 My 1500hp road race build |
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 Sep 25 2011, 04:22 PM
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Member  Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266  |
......okay okay I kid, I kid (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Its my drag race car although it happens to be the same color/year as the one I road race (Yes, I am that sick......twin camaros). I thought you guys might enjoy a peek at it anyway! Shooting for 8.50s and 170mph in the quarter.
2001 Camaro SS 370ci 9.2:1 iron LQ9 AFR225s, Big turbo cam Twin Precision "60mm" turbos (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) 2000hp A2W intercooler Rossler Powerglide 10 bolt (JK LOL) (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/IMAG0698.jpg) (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/IMAG0703.jpg) (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/IMAG0694.jpg) Old pic: (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/nhrapass1.jpg) |
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Sep 25 2011, 07:05 PM
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Experienced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 2,038 Joined: 3-March 10 From: Huntersville, NC Member No.: 9,105 |
Wow, do you have a video of it running? That looks amazing!
I love how you can see the light bar of a police car through the smoke in that last picture. |
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Sep 25 2011, 09:37 PM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
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Sep 26 2011, 02:11 AM
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Veteran Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 3,323 Joined: 30-March 06 From: Detroit Suburbs Member No.: 1,144 |
Dunno how you can afford 2 crack habits...
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Sep 26 2011, 03:53 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
QUOTE (StanIROCZ @ Sep 25 2011, 07:11 PM)  Dunno how you can afford 2 crack habits... (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/cool2.gif) Can't afford ONE of them to be honest. Actually bought my "road race" car as a DD initially since the turbo car was always down for so long (cause I can't afford to repair and upgrade it overnight). Then I got hooked on open tracking it. Now that car is also a money pit and slowly truning into a race car. Hope to have the drag car back on the strip by New Years......Then maybe sell it as a turn key 8 second car. |
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Nov 22 2011, 01:46 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
Made some progress today with the downpipes. Just dumping them out the side of the car for now. Once its running we'll worry about how the F to run a 3.5" DP over the K-member on the drivers side. Thanks again Matt. LOVE the work, and the fact that this is just a little project that my best friend is chipping away at in the little free time he has! Sorry for the low quality pictures, they were sent to me as text messages then uploaded from my SD card.
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Nov 22 2011, 01:02 PM
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FRRAX Owner/Admin Group: Admin Posts: 15,434 Joined: 13-February 04 From: Ohio Member No.: 196 |
QUOTE (ninetres @ Nov 21 2011, 08:46 PM) Made some progress today with the downpipes. Just dumping them out the side of the car for now. Once its running we'll worry about how the F to run a 3.5" DP over the K-member on the drivers side. Thanks again Matt. LOVE the work, and the fact that this is just a little project that my best friend is chipping away at in the little free time he has! Sorry for the low quality pictures, they were sent to me as text messages then uploaded from my SD card. (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/IMG958092.jpg) Looks like you're making progress! Question, did someone weld the pipe together using a mig welder and a series of tack welds? I see that the flange was put on with a tig, but the other weld looks like a series of tacks from a mig. That's likely to crack and/or leak. I would absolutely weld that in one continuous bead. Mig tends to start a weld a little cold and then come up to temp as you weld and build heat in that weld. Tacks never really fuse the metal consistently (because they start "cold" and then you stop before you really get the weld "going"). If those are done how I think they are, I'd run a bead over them (which will also remove the craters in the center of each spot weld...craters can lead to cracking). Of couse this is all assuming that I see what I think I see. |
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Nov 22 2011, 01:14 PM
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Veteran Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 3,323 Joined: 30-March 06 From: Detroit Suburbs Member No.: 1,144 |
Looks to me like TIG on a thin wall stainless pipe. Its tuff to TIG thin stuff and the bead never looks as glossy pretty as when welding thicker stuff.
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Nov 22 2011, 07:13 PM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
It's all back purged tig. The welder is amazing. If anything looks funny there is likely a reason.....and the pics blow.
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Nov 22 2011, 07:50 PM
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FRRAX Owner/Admin Group: Admin Posts: 15,434 Joined: 13-February 04 From: Ohio Member No.: 196 |
That's cool. I wasn't sure about the bead on the right (the slightly blurry one..lol). I thought I saw a crater in the middle of a couple of those welds, but it's hard to see (which is why I asked). I'm anxious to see how it turns out!
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Nov 24 2011, 09:35 PM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
I was out there on Tuesday. All the welds look tits in person. It was just the lighting/focus/quality of that pic. I'll keep you guys up to date!
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Dec 1 2011, 01:52 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
Got both wastegates mounted! The idea was to have them symmetrically oppose each other.....but we should have known this was a pretty tough feat. None the less, my buddy Matt had it pulled off until the stupid v-band that the WG sits on just REFUSED to sit flush on the feed pipe. I haven't seen it in person but it looks DAMN close to me! Either way I think it looks BAD ASS, and will only look more narly one the WG dumps are plumbed back into the DPs!!!!
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Dec 1 2011, 03:55 AM
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Experienced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 2,038 Joined: 3-March 10 From: Huntersville, NC Member No.: 9,105 |
Just promise me you'll clean that windshield before you drive it (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Dec 1 2011, 06:30 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
Poor car issue soooooooo dirty (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) been sitting for just over 2 years now! Always been indoors but still is dirty as hell!
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Dec 7 2011, 02:55 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
Got the WG dumps routed back into the DPs. They still need to be finish welded. Then its onto the cold piping!!!!:
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Jan 4 2012, 02:37 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 47 Joined: 26-September 11 Member No.: 109,001 |
Awesome build! What size a/r on the turbos?
