for paint, then its just a matter of bolting them on.  We still have exactly 2 weeks before the cruise, so there is still time seeing that it is mechanically and electrically road ready.

9/29/04  Well, here we are, basically october........The car is now done, except for the hood, doors, fenders, trunk lid, and bumper covers.  Oh, they are prep'd but not painted!  We are going to attempt to paint the doors this week, we'll see. 

I have however been taking it for the occasional drive around the neighborhood as is, to make sure everything is in good working order.  The Manual brakes will take a bit of getting used to, as well as the manual steering.  Let me tell ya, this thing hates being down below 2000 rpm while driving!  but up above 3200, well now thats a different story.  We finally got the entire exhaust on the car, and even thru mufflers up to the axle, it is still very load for street driving.  I must say the spintech mufflers do sound nice, and we have the quite ones, they are supposed to be quieter than a flowmaster.  Not too bad at idle, but under a load while driving its very loud even around 2500 rpm taking it verrrrrryy easy. 

Also, found out the dyno at the time my engine was ran was off by 11 hp and 15 lb-ft torque.  Thus putting the intial pulls at 544 hp @ 7300 and 455 lb-ft @ 5700.  I also had the carb tuned by Patrick at Pro systems since then and lets just say it was way off! And the dyno fuel was C12 which was robbing hp as well.  When its all said and done 500 RWHP should be attainable. 

11/18/04  Its just about time for the snow to start flying around here, so we fogged the engine and took the valve train off.  Over the next couple months we will take the exhaust off (headers to mufflers) and have it ceramic coated, finish hanging the body panels, get the interior door panels upholstered, and get ready to rock in the spring.  We are picking up the doors, hinges, and bumper covers this weekend to finally put them on the car.  I will post updates as soon as they occur.

2/7/05 Well, spring is approaching and things are just about complete.  The exhaust system is being ceramic coated and will be ready for pickup on the 18th.  The power windows and other little things are done.  The doors are on the car, but we are having some issues with the "New" door seals.  they seem to be a bit too thick?  Oh well, its only a minor thing.   Finally we will have this car on the road/Track when the snow is gone!

2/27/05 We got the exhaust back from QC Coatings in Shelby Township, Michigan and all I can say is Awesome!  Thanks Bill for the great job with the Ceramic coating!  I also want to thank Sal, Tina, and Mike at Supreme Detailing in Canton, Michigan for the excellent work on the headliner and custom interior door panels that are also now complete.  I will try to get some updated pics on here asap.

3/7/05 The mock-up lever arm that we made for the Clutch activated 2 step is complete and the final machined version will be done today.  The shift light has now been wired into the tach and ready to go.  The fully coated exhaust is now on the car and looks mint.  The time to fire it up is only a few weeks away!

4/11/05 We fired it up a couple weeks ago and the itch to get to the track is getting even worse.  I came across a decent deal on some 15x10 draglites so I figured at the very least we would know how the 10" rim and 28x10.5 slick would fit.  I was told that a 15x10 w/6.5" B.S. combined with a 0.25" spacer was what people were using on Fox body mustangs.  So being the persistant SOB that I am, I continued "massaging" the inner fenderwell inboard until I got a clearance that I was happy with.  There is definately NO need for spacers.  They fit perfect without them and we still have a minimum of 0.375" of clearance to the inner and over an inch to the outer.  Also, the tire is roughly a quarter to a half inch up inside the wheel well.  I drove the car around the neighborhood a bit with absolutely no rubbing.  The car actually rides and handles better now. 

5/18/05  We got the front clip bolted back on finally (New Pics in "spring 2005").  Now we have to cut the A-arms and move them back and in-board in the car.  Not a big deal, but  still something that has to be done before the car can be appraised.  As of right now it looks as though it will be a fully insured road worthy drag car within the next week or so.  The hood and trunk lid are being cut-in tomorrow and final coated on friday.  That gives us the rest of the weekend to get everything buttoned up for the appraisal next week.

5/23/05 Well we finished cutting and shortening the front control arms.  Everything turned out mint.  The wheels are now centered in the fender opening and we still have plenty of caster.  The car actually steers better now than before. 

