Those truck intakes look good smoothed out.
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Those truck intakes look good smoothed out.
Ruh roh raggy
Lol... that came in quick!Quote:
Originally Posted by firebird_1995
awww its so cute!
That's a shiny snail you have there.
Love the red inserts on the polished housing.
DUDE!!!!! That windshield banner looks awesome!
Lol... just playin... she looks sexy. Always wanted one... identical...but large protouring wheels and a drop. Either way it nakes me think of the Bat Mobile. Im happy for u man.
Sexy :beer:
Looks awesome man!! Badass!
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Fresh paint!: http://youtu.be/SgkowVdTUd4
read your whole build man, you don't f#ck around. that paint looks great, like its still wet. I've liked these cars since they came out, problem was they looked great but were slower than shit. you fixed that problem tho. great build!
Thanks! The paint may actually be still wet lol. Now that it's home I've got more to come
It looks incredible!!!
I'm taking it straight home and putting it in the garage until my driveway dries up and I'll get it back out take some better pictures
Good idea... he really does do incredible work. Love the smoked tails as well.
Great job @arod
Here's a couple more pictures we took before I loaded it on the trailer but the sun was going down. the metallic flake is pretty subtle, you have to have sunlight in order to see the pearl otherwise it just looks black.http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...350d9b1c10.jpghttp://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15...0d0e9acdb6.jpg
So sinister. Why do the head lights look dark?
What is his screen name... tryin to tag him... but i cant get it right.
Was it tinted before?
He hinted the headlights also. @Arod6692
We also tinted the windows
Nice touch on the headlights... adds to the sinister look.
He said he had been looking into this black chrome finish that you could spray over aluminum and we were thinking about maybe trying it on the ProStars
Looks great, we need another picture of both Monte's at BG this year. A redo with the fresh paint on them.
Eh from the distance we took them no one could tell you were rocking original paint and I a bucket of fisheyes lol
I like that. Im sending my pro stars out for black chrome powdercoating.Quote:
Originally Posted by firebird_1995
Holy crap you have over 100 pages on this build Chris lol but yes I'm super happy with the way the car turned out. Still needs a few things here and there but for the most part I'm very satisfied. Needs a good hand glaze when the paint hardens more for swirl elimination. But overall turned out great. Ready to have are two murdered out cars next to each other at the shoot out!!
Great job man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arod6692
Thanks I appreciate it.
His work is amazing, the pictures don't do it justice. I can't wait to show it off this spring
Kentucky! !!!!
I've never had a show car before so Im going to have to do some practicing first
Ur gonna need a folding bag chair... a california feather duster and ur set.
We need to get a portable booth for arod to paint cars at the shootout lol. That paint looks killer. Love the flake
Hmmmmmm may need to come by and drool on it next week
Well its been a while since I've updated this build thread so here goes....
At the shootout, on the very first pass I blew the tires off on the line, peddled it, then had the rotor come loose and limped it off the track. We were able to get it replaced in time for extreme street p/a qualifying. I slowly got comfortable giving it more throttle off the line. It was still hanging up in the higher rpms a little and while the afr still looked good, I chose to dial back the timing a bit. That didnt seem to make a difference and I was noticing a little of blowby between rounds. Is what it is I figured. Looking at the logs (between the dfi log and the trans log, huge PITA btw) I noticed it was shifting at around 6500 vs the 6k I was shooting for. I didn't have time (or want to risk bricking the pcm with just a few minutes before the finals) to change it so I bumped the rev limiter up a few hundred and needless to say, it liked shifting at 6700 a lot. Made its best pass of 10.39 at 131 weighing 3600#. I was pleased but noticed that it had a dead spot while cranking it over. One hole was down on compression. It's a 9:1 compression engine and all the other cylinders were around 175# with #1 at 100#. Despite that I still took it to certified performances dyno day and it put down 625 to the tires. After that it went in to the paint shop. I just got it back a few months ago and not eager to scratch the new paint I kinda let it sit. I was debating on just leaving the engine be for the season and just enjoying it but finally decided on tearing into it. http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/05...9a502a0a14.jpghttp://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/05...fcebd71394.jpg
First thing I found were these beauties. Hoping that was the cause of my compression issue I put the heads back on and lashed the valves and ran the compression test, no change. So off came the head and oil pan and I pulled the #1 piston out.
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Yet another ring land failure. This makes a total of 5 of the exact same failures. 2 that the previous owner repaired, 2 that I repaired when I bought it from the PO (he was done messing with it after it happened again), and this one. I just so happened to have a set of the exact same pistons so I figured what the heck. Golen gaps both compression rings .022 which I felt was too tight so I replaced all the rings and gapped the tops .024 and the 2nd rings .026. Figured that was the reason for the broken lands until one of the pistons I replaced ended up broken again. I've considered the tune being bad but it's been tuned by 3 different people with 3 different ecms so I can't definitively say that's the cause, so with the race season starting, and no time or desire to tear into it again I decided to replace the bad slug, rering the one cylinder and get it back on the road so I can enjoy it for the summer before giving it hell again. I've got a brand new set of probe 2618 alloy pistons ready to go in at the end of the season along with a turbonetics y2k 88mm T6 turbo.http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/05...533e9be9b0.jpg
I've also upgraded the fuel system...
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Currently running e85 and 160# injectors now. Car runs much smoother (especially running on 8 cylinders). I've been taking it for short cruises just dialing in the tune and getting some miles on it. Haven't seen more than 10# of boost yet. I'm hoping the cooler running e85 will help these junk pistons along until the winter when I can completely change things up.
The paint looks great!