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Jan 4 2012, 08:27 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
.81s.
I have some more pics but the last few times i tried to post them here it said there wrre too many for one post. Annoying, so i gave up. |
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Jan 4 2012, 12:21 PM
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FRRAX Owner/Admin Group: Admin Posts: 15,434 Joined: 13-February 04 From: Ohio Member No.: 196 |
I think you have to post them 5 pics per post (if I remember correctly). Just do 5, then another post with 5, etc.
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Apr 10 2012, 04:13 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
Been making some good progress on the car. Hoping to finish it in the next month! Here is the intercooler tank all finished up.
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Apr 10 2012, 01:31 PM
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Veteran Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 3,897 Joined: 3-July 04 From: Pearland, Texas Member No.: 385 |
It looks to me like that tank is about 8" too high back there. I would think that with the weight of all that coolant back there, you'd want it as low as possible. Is there a bunch of piping/valving you need clearance for under that tank?
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Apr 10 2012, 02:24 PM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
QUOTE (CrashTestDummy @ Apr 10 2012, 06:31 AM) It looks to me like that tank is about 8" too high back there. I would think that with the weight of all that coolant back there, you'd want it as low as possible. Is there a bunch of piping/valving you need clearance for under that tank? Needs to be higher than the ic under the dash. |
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Apr 18 2012, 04:35 AM
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newbie Group: Advanced Members Posts: 22 Joined: 6-March 11 Member No.: 56,868 |
I talked to a guy at Buttonwillow in early March 2012 that said he also had a twin turbo drag car. What is the track car. I'm the one with the 1994 Z28 white with the black top.
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Apr 18 2012, 06:21 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
QUOTE (94Will @ Apr 17 2012, 09:35 PM) I talked to a guy at Buttonwillow in early March 2012 that said he also had a twin turbo drag car. What is the track car. I'm the one with the 1994 Z28 white with the black top. Im trying to remember the last day i was out these....it was around then though. Both of my cars are pewter 2001 SS's. Are you the guy trying to sell your car (sorry, i forget your name). If so.....we talk at the track all the time lol. |
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Apr 29 2012, 08:39 AM
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newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 27-April 12 Member No.: 141,820 |
this build looks sick. cant wait to hear it.
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Aug 19 2012, 01:43 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
ITS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!11!!one!!!111!!!
Quick start-up video and then some BAD ASS pictures to follow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSwo5vFFIRc...player_embedded |
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Aug 19 2012, 01:44 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
UPDATE 8/18/12
CAR IS DONE!!!!! Its now with Rick Master Flash at Synergy waiting for his tuning love! Here are some of the final pics! (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/IMG_20120815_205328.jpg) (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/IMG_20120812_225047.jpg) (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/IMG_20120812_225026.jpg) (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/105.jpg) Driver side 3.5" down pipe was a TIGHT squeeze!!! (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/IMG_20120817_015243.jpg) (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/IMG_20120817_021518.jpg) (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/IMG_20120817_042505.jpg) Delirious at ~4:45am (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/IMG_20120817_042404.jpg) (IMG:http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c75/nintres/IMG_20120817_042505.jpg) |
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Aug 19 2012, 01:44 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
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Aug 19 2012, 01:45 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
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Aug 19 2012, 01:45 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
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Aug 19 2012, 02:13 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 239 Joined: 18-July 04 From: Columbus, Ohio Member No.: 410 |
Very nice - sounds awesome
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Aug 20 2012, 08:38 PM
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Experienced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 1,528 Joined: 13-January 07 From: Solebury, Pa. Member No.: 1,589 |
Does your class require a passenger seat??
Are you running in an NMCA LSx class? |
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Aug 20 2012, 09:19 PM
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I build race cars Group: Advanced Members Posts: 4,748 Joined: 31-August 05 From: Central coast, CA Member No.: 874 |
Fuel lines right alongside the driveshaft gives me the willies - if that shaft comes apart it could tear up the filter or hose. Hot stuff nearby too...
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Aug 20 2012, 11:24 PM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 70 Joined: 17-June 12 Member No.: 142,347 |
Correct me if im wrong here, but are those aluminum exhaust pipes???
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Aug 21 2012, 12:45 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
QUOTE (dailydriver @ Aug 20 2012, 01:38 PM) Does your class require a passenger seat?? Are you running in an NMCA LSx class? The west coast hot rod class L10.5 requires a passenger seat. That's what the car was built for. QUOTE (Blainefab @ Aug 20 2012, 02:19 PM) Fuel lines right alongside the driveshaft gives me the willies - if that shaft comes apart it could tear up the filter or hose. Hot stuff nearby too... True. Was just told it might also be against NHRA tech. I'll look at moving them. Should be too difficult. QUOTE (Driver_10 @ Aug 20 2012, 04:24 PM) Correct me if im wrong here, but are those aluminum exhaust pipes??? The downpipe switch to aluminum just before the k member (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Sep 1 2012, 01:14 AM
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North of the border Group: Admin Posts: 2,307 Joined: 4-February 04 From: Montreal, CANADA Member No.: 177 |
is it just me or the tight squeeze pipe is not fully welded (only tack welded) ?
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Sep 1 2012, 10:04 PM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 119 Joined: 4-April 11 Member No.: 65,266 |
QUOTE (Eugenio_SS @ Aug 31 2012, 06:14 PM) is it just me or the tight squeeze pipe is not fully welded (only tack welded) ? Photographed when it was only tacked. |
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