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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JeremyAlan" data-source="post: 947259" data-attributes="member: 8259">Never wrote a build thread before but I've read tons of them so I'll give this a shot lolQuick Preface about the car, purchased on July 1st, 2011 from a Company  called Black's Automotive outside of Orlando, Florida. I would never  recommend this used car dealer to anyone as they took 50 days... yes  almost two months to pay my trade in off! Incredibly unprofessional! I  noticed a lot of weird things about the car on the drive home to Fort  Walton Beach. Tried to ignore them as I was just happy to have my dream  car and to get rid of my 2010 Mustang GT. The car had a hair over 50,000  miles when i purchased it.<a href="http://race850.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1799&d=1326503344" target="_blank"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/270802_1810683355471_1491600177_31462880_2046922_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Trading the 2010 for the Cobra<img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/267666_1816301575923_1491600177_31471090_4075524_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Dealer shot of the interior<a href="http://race850.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1801&d=1326503470" target="_blank"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/262391_1816301375918_1491600177_31471089_7125094_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Dealer shot of the engine baySo once I got the car on the lift i found a few things out about it.  It had been modified as well as neglected. I suspect that the first  owner loved and cared for it and he/she is the one that modded the car,  then the second owner drove it into the ground. Carfax says that I am  the third owner of this vehicle. Anyway, I did an oil change and the old  oil came out very black, changed the fuel filter, recharged the K&N  filter because it was black, changed the spark plugs to TR6's which are  a step colder than stock. After that i drove the car home to South  Carolina for a little bit and found a few more things that needed  attention, namely the brake pads were worn down heavily to where they  had begun to dig into the rotor. I also figured out that the rear shocks  were blown so i am replace those as well.<a href="http://race850.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1802&d=1326503567" target="_blank"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/293507_1889511686130_1491600177_31557677_2319748_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Random pic in Navarre Drove back to Florida and this is when my problem started lol. Around  august or so the weather began to become cooler and the supercharger  loved the dense air, i was hitting peak boost as high as 14 pounds  instead of 12-12.5 like i was in the summer. One night a buddy of mine  and i were having a little fun and did a few pulls up to 4th gear.  During one of the pulls i suspect that my Intercooler pump took a poop  and the IAT temps skyrocketed to over 240 degrees. Then the knocking  started <img src="http://race850.com/images/smilies/frown.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> sad day for me.I had to deploy with the United States Air Force shortly after the  knocking started and it was already planned that my father would come  pick up the car and take it to SC to keep an eye on it, now he was going  to trouble shoot the knock while i was over in Afghanistan. He got the  long block out and tore apart the short block a week or so ago and found  a damaged piston that had kissed the cylinder wall. <a href="http://race850.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1798&d=1326503183" target="_blank"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/300794_1950334046651_1491600177_31625106_1986165757_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Dad picking up the CobraAlright, got a few pics uploaded that my father took and sent to me of the tear down and what he found inside.<a href="http://race850.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1804&d=1326567433" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/jkofalltrades/c3249061.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>Valve Covers and Supercharger off<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/jkofalltrades/0c7249c9.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Heads and front timing cover off<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/jkofalltrades/5ffbfd47.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Short block out, you can see the SPEC clutch that the prev. owner had installed here<a href="http://race850.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1807&d=1326567631" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/jkofalltrades/cb2bf429.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>And here is the damage, father said the piston was able to slightly rock back and forth inside the bore...<a href="http://race850.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1808&d=1326567694" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v685/jkofalltrades/bdae34e8.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>This is how she will sit till I get homeSo, the master plan is just a set of new pistons, there are guys  that have taken the stock rotating components to 800rwhp reliably with  the stock stuff. Also a side note, i'm looking to go turbo by next year  so I'm trying to keep a low budget for now.-New pistons with compression ratio between 9.2-9.8:1 (stock is 8.5 or 8.8 IIRC)-Complete gasket set-Hi-volume oil pump-New water pump-ARP hardware where applicable-New bearings-Block is going to be punched out .020 over-MAFia for the MAF, already ordered-BAP for the fuel pumps-Stock injectors should be alright for now(we'll know for sure on the dyno)-Home port of the blower-New set of front Idler pulleys by BilletFlow-Powdercoating the valve covers-Painting various underhood componentsAnd finally, I've already emailed Fastlane Motorsports for the tuning of the car in NC.</blockquote>