Actually, mine is fine in my vert, one it is all forged steel internals and I did the balancing, so I know it's perfect because I have the hours in it to get it that way, lol. For two, I am running E85 which is an alcohol mixed with small amount of gasoline, to come out to a 110 octane fuel or higher, depending the blend, which means that detonation is next to non existant with the intercooler and a/f ratio. I purposefully tried to get it to detontate under load on the dyno, and it wouldn't. It just stopped making more power, so I backed it down to a sane setting and it is a very safe 600 rwhp. Third, I used a girdle, studs, and it is a blower not nitrous. When I split my block in two, all I needed to do was have the crank polished/turned because of the resulting oil starvation when the oil pump cracked from the block moving around. the block was held together by the scattershield. I was running nitrous, and had just gotten a motorsport epec, and was one of the first 100 produced, no one knew how to work it so I said I would be the guinea pig. I entered in all the nitrous settings and did everything the 'manual' aka garbage afterthought some tecky thought Oh shit, I need a manual for this thing, said to do and viola! first pass down the track, it kind of fell on it's face and started making noise and smoking, and I had already let off of it. We had to tow it back, then PUSH it up onto the trailer. This was my first year with my red coupe, way back in 98. I later learned that the epec nitrous tables are a joke, even einstein and a TV repairman would have trouble wiring this crap up and then that's the easy part, the push this button, then push this button oh and if you screw up the order, you have to start over again or it won't work bull crap. I did it differently. BUT ANYWAY, back to the main point, I sprayed a 250 shot on 32 degrees of timing on 12.5 cr 302. didn't like it I guess. So I drove all the way down to Alabama to Bennett's shop, as he was the only one in the USA that had one of the new R blocks and then it was all uphill from there! Sorry in advance for the long post and jigsaw puzzle of story line, lol.