On another note, we are heading out of town for the weekend and will be picking up an open car hauler during the trip.  Its amazing how much cheaper you can get them out side of Michigan.  I'll be calling my painter here shortly to harrass him about the hood and trunk lid not being finished yet.

5/31/05 We returned from our trip yesterday and made out pretty good in terms of the trailer.  I have to call the painter to find out the status of the hood and trunk lid!

6/20/05 Well, as you may have noticed we have experienced some downtime here.  However, we have made more progress.  Upon trying to load the car onto the trailer, we ran into a small problem....the car sits too low for the angle of the ramps that came with the trailer.  So, we made new longer ones to keep from scaping the front bumper cover during loading.   We also got the other exhaust welded up, aka bullets bolted to the collectors.  LOUD.  This Wednesday, the appraisal company will be out to assess the value of the car so we can get it insured and finally put this thing on the road!

6/23/05 WOW.......The end is in sight!  The car is completely assembled (less the side moldings of course, extra weight :)  )  I'll have pics up shortly.  The appraisal company was out to review the car and the car was given 5's (scale 1-5, 5 being perfect) across the board. Now its just a matter of roughly 7 days for processing then we can get it insured and finally drive it!

7/7/05 After many days of searching for a company that would insure the coupe, we finally found someone who appreciates newer, highly modified street cars.  It is now insured, plated and road ready.

7/14/05 Had noticed some oil on the floor of the garage and traced it back to the "granatelli" sheet metal valve covers.  So, uh...they are now gone.  We picked up some of the ol' faithfuls, the motorsport cast / polished aluminums and some stainless ARP studs.  No more leaks!  Having some problems with the mastercylinder leaking fluid (sucks, some of the fluid dripped on the paint in the engine compartment, yeah that shit eats paint alright.).  Going to figure that one out this week.  For street driving we have noticed the plugs looking just downright nasty.  To resolve this, we are going to try a hotter plug (NGK FR5) and see how things go.  Thanks Jim! 

7/25/05  We finally got the car to the track (see video clip here http://quicklx.stangnet.com/favorite_links.html ), and things went well.  We learned a lot and and made a few passes the best being 11.59 @ 118 mph, which is decent considering this was with absolutely no tuning.  The car was bogging real bad regardless of how high we upped the launch rpm.  6000 rpm and still bogging, and on top of that the trap rpms were only around 6000.  Hitting 4th gear just before the time displays was not a good thing.  Because of this we pulled the rear end over the weekend and it is now in the hands of DTS to get a spool and 4.88 gears (was an eaton diff and 4.10's).  This should get the thing out of the hole without bogging as well as get the trap rpms up around 75-7600.  Also, next time out we will be running the bullet mufflers on the headers instead of the x-pipe and spintech's which was also more than likely contributing to the lacking mph.  Hopefully, the 4.88's and the bullets will get the mph to around 130 and get the ET's well into the 10's.  We'll see in a couple weeks when we make a second attempt.  Before we get to the track again there is some major problem solving to be done with the braking system since we only seemed to be stopping on the fronts.  Yeah, the front rotors turned blue and the rear drums look brand new, not good. 

7/31/05 Well, the New 4.88 gears and spool are in.....WOW!  Huge difference.  Can't wait to see what it does at the track.  Also, we got the brake situation fixed.  We changed the master cylinder and the 10 psi residual valve, had the front rotors flat ground to fix the warped condition, and put a gage on each corner to check the pressure at those points.  All is good, 800 psi in the front, and 1100 psi in the rear.  Its amazing how well it stops compared to before, go figure.  Something must have been wrong with the master cylinder.  Hopefully we can get to the track this week for some more testing. 

8/5/05 We went to the track today and definately made some improvements.  The brakes are working great now (still leaking from the master cylinder though).  The 4.88 gears definately made a big difference.  However, now that the car is leaving harder, we have obviously jarred something loose since the water pump will not stay on.  Yeah, the car over heated a couple of time puking water all over.  Hopefully is just a ground wire that has come loose.  Also, having to short shift the car on every pass and in every gear was killing ET and MPH.  The engine did not want to rev passed 68-6900 rpm, and seeing that last time out we were shifting at 7400 rpm, there is obviously something wrong.  Thanks to Jim Monson for letting us use a compression tester at the track to give some peace of mind.  All 8 holes checked the same.  We pulled the cap and found that the cap and rotor had some buildup on the contact surfaces, wondering if this could be the source of the lack of rpm?  We will spend the next couple days changing some ground wires and find out why the motor quits pulling to soon.  The best pass we made had some funky ET numbers, but the 1/8 MPH was 96.9 and the 1/4 MPH was 123.  Prior to that we made a 11.20 pass at 121 MPH with a 1.52 60ft.  ******Pics of the passes can be seen here http://quicklx.stangnet.com/photo6.html*****

