lol...yep shit changes fast:lol:

Fixed lol. On a serious note nice job man!

Thank you!

UPDATE:


Went today and weighed the FC. This weight includes me(190lbs) and 7 gallons of gas(42lbs total)..................
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...y/FCweight.jpg

I am totally surprised! The company just got there scale calibrated last week and it only has a 5lb error varience WOW. I figured being the heavy turboII model and having the LS1 would have made the car tip 3K easy.

I am happy :)

As for the FC, I have been driving it around like a mad man, getting some miles on the LS7 clutch and just seeing how the car reacts. I leave next thursday for the tune. :drive:



BTW...all horrible crush bending fixed ;)

http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...ay/exhaust.jpg

Well we made it home yesterday..........it was a nightmare getting back. Old man winter HAD to have his last storm the day I come back from my tune!! Talk about a major pucker factor going over two of the passes at 5950FT with no chains(they were making everybody put on chains...we had none.

Rain and snow the whole way back....my car got some minor road rash :(

Lets sum it up for you with pictures:

Car loaded on Uhaul after cursing and having to remove some shit on the trailer to clear the front lip. *Cant open driver door once loaded since car is so low. You have to climb out the window....fun :'(
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...unetrip001.jpg

Then the car cover. NOW the only reason I ran a car cover was last month when I went to Spokane for a family death there was a TON of gravel everywhere. I figured I would take some paint chaffing over rock chips anyday. Soo I put masking tape on all the "high" areas of the body. It worked too, the only parts that got chaffed were the sides of the A and C pillars, and the rear fender.
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...unetrip002.jpg

On the dyno
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...unetrip010.jpg

Dyno vidsurl=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMPoxNbTq4k#]LS1 FC3S Dyno pull[/url]
...LOL I trip on a metal pipe in this vidLS1 FC3S Dyno pull #2

Dyno sheet (yellow lines are best pull, the green was the first pull of the day in 3rd gear for tune testing)
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...ay/dyno003.jpg


Same pull but power levels if at sea level
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...ay/dyno002.jpg


.....engine bay soooo dirty :'( :'( ...took me 2 hours last night to detail again
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...unetrip011.jpg
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The bad weather coming back...after seeing no gravel there we decided to ditch the cