BradyPPC

Sorry to hear this Bill. Hang in there.

How much are you looking to spend? I have an extra Matco box I wouldnt mind getting rid of in my home garage. I dont remember off the top of my head what series it is but it is a black 56" wide x 24" deep x 42" tall 11 drawer box. I want to say it is a Pro Performance Series box.

Cool car. Congrats on the new purchase!

Thanks Brian. I appreciate the support and your friendship. Glad to see you happy with your results!

I would say it all comes down to how much power he wants and how far he wants to push to the edge. If he is wanting to go supercharger, the Roush blower is a great blower and you do have the option of keeping the factory warranty as long as it is installed by an authorized Roush dealer, which in Columbus is either us or Krieger iirc. Roush charges a $300 fee to retain the warranty and it is handled by Roush from there on out. You do have to run their tune to keep the warranty. There is usually plenty of power left on the table with the Roush tune. For example, a Stage 3 (which they rate at 575hp) will usually make 490-510 rwhp. With a cai upgrade and tune, we typically see about 80-90 hp gains which is plenty for the stock bottom end in my opinion. Aside from that, a clutch upgrade will probably be needed if he plans to run it very hard and depending on how far he would want to push it, billet oil pump gears also become a good idea. If he is wanting to stay naturally aspirated, a tune and maybe gears (depending on what is in it currently) is about all I would do. The stock airbox flows really well, so there is minimal gain with a cai. There is a tad with an offroad x or h but again, not enough to justify cost in my opinion. Everyone likes to bring up the trans. There certainly has been some issues but no where near as many as everyone would have you believe. I wouldnt worry about it too much. We do a ton of these cars and havent had any trans issues other than some stock clutch failures. Ive also beat the living daylights out of our test car. I broke the driveshaft, the limited slip, and seperated the stock clutch from the pressure plate. The trans still works perfectly fine. The biggest issue really is the clutch not disengaging at high rpm. As power comes in harder, the issue becomes more pronounced. Upgrade the clutch and that becomes a non issue.

Autolite ht1's are 2 piece plugs still. Ford changed the head design mid year 07 to accomodate a smaller one piece 12mm plug but everything 05-07 1/2 still had 2 piece plugs. The only one piece options out there for those motors are brisk or champion.

Congrats on the runs Rocky. That thing moves as does TurboNova's car. The Challenger did make 510 on our dyno on a cooled down glory pull. The owner is a really nice guy and the car is on street tires. It is a 6 spd manual car and makes instant tq so launching it is sort of tricky. Most of the 60's times he was pulling were in the 2.3-2.38 range. I took it down the track once and on a 2.25 60' went 13.2x in the 112 range. On a set of tires, it would be a 12 second car easily. With a few more passes in it, I could have had it in the 12's on the street tires. The mph is lower than what I would have expected on the street tires. We just did a 6.1 auto car with the same blower that made similar power and went 12.04@120.7 on street tires. Unfortunately I didnt have any logging equipment with me to get a log of the car down the track. The car was on e with the fuel light on. I would have liked to have logged it going down the track to see what was happening with temps, if there was any kr, etc.. Unfortunately I did not bring any datalogging equipment to log the car with. I was out there to help Chad from On3 with his twin turbo 5.0. On his base 6 psi kit for the 5.0 , his car went 10.73@131.

Congrats Jim. Glad you found something!

That was an 08 Saleen. I wont go into all of the details on that car but Im the one that actually tuned it.

No problem Chad. It is definitely a 2 way street. I appreciate your patience on getting some of the cars in during the times that I am hammered. It is a 1972 International Scout. It has sort of been a long term project that we have been working on for a while. Basically it came from California with the original motor and 4 speed manual transmission. It was red and rust... Someone had attempted a restoration previously but failed to fix several things. The frame was diamoned, someone had welded new leaf springs in but they were not the correct springs and they were not in the correct locations, etc...The lady that owned it didnt know how to drive a stick so an auto was discussed. That then progressed where it currently sits which is with a 5.3 Chevy motor/4l60e trans combo ran off of an 03 Suburban pcm. It has full heat/ac, Snakeskin leather interior, full Pioneer/JL audio sound system and a few other comfort type of items. The truck is fully driveable right now. Currently it just needs a few minor 'attention to detail' type of items taken care of and it should be finished up. Thanks Paul. I appreciate it.

Wow! Sorry to hear this. I wish your family the best in finding her and my thoughts and prayers are with you.

Thanks for the nice comments guys. I appreciate it! 2012 will definitely go down as a successful year and we have a few projects going on currently that should ensure 2013 is a success as well!

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was going through and cataloging a bunch of pictures from throughout the year. I thought it might be kind of cool to do a quick review in pictures. These pictures are all primarily from our performance division and only covers a small portion of the vehicles that have came through the doors this year. Needless to say we had a fantastic year and we are all very thankful for the support we have recieved from our customer base. Without you guys, we dont exist! So a big thank you goes out to all of you that have used us and from all of us at PPC, we would like to wish everyone a safe and Happy New Year http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC02971.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC02946.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC03316.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC04215.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC03655.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC03649.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC02939.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC03363.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC04450.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC02738.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC02726.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC03936.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC03010.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/200912211605361.jpg http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/2012%20in%20review/DSC03194.jpg

I made a good deal on it to one of my customers.

Yeah, its called Sterling Gray Metallic. I believe (could be wrong...) they discontinued the color after 2011. Thanks for the compliments on the car.

Yes we stock the hood props.

Right at 15k

Lol....Yeah, the 2.8 is barely being spun right now. I will eventually turn it up more. The long term plan is to just build a nasty motor for the car but for now I plan to just keep pushing the stock motor in it. 99% of people that do this stuff will do it on the stock block. So making sure things hold up and will last is helpful for us as well as our customers. Every customer that comes in that we do a blower for, we typically will sit down with and lay out a game plan as well as what the risks and required mods are at the power levels in question. So pushing ours and constantly monitoring things is very, very helpful. This is the original stock motor in the car. The only thing that has been changed is that I swapped the stock oil pump gears for a set of billet gears since the stockers are known to stress fracture and crack which has the potential to take the motor out if that does happen. The car has 19k miles on it so far. 4k were naturally aspirated with a bunch of drag passes on the car. The last 15k were supercharged. 2k of those miles were at the 580 rwhp range, 13k at the 615 rwhp range, and it had 5 passes at the Texas mile between 170-180 mph at the 640 rwhp range on race gas. Ill run it at this level for a while before pushing it just so I can collect data and we can see how well everything holds up at this power level. So far I have broke the driveshaft, seperated the stock pressure plate from the flywheel, and broke the limited slip in the car, so it has not had an easy life.... Just as important as the power is the driveability and reliability of the car at those power levels. I do have 2 more smaller pulley's for the blower sitting ready to go on but I will probably put another 10-12k miles on the car at this power level before going that route.

Here is the overlay on 10lbs http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/COMPARETOTVS10LBS.png And the same overlay on 12 lbs. I never ran the TVS above the 10 lb setup. http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii353/brady/COMPARETOTVS12LBS.png pm sent Unfortunately I didnt get any. We have been so hammered lately that I actually ended up staying after hours on a saturday and finishing the car up on a sunday when we were closed so that we could get it done and get the road testing done before the weather breaks. Im sure I will eventually pop it back on the dyno and get some videos done...

Yeah, I can do that. Ill try to remember to do that tomorrow. The KB is a touch softer down low but then carries on further above 6k. Lol. Yeah, I have 2 car seats in the back of the car right now. How big of a kid are we talking? Lol