My old H/C/I combo on my stock shortblock went a 12.03 at 112mph at Cecil County and put down 304/331 to the wheels. On my last run I made a major mistake and went from 3rd gear to 2nd gear right before the 1/8th mile mark which resulting in a quick kiss between the valves and the pistons. That was in April of 2005. The car sat for almost a year as I contemplated what I wanted to do next, and in the end I decided I wanted to try the turbo'd route. After building a killer shortblock and buying the turbo kit my funds were gone and I had no money left over for the fuel system and stand alone. I got the bug to get the car running no matter what so I through on most of my old combo onto my new low compression shortblock. While tuning it one night I pulled too hard on my serial cable for my EEC Tuner and I developed a problem where the car would shut off without warning while driving. I was just starting to have enough money saved to buy my fuel system when this happened, but I had to use the money at that point to buy my AEM stand alone in order to get the car back to drivable status again. Thanks to a lot of help from Mike and Mark the car was up and running in no time, but it wouldn't pull cleanly through the RPM's as it always broke up on me. I changed the plugs, cap, rotor, wires, and coil and it didn't help. I was just starting to get fed up with the AEM but decided to buy an MSD 6AL as a last ditch effort to cure the problem... lucky for me it did. I spent the next few weeks re-tuning it at the FLD's at Ebensburg and then headed to PRP. Here's all that changed from the old combo:
-Dart sportsman based 8.89:1 compression 331 stroker with 4340 Scat internally balanced rotating assembly masterfully put together by Rick at http://www.rnhperformance.com
-pioneer SFI "0" balance balancer
-fidanza aluminum flywheel
-AFR's new LS1 style valve springs/locks/retainers and new old style exhaust valves in my old box stock AFR 165 heads
-box stock holley systemax II intake
-AEM stand alone
-MSD 6AL and coil
The car ran a best of 12.2 at 115mph at PRP which is a solid 2 tenths and 2mph slower than Cecil. It put down 355/365 to the wheels at hybrid. The car is picking up nearly 28mph from the 1/8th mile on, so I know there is a lot more left in it, but running on 7 year old ET streets and having not raced for 2.5 years definitely hindered me a bit with the track numbers. For comparison sake my best time ever at PRP prior to this year was a 12.4 at 109mph. I think the only change for next year will be the addition of a 75mm fox style accufab TB and with a lot of luck a new set of heads to properly feed the beast. If I had to do it all over again I would have stayed NA and did a 363ci high compression engine. :(
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Originally Posted by Martin0660
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