8/18/05  We fixed several issues that came up last time we were at the track over the past couple weeks.  Found out the above times were not made at 68-6900 rpm but only 6700!  Seeing how that is 800 rpm below where I would have been shifting, 123 mph wasn't too bad.  Something with the dials on the rev limiter in the digital 6 box has gone wrong.  After making a couple test passes down I-96 we found it was hitting a rev limiter at 6700 rpm.  We pull off the road turned the limiter to 9900 rpm and looky looky.......It rev'd all the way to 7600 without a problem.  MUCH BETTER :)  Can't wait to get to the track to see what it can run with full rpm.

8/26/05  Well, its back to the track again today.  I will have updates with new ET's and MPH's, along with video clips later tonight!

8/27/05  Our trip to the track this time was still fun of course, but somewhat disappointing.  The best we could get out of it was a 10.901 @ 123.96 MPH with a 1.47  60' time and launching at 6600.  After watching the video you can see that it spun pretty bad on the launch as well.  We were hoping for more out of it but made a jet change and the 60' time, ET, and MPH all hit the Sh*tter!  So we came back from those a number on each....better but still not as good as the 10.90 pass.  Last time we were shifting at 6700 and going 123 MPH. This time we shifted at 7500 and noticed very little improvement.  This is leading me to believe that the jet changes made in the garage were also a move in the wrong direction (added a few numbers of jetting).  So were are going back to original jetting and going back this up coming friday to test again. 

Video of 10.90 pass can been seen here http://quicklx.stangnet.com/favorite_links.html!

11/28/05  Well, the car is down now for the winter.  There are some changes in the works for next spring and they should put the car at 130+ mph trap speeds.  A new custom cam and some other goodies should get it done.  When we have a definite list together of parts or other changes I'll post them here.  Until then, we will be dodging the snow flakes!

12/13/05  The new custom solid roller has been designed and its a whopper for a street car!  Over .700" lift!!  Also an evacuation system will be put in place.  The goal is to pull the engine this weekend.  Once the engine is out, we will check piston to valve clearance to be sure the new cam will fit.  If all goes well, and there is enough room a little milling of the heads will be in order.  Right now the compression is actually lower than once thought.  Its a weak 10.46:1.  So in retrospec the car runs its ass off and a 10 second pump gas car that isn't over 400 inches is pretty cool too!  However, if there is room to do so, a .025" thick cometic head gasket will bring the compression up to 10.7:1 and milling of course would would put it at or over 11:1.  Regardless the cam was designed to work with the compression being only 10.46 to as much as 11.5:1.  A cam, vac pump, a bit more compression (still should be pump gas friendly) and we should be in the 10.3 +/- @ 130 +/- MPH!  Now that is what we were aiming for the first time!   

1/30/06  The above idea of a killer new custom cam has been scrapped due to a lack in funds resulting from buying a new house.  After going over what it would take in terms of springs, machining, valves, etc. the dollar figure was just way to high.  So a new thought of a vacuum pump (from the original plan) and high compression has been put in place.  We decided to go with a set of  9cc dome pistons from Probe Industries which should yield a compression ration of approximately 13.1:1.  This is quite a jump from the current 10.46:1 compression.  The engine is completely disassembled and the pistons have been ordered.  Now its just waiting until Thursday when the pistons come in!!!

2/1/06 Probe Industries and Mark O'Neal delivered not on time, but early!!!  Its nice to find a company that stands by what they say and follows thru.  The pistons look great, and we are going to start fitting them tonight.  We realized last night that the JE/SRP pistons have a compression height of 1.100" and they are currently .005" in the hole.  The reason this brought up some concern is that the new Probe pistons have a compression height of 1.090", which puts the piston .015" in the hole with the current deck.  This is a problem since it will effectly drop the compression from the once thought 13.15:1 (pistons being .005" in the hole) to 12.72:1.  So we are going to have to take .010" off the deck which will yield the compression ratio of 13.15:1.  So the goals for tonight are:  1.  check deck height   2. fit piston domes to the 58cc chambers   3. check pin fit.  Then its off to the machine shop for balancing of the rotating assembly, hone piston pin bores if needed, and decking of the block which should all be done by Friday evening or Saturday morning. 

