Horsepower Connection Gear

Horsepower Connection

Our part of the build was the project scheduling, getting necessary sponsors, everything related to the turbo and EFI system. We had a set of previously built headers for a customer who changed his mind and went another direction. It was a perfect time to put these into use. The headers were 1 3/4" 304 stainless steel, 3" collectors with mild steel flanges, they featured the stahl bolt pattern so adaptor plates were needed. We custom build a 3" 304 stainless steel crossover tube with v-band connections. The 91.5mm Precision Turbo and Engine (219) 996-7832 http://www.precisionturbo.net  turbo was installed along with the intercooler core they sent us. Some end tanks were fabricated with 3" in and out that fit in front of the radiator. The custom intercooler is good for 1500hp and worked very well. The 91.5mm turbo featured a 4" cold side outlet and a 5" exhaust side with a 1.0 A/R.. A decision was made to use two 44mm Tial wastegates that we had on hand because of our time frame and that they also would look cool. So some custom wastegate dumps and 5" exhaust were fabricated. 3" cold side turbo piping was fabricated to hook into the turbo and throttle body. FAST http://www.fuelairspark.com (877) 334-8355 sent us a classic bank to bank ECU along with the necessary sensors, we built a custom ECU harness to go along with this ECU. At this time we also were hooking up the MSD boost controller, MSD ignition and distributor in our hidden panel. Our transmission came back from Jeff Neely Racing Transmissions all put together with the supplied parts from TCI (662) 224-8972 http://www.tciauto.com and the supplied torque converter from PTC (256) 383-6868 http://www.ptcrace.com. To top off our build we installed our 90mm throttle body and elbow that Wilson Manifolds sent us. http://www.wilsonmanifolds.com (954) 771-6216. Now we were down to some of the easier stuff, we installed our driveline from Drivelines NW (866) 4-ujoints http://www.drivelinesnw.com. We then modified our aluminum radiator from Performance Radiator to clear the turbo and installed it.(800) 522-2246 http://www.performanceradiator.com/. In the mail we received a really cool set of Mickey Thompson Tires and wheels from Mickey Thompson (330) 928 - 9092 http://www.mickeythompsontires.com. The fuel system was then installed and wired, Aeromotive sent us a really nice fuel pump, fuel pressure regulator and filters. At the end we put the car on the dyno for a couple of pulls then on to testing at Pacific Raceways in Seattle. We ran a best of 9.05 @ 160mph letting out at 1000' and running 144% injector duty cycle. Initially we used 84 lb/hr injectors but found that at 24psi we were out of duty cycle, so some 160 lb/hr injectors were swapped in. We then took the car to paint on Monday.