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Well I have been busy scooping up misc. parts and figured it is finally time to fill you in on what is going down with my car this winter. There is a lot happening and come spring/summer it is going to be a totally different animal.
My goal is to get into the 11s with it. I am going to try to do this with stock bottom end 3.8l engine and nitrous.
I recently purchased the heads/cam/intakes that are going to be going on the car.
Heads: I went with the Abbott Stage 3 heads. These heads feature:
• ARH Competition valve job
• SI Stainless valves, 1.840" intake, 1.550" exhaust
• Fully ported combustion chambers, intake, and exhaust ports
• Decks are milled and combustion chambers are C.C.ed to spec size
• All ports are flowed and tuned on the flowbench to ensure they meet spec flow rates
• Comp 130# valve springs
• Comp titanium retainers
• Guides cut down for high lift cams
• New valve seals
• Assembled and ready to run
• Check for cracks
• Bronze valve guides
For the head gasket I picked MLS Cometic Gasket with a .052" thickness to raise the compression up some more to help NA power and nitrous. :)
Intakes I am going a different route, that actually has never been done in the USA. :shock: I bought some Holden v6 intake manifolds from a place down in australia. The stock holden intakes are a better design with longer runners and such. Looking to gain more torque out of them. I am also using the holden TB so the TB will no longer have the MAF in it like the fbody version has. So I have ordered a LS6 vette MAF to take car of my MAF needs. Lower intake I will be having Abbott Racing port to match the Stage 3 heads I have of theirs.
Cam: I chose the Abbott NA cam for the cam. I was going to go with a bigger one from Lance but the MPG and streetability of it was an issue that I felt was not worth it. The specs are:
ARH Naturally Aspirated cam
-210/220 @ .050
-.320" lobe lift on the intake, .512 with a 1.6 rocker ratio
-.320 lobe lift on the exhaust, .512 with a 1.6 rocker ratio
-112 lobe separation
misc items to install as well:
- JP double roller timing chain
- remove balance shaft
- Comp OE lifters
- ARP head studs
- ARP reusable rocker arm bolts
- PLX wideband
- TA performance Rear cover and stud kit
- UMI panhard bar
Oh yea and I am also doing a rear seat delete that will have two nitrous bottles mounted to it along with a fire extinguisher since I don't use the back seats anyways. My nitrous setup will stay with the two stage setup that I have now. First stage is dry, second stage is wet.
I am still looking for a TC stall yet, I want to get a 3500 stall and I am waiting for a guy I know to start parting his car out that he is no longer going to race. He has a nice TCI stall that is 3500 and cut some great times with. Yea that is you Floyd :P
So yea, sorry to drag this post on and on, but I thought some of you guys here would be interested in hearing my plans. Stay tuned for progress in the next few weeks. :)
My goal is to get into the 11s with it. I am going to try to do this with stock bottom end 3.8l engine and nitrous.
I recently purchased the heads/cam/intakes that are going to be going on the car.
Heads: I went with the Abbott Stage 3 heads. These heads feature:
• ARH Competition valve job
• SI Stainless valves, 1.840" intake, 1.550" exhaust
• Fully ported combustion chambers, intake, and exhaust ports
• Decks are milled and combustion chambers are C.C.ed to spec size
• All ports are flowed and tuned on the flowbench to ensure they meet spec flow rates
• Comp 130# valve springs
• Comp titanium retainers
• Guides cut down for high lift cams
• New valve seals
• Assembled and ready to run
• Check for cracks
• Bronze valve guides
For the head gasket I picked MLS Cometic Gasket with a .052" thickness to raise the compression up some more to help NA power and nitrous. :)
Intakes I am going a different route, that actually has never been done in the USA. :shock: I bought some Holden v6 intake manifolds from a place down in australia. The stock holden intakes are a better design with longer runners and such. Looking to gain more torque out of them. I am also using the holden TB so the TB will no longer have the MAF in it like the fbody version has. So I have ordered a LS6 vette MAF to take car of my MAF needs. Lower intake I will be having Abbott Racing port to match the Stage 3 heads I have of theirs.
Cam: I chose the Abbott NA cam for the cam. I was going to go with a bigger one from Lance but the MPG and streetability of it was an issue that I felt was not worth it. The specs are:
ARH Naturally Aspirated cam
-210/220 @ .050
-.320" lobe lift on the intake, .512 with a 1.6 rocker ratio
-.320 lobe lift on the exhaust, .512 with a 1.6 rocker ratio
-112 lobe separation
misc items to install as well:
- JP double roller timing chain
- remove balance shaft
- Comp OE lifters
- ARP head studs
- ARP reusable rocker arm bolts
- PLX wideband
- TA performance Rear cover and stud kit
- UMI panhard bar
Oh yea and I am also doing a rear seat delete that will have two nitrous bottles mounted to it along with a fire extinguisher since I don't use the back seats anyways. My nitrous setup will stay with the two stage setup that I have now. First stage is dry, second stage is wet.
I am still looking for a TC stall yet, I want to get a 3500 stall and I am waiting for a guy I know to start parting his car out that he is no longer going to race. He has a nice TCI stall that is 3500 and cut some great times with. Yea that is you Floyd :P
So yea, sorry to drag this post on and on, but I thought some of you guys here would be interested in hearing my plans. Stay tuned for progress in the next few weeks. :)
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