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That actually was the case. After reading more about It saw that many builders do this now. What threw me was the build sheet showed them to be the opposite. But the second ring was in the correct place. I do think that .025 and .030 was a little much for the ring gap. I think I will close that up to .020 and .025 on this one.

 

Brian I do have another Trans Am In the shop :cool: I will post some pictures tonight.

 

Kenny The injectors have been spoken for. I will let you know if they fall through.

 

I will be posting progress pictures of the turbo kit very soon. The headers look great!

 

read up some more. spray and turbo motors use larger ring gaps like that.

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Ray your gonna need a wheelie lisc....

 

 

Holy shit that is going to be sick nasty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Now does your front wheels have to be down to win at the line or can you be in front doing a wheelie?... lol

 

in that case you have to be at the strip faster cause the beem gets tripped by the tires. finish wins on the back tires :D

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Here is some information from the fabricators forum.

 

The headers are made of 1.75" 304ss tubing with a 321ss collector that terminates into a 3" v-band connection. Everything is constructed of stainless steel so you won't have any eyesore rusting problems. They are professionally welded and backpurged to insure top notch weld quality and to avoid any dingle berries on the back side of the weld. Plug accesibility is very good on both sides of the car. All 4 cylinders on the passenger side are easily accessible from the top. The drivers side front three cylinders are accessible by reaching underneath the header from the front. The back cylinder is accessible from the front if you have long arms or can easily be reached from the top or bottom side of the car. The headers are fixtured and will be put up for sale as soon as I finish pricing.

 

The X-Over pipe will be mostly finished up today. I have to move the turbo a little bit for more ground clearance and then fixture the X-Over pipe. It will have some unique features that I do not believe I have seen used before in a X-Over. And will have a Tial 60mm gate mounted to it as well. The beauty of these headers is that we should be able to configure x-over pipes to fit a twin turbo set-up as well based off of the same headers.

 

The turbo is going to be fully supported and I will build the bracket after the X-Over pipe is complete.

 

I'm not sure what I am going to do with the exhaust yet. I plan to start the downpipe off at 5" and continue it as far back as possible. This car will have a full exhaust and I'm going to build it out of 5" if I can fit it, if not it will be 4". This will also be fixtured up and available for sale at some point.

 

Onto what works and what doesn't with the factory accessories. The A/C has to go, the ABS needs relocated or deleted, the factory radiator won't work, and the coil packs need to be relocated. The power steering pump can not stay in the factory location. However we are working on a billet aluminum bracket that moves the pump and reservoir slightly. This will be handy for other kits where PS steering clearance is minimal as well.

 

We'll be starting on the exhaust, I/C, and radiator next week.

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Twin turbo sequential madness!

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I thought I would share these pictures of my new turbo with a shaved turbine housing.

I weighed the turbo and it now weighs 56#. Its my understanding that it weighed 73# to begin with. If you look at the bottom of the housing in picture #2 you can see there was alot of material removed.

The shaving really makes it look intimidating

 

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The block bore cleaned up at 4.040

The pistons should be here next week. I was working on the heads today. Had the new springs,seal, shims ect. My heads are machined for 1.460 big block springs. I am using the Kmotion K-800 valve springs. 160# on the seat @1.850 height. After shimming they should be near 200# on the seat. Decided to lap the valves when I found some bad pitting on a couple of them. I will have to get them ground.

 

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Got my new pistons, they are at the machine shop now so I can get the final hone on the block and the rotating assembly balanced.

Notice how much thicker the new tool steel wrist pins are than the pins from my last pistons?

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The core measures in at 24x12x6 using two 3" thick Garrett cores. Garrett rates each core at 900hp so I'm comfortable saying this is sufficient for a 1500hp car. I'm waiting for the tube connections to get here yet. They are going to be some nice CNC turned hose connections for a 4" tube.

 

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Are those the new *turbo* pistons wesico just recently produced? If there is a lot of skepticism about that piston, with the oil ring land giving way on many documented occasion. There is too much stress in in that area with out enough mass, with the change in wrist pin location from what I have read. On our latest LSX 1000k hp build here at the shop i went away from these pistons for said reasons. I hope you have no issue with them!

 

Ron is doing a nice job of fabrication on the car!

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Are those the new *turbo* pistons wesico just recently produced? If there is a lot of skepticism about that piston, with the oil ring land giving way on many documented occasion. There is too much stress in in that area with out enough mass, with the change in wrist pin location from what I have read. On our latest LSX 1000k hp build here at the shop i went away from these pistons for said reasons. I hope you have no issue with them!

 

Ron is doing a nice job of fabrication on the car!

 

I hadnt heard about that. Hopefully it will be OK. Were did you see these failures?

 

Thanks for all the kind words. the car has a long way to go. Its hard having the car so far away I cant work on all the things that I will still have to do after Ron is done.

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