As some of you guys know my nephew died last year when he crashed a friends t-type that he was taking to do some work on last july. His parents gave me his old GN that I helped him buy a few years ago and I decided to finish what he started. He had purchased a stage 2 block and a stroker crank. He was all excited about the money he was making after finally graduating college and was going to build himself a nasty stage powered car.
Some twist and turns have pushed the project around a little but ALOT of the hardware has been purchased and I'm getting to the point to where I should be able to start assembly of the car fairly soon (at least start on it anyway). Here's a break down of where I'm at on it:
The short block is fully machined and ready for me and Andy's father to get together and assemble it. Its a 153 oncenter with 3.940" bore, 9 to 1 pistons, and a 3.590" crank. That makes 263 cubic inches. Its got 6.5" carrillo rods, a PTE solid roller, Isky sollid roller lifters, gear drive, and a 3 stage dry sump oiling system.
Topping off the motor is a nice set of stage 2 heads, a pair of twin turbo headers, and an edelbrock tunnel ram converted to injection. The part of the motor that I'm most excited about is that I have a pair of ball bearing turbochargers for it and I also have a pair of PTE 1000 hp liquid intercoolers! Each turbo will blow through its own liquid IC. I think this will be really slick looking. The twin headers I picked up where the coated ones that Kendal had for his car and they look really nice. The Turbonetics T-series turbos with thier big polished compressor housings and gold backing plates look really slick also. If I can make some slick piping for each IC and figure out a nice twin throttle body set up to go on top of that tunnel ram....... I think it will score some points in the " yeah thats cool " category.
I also have a built turbo 400 with a brake, an art carr 9" conv, 30x10.5 goodyear slicks and front runners mounted on pro stars. Big stuff 3, 160# inj, and a king sumo fuel pump.
Pretty quick here I'm going to ordering a 4 link back half kit. Which is a pre-welded rear frame kit with the 4 link set up, panhard bar, QA1 coil overs, drag style sway bar, narrowed 9" housing, and 35 spline moser axle assembly. I'm going to be installing this myself and I hope I get it in straight! Once I get the backhalf kit order and in I can then do the cage and start assembling the car.
I wish I could afford some light weight fiberglass components. When you start talking about stage 2 heads, stroker crank, solid roller cam, twin ball bearing turbos, twin liquid intercoolers, dry sump oiling ect... ect.. A good amount of horse power seams to be all but guaranteed. Then start talking about a back half chassis with a nice 4 link / coilover set up. A nice trans and conv, and some nice slicks. It seams that the ability to transfer the power and put it to the ground effectively will be obtainable. It would be nice to lighten it up and cut it lose and the track but all that fancy stuff adds up and sooner or later the coffers empty. So she'll have to hit the track as a Porker and run whats she's going to run.
When I finish this car I will try to get going on my TTA again. Because of that don't be looking for Andy's car to tearing up the track. All you guys who go fast have warned me that it takes alot of money to keep going fast. I plan on taking it nice and easy on Andy's car in hopes to keep the dollars required to maintain it way down. If I get caught up in even a moderate amount of maintenance costs with his car then I'll never be able to finish my own. During this whole time of collecting the stuff for Andy's car I've always felt that giving up on my own wouldn't be right and that it wouldn't be something Andy would have wanted. Lately I have been considering giving up on the TTA and just selling it. If it does come down to that then so be it.
Well thats about all I got to say about that. I hope all the stage guys running this year have good luck with thier cars. Maybe next year I'll be out there with you. Please don't make fun of me when the "on paper" low 8 second car is only running 9.50. Because if you ask me if I'm afraid of breaking it I will look you straight in the eye and say "ABSOLUTELY!!"
Jason
Some twist and turns have pushed the project around a little but ALOT of the hardware has been purchased and I'm getting to the point to where I should be able to start assembly of the car fairly soon (at least start on it anyway). Here's a break down of where I'm at on it:
The short block is fully machined and ready for me and Andy's father to get together and assemble it. Its a 153 oncenter with 3.940" bore, 9 to 1 pistons, and a 3.590" crank. That makes 263 cubic inches. Its got 6.5" carrillo rods, a PTE solid roller, Isky sollid roller lifters, gear drive, and a 3 stage dry sump oiling system.
Topping off the motor is a nice set of stage 2 heads, a pair of twin turbo headers, and an edelbrock tunnel ram converted to injection. The part of the motor that I'm most excited about is that I have a pair of ball bearing turbochargers for it and I also have a pair of PTE 1000 hp liquid intercoolers! Each turbo will blow through its own liquid IC. I think this will be really slick looking. The twin headers I picked up where the coated ones that Kendal had for his car and they look really nice. The Turbonetics T-series turbos with thier big polished compressor housings and gold backing plates look really slick also. If I can make some slick piping for each IC and figure out a nice twin throttle body set up to go on top of that tunnel ram....... I think it will score some points in the " yeah thats cool " category.
I also have a built turbo 400 with a brake, an art carr 9" conv, 30x10.5 goodyear slicks and front runners mounted on pro stars. Big stuff 3, 160# inj, and a king sumo fuel pump.
Pretty quick here I'm going to ordering a 4 link back half kit. Which is a pre-welded rear frame kit with the 4 link set up, panhard bar, QA1 coil overs, drag style sway bar, narrowed 9" housing, and 35 spline moser axle assembly. I'm going to be installing this myself and I hope I get it in straight! Once I get the backhalf kit order and in I can then do the cage and start assembling the car.
I wish I could afford some light weight fiberglass components. When you start talking about stage 2 heads, stroker crank, solid roller cam, twin ball bearing turbos, twin liquid intercoolers, dry sump oiling ect... ect.. A good amount of horse power seams to be all but guaranteed. Then start talking about a back half chassis with a nice 4 link / coilover set up. A nice trans and conv, and some nice slicks. It seams that the ability to transfer the power and put it to the ground effectively will be obtainable. It would be nice to lighten it up and cut it lose and the track but all that fancy stuff adds up and sooner or later the coffers empty. So she'll have to hit the track as a Porker and run whats she's going to run.
When I finish this car I will try to get going on my TTA again. Because of that don't be looking for Andy's car to tearing up the track. All you guys who go fast have warned me that it takes alot of money to keep going fast. I plan on taking it nice and easy on Andy's car in hopes to keep the dollars required to maintain it way down. If I get caught up in even a moderate amount of maintenance costs with his car then I'll never be able to finish my own. During this whole time of collecting the stuff for Andy's car I've always felt that giving up on my own wouldn't be right and that it wouldn't be something Andy would have wanted. Lately I have been considering giving up on the TTA and just selling it. If it does come down to that then so be it.
Well thats about all I got to say about that. I hope all the stage guys running this year have good luck with thier cars. Maybe next year I'll be out there with you. Please don't make fun of me when the "on paper" low 8 second car is only running 9.50. Because if you ask me if I'm afraid of breaking it I will look you straight in the eye and say "ABSOLUTELY!!"
Jason