2/6/06  The Block has been decked, the pin fit has been set to .001" (they came from probe at .0006" which could have been run, but Brian likes them to be at .001"), the domes fit the chmabers without any problems, piston to valve clearances are .120" on the exhaust, and .090" on the intake, the rod bearings came in, and the rotating assembly should be back from getting balanced today.  With some luck we can start assembling tonight. 

2/9/06  All parts are cleaned and ready for assembly.  I am picking up the crank this afternoon from Kinetic Racing Engines where it was balanced and polished.  This was the last piece we were waiting for, so tonight the assembly can begin.  The heads are done.  Yeah, the valve stem seals outside diameter was a bit large for the inside diameter of the spring damper, so when things started moving at some point the spring dampers lifted all the valve stem seals.  In order to fix this a smaller ouside diameter valve stem seal has to be used, not a big deal, but it just sucks...More money, more money!!!  On another note I sent the Pressure plate and disk back to SPEC Clutch for inspection to determine whether or not a it was in need of resurfacing.  It turns out the disk pads as well as the pressure plate are toast!  They are going to Replace all the pads on the disk and send me a new pressure plate for $170.00...Not a bad deal versus the $340 they are new from SPEC.  They were very fast and offered great help.  The new clutch should be here Monday.

2/17/06 The long block is assembled and we should be able to pick it up this weekend providing the modification to damper is done.  Because of the addition of the crank trigger, the pulley would stick out too far causing issues will belt alignment.  To resolve this, the thickness of the crank trigger must be removed (in a lathe) to get the correct groove location.  After that we can, as I mentioned before, fab up the bracket and bungs for the pump and valve covers respectively.  If all goes well and the weather around here gets out of the teens we can put everything back in the car.

2/23/06  The modification to damper and crank trigger are done and on the engine.  We finished up the valve covers and they are now ready for the vacuum regulator and outlet fitting.  Also, rather than making the same mistake as last time we integrated the regulator into an oil-fill cap so this time when we change the oil, we aren't left scratching our heads saying "where the hell are we gonna put the oil?".  The temps around here should be at least in the 30's so Sunday we will be picking up the engine.  As the weather keeps getting better and better, the itch to beat on thing this get worse and worse!

2/26/06  We picked up the engine today and the process of putting it back in the car will start this week!

3/6/06  The finish welding of the valve covers has been delayed a bit but its not a big deal seeing how the pulley for the vacuum pump just showed up today.  To get the correct belt alignment the spacers for the vacuum pump bracket need to be cut 1.71".  Once the correct spacing is achieved for the pump we can start on the bracket for the catch can.  After both the pump and catch can are in place we will start cutting and assembling the -12 braided lines that will go from the fitting on the valve cover to the pump inlet and from the pump outlet to the catch can.  Also, we are re-routing the fuel lines away from firewall, so their new point of entry into the engine bay will be fore of the strut tower.  Since the existing lines are a bit short to make it all the way the engine we are going to be using -10 and -8 bulk-heads which will connect to the feed and return lines that will go to and from the engine.  I will be puting up new pics as progress is made.  I suppose we should get the lead out of our asses seeing how the track opens in 3 weeks!

3/10/06  The vacuum pump and catch can is on the engine.  Check out the pics here http://quicklx.stangnet.com/catalog.html .  Brian should be by this evening with the valve covers and the finish welding completed.  With that in mind we are planning on puting the engine and trans back in the car tonight.  Then the routing of the fuel lines can begin. 

