Little update

[97stanger]

Hey fellas. Haven't been on in a while because Ive been really busy with school and all, and of course because the tranny is shot. Well lately ive been trying to really finish her up. I recently just recieved a pretty huge tranny cooler and my BC-Auto 3600 lock up billet converter. The transmission should be finished up within the next month or two and I am also throwing in some blower cams and going to keep it as is for a while. Heres my new goodies!:

 

[dafizuck]

Nice man. Good to see you back. Love your car and seein the sig, hah. Good luck with the rebuild. What are you expecting with the new cams.. 400+ right??

 

[97stanger]

thanks a lot man. well yeah through stock non pi heads and my stock auto i put down 390 something and 400+ tq. This was with stock PI cams. My tuner said upgrading to a custom grind blower cams I should see 420rwhp+...possibly less now with this converter

 

[dafizuck]

Loopy and whiney, in car terms, doesnt get much better.

 

[97stanger]

haha thanks man, I'll keep everyone updated! It is going to feel like a rocket after driving my 94 explorer for the past 8 months lol

 

[NERD]

thanks a lot man. well yeah through stock non pi heads and my stock auto i put down 390 something and 400+ tq. This was with stock PI cams. My tuner said upgrading to a custom grind blower cams I should see 420rwhp+...possibly less now with this converter

I gained 52 peak hp at the same amount of boost from Cushman Motorsports stage 2.5 cams.

 

[97stanger]

does he make any blower grinds?

 

[NERD]

Sorry, those are his blower cams.

 

[97stanger]

thats extremely tempting. If you say you gained that much hp/tq I may give this guy a call. If you dont mind me asking, about roughly how much did you spend? Is he like everywhere else basically with $600 for cams, $200 springs?

 

[NERD]

thats extremely tempting. If you say you gained that much hp/tq I may give this guy a call. If you dont mind me asking, about roughly how much did you spend? Is he like everywhere else basically with $600 for cams, $200 springs?

$528 for the cams (Not regrinds and I had them in a week) and yes about 200 for springs.

Also, if you didn't know, those where with a bad cylinder and a 15 minute base tune (same humidity/temp and timing). I pulled the engine the next day because I lost compression on #8 a few weeks earlier (144 compared to 195 on the other cylinders). I couldn't resist putting them in before the tear down. It was also with a stock long block and exhaust manifolds.

The new set up has stage 2 heads, stroker, those cams and a 15 lb pulley. I chose to go with the 2.5 over the 3 cams because the Stage3's are more for 600+. From what my buddy said the 3's took twice as long to fine tune it for his DD. My goals are up to 600 but no more for me since I have no need for it.

 

[97stanger]

i didnt realize you were going with a setup like that man. thats going to be nasty!! I'll be in touch with you probably in the near future for some more info on these cams and how to get in touch with him. thanks

 

[NERD]

http://www.cushmanmotorsports.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1710

If you email him or register he'll give you another 20% off the listed price. It was between his cams and MPH's blower cams but they wouldn't tell me their specs and they were 700$ so I said screw em. CMS are the best cams on the marker, I've seen them in a dozen different applications. Even his stage 1 NA cams see gains of 35 rwhp. He knows his cams.

 

[justinschmidt1]

haha thanks man, I'll keep everyone updated! It is going to feel like a rocket after driving my 94 explorer for the past 8 months lol

my car pretty much feels like a rocket with the new converter....maybe its just when I get on it from a roll that makes the biggest differance but it certainly hits that powerband hard and keeps it whenever you hit the gas.

I still might be able to get more out of it if I lock it up in third