Almost done rebuilding my notch

[Blind]

Haven't posted anything about it here before...


The car:

Basically, about 5 years ago I bought it for $500, 4 banger, automatic, gray interior, rod knock, clean title, pretty clean body/paint, I'm in CA so there's no rust.

I used a donor car, and swapped in a stock 5.0, T5, and changed the interior to black.
I ran a best of 13.01 @ 104mph with a 1.7 60' with the stock motor, 3.73 gears, slicks, short belt, longtube o/r exhaust...basic bolt-ons
Moved to socal, started road racing and doing more auto-x's instead of drag racing.

Built my `97 fobra, and got bored with the stock motor's rpm range and power, it was still fun but it no longer scared me

I had it dyno'd for a baseline -

not bad...but I want double that.

Before:

as it turns out, it had a blown head gasket, interesting.

stock shortblock cleaned up, just some simple green, wd40, and scotch pads

 

[Dalamar]

looking good so far!

those wheels really set off that notch.

 

[Blind]

new cam, and billet timing chain set

new heads, head studs, and headers

carb legal, one of my requirements, has to be a street car

the guts of the canton road race 7qt oil pan with baffles

main girdle + arp bolts

1.6 rr's

kinda colorful for my taste

the new hair dryer

hiding the engine bay wires in the fenders

looks better without the rainbow barf all over it

repainted the engine bay, last time I just used primer, this time went 2 stage with an acrylic on the top

trying to hide this the best I can

the new street wheel/tire setup, probably going with enkei RPF1's with r-comps for the track next year

 

[Blind]

can't hardly see the intercooler (which is a 3-core procharger air-to-air setup)

filter will be in the fender soon, just have to measure a few more times before I cut the 5" hole for the power pipe

can't use my mark8 fan anymore with the 12-rib procharger belt setup, a stock clutch fan barely fits, I had to trim the stock shroud, probably because of my radiator being larger.

 

[dafizuck]

DAmn man... Ive always loved your notch, this is just icing on the cake. Nice work.

 

[Dalamar]

whoah, lots more pics. nice work

 

[Blind]

haha, yeah lots of pics

thanks guys, I'm looking forward to it being drivable again.

 

[duh09]

I have always loved the pic in your sig with the Bullits. Looks nice man!

 

[Steven]

Pretty badass. Got to love the procharger

 

[NXcoupe]

Glad you said you were mounting the filter in the fenderwell, had me going whaaaaaaaaaat? Looks good, from one procharger owner to another, you will really enjoy the boost. One thing tho, if you can't see the intercooler, it isn't getting airflow and isn't doing a darn thing. Just thought I would throw that in there. Plus, it's not like people can't here the blower when the car's running, lol, so it's not a sleeper.

 

[EastBayStang98]

damn thats one sick notch...ur too lucky

 

[YUNG VEEZU]

real nice