3/13/06 Well, as usual, nothing went as smoothly as planned.  After  indicating the timing marker, we went to set the position of the crank trigger sensor and found that with all the hole locations available, none of them put the magnets where they needed to be in relation to the sensor.  The magnets need to be on the leading edge of the sensor and that just wasn't happening.  So Brian took the crank wheel and has to put it on the CNC mill to slot the holes (in an arc, to follow the same radius as the holes) to make it possible to get the magnet in the correct location.  Also, we had a welding booboo when putting the filler cap bung on the valve cover...Yeah, upside down.  So, its back to the mill to cut the bung out.  I already have another one so it will only be a minor setback.  Besides that, we flat ground the header flanges to actually seal up the exhaust.  When the engine was torn down we noticed black carbon deposits on the bottom of all the flanges at the gasket indicating there wasn't a good flat surface sealing up to the head.  So, now they are done, no more leaky leaky.  The rerouting of the fuel lines away from the firewall is also complete.  They turned out very nice and doesn't look as bad as I thought it might. 

3/20/06 This past weekend was a very productive one...The engine and transmission are back in the car.  We also got the entire exhaust in as well.  Now its just a matter of a few wires that need to lengthened and some warm weather before it can be fired up.  We also got the price on the fuel (C12)...$400/50 gal drum..Here are some pics of it in the car http://quicklx.stangnet.com/photo4.html

3/29/06  A last minute phone call to Patrick at Pro-Systems http://www.pro-system.com/  may have saved us some headache had we tried to fire it up with the carb set-up as it was.  Due to not only the increased compression but the changing of the fuel being used, the carb tune just wasn't right anymore.  The carb was sent out on Tuesday evening and will be here tomorrow (Thursday) morning!  So with everything else buttoned up and the carb now ready, firing it up Friday looks to be a definate.

4/1/06 Well, it was a late night, but it fired on the first crank and outside of a few little tweaks everything went perfect.  The crank trigger works great!  Very very accurate.  The car is now as loud thru the spintech sportsmans and x-pipe as it was thru the bullets that were attached directly to the collectors last year.  So, its definately a little noisier, but it sounds good.  Go here to download a video clip of the new set-up idling http://quicklx.stangnet.com/favorite_links.html

4/5/06 On Sunday morning we took it out for a quick drive to start breaking in the clutch.  It definately seems stronger this year.  Last night we finished the passenger side valve cover.  Meaning, the oil-fill bung welded to the valve cover, the fitting for the vacuum gage line installed and the vacuum pressure relief valve installed.  Today we can play around with the relief valve shims to get the vacuum draw correct.  Hopefully we can get to the track soon!

4/7/06  We adjusted the relief valve and the maximum vacuum pulled is now at 11 inches.  It reaches max vacuum (11 inches) at 2200 RPM.  This should be fine for street driving, but for the track we will be adjusting it to 15 inches at maximum draw.  After setting the vacuum we took the car for ride down the service drive and at roughly 1/2-3/4 throttle from 4000 to around 5500 when I short shifted it completely destroyed the tires! 

5/4/06 First time out with a drag radial!!  We found one of our street tires was leaking a few weeks ago, so rather than going with another bias type tire we decided to give the Mickey Thompson drag radials a try.  Well, we finally got the track today and the first pass was less than impressive in terms of hooking.  With a slick we launch the car at roughly 6600rpm and we knew that switching to a radial would require a lower launch rpm, but how low would be low enough?? Another Drag radial racer suggested around 4000 rpm, and that was WAY too high.  So then we went to 3800, then 3600, and then finally 3400 where it kinda started to make an attempt at hooking.  But now what was a slight issue on the first couple launches was now very apparent...TIRE SHAKE!!  So with "tire shake" thru the first 100+ feet and minimal traction we ran a 11.01 @ 128.8 MPH!!  This was with 35 degrees of timing, 15 pounds in the tires, launching at 3400rpm off the 2-step, shifting at 7400 rpm, and running an AR3910 plug.  the next time out, we are going to pull 4 numbers of jetting out of the carb and possibly add a degree or 2 of timing.  A few more passes on the radials to get the engine tune figured out. Then its time to see what it can do on the 28x10.5 ET drags :)

8/22/06  Damn, the summer is nearly gone and we have yet to get back to the track.  Time conflicts with the local test and tune dates have made it very difficult.  There are more available times for test and tune now so we should be able to get to the track here shortly.  The car definately runs strong, but it is a bit pricey to drive on the street with the added compression and the fuel required to do so.  I will be posting the new times as soon as we get the car down the track again.  Yes, we have been somewhat lazy about getting to the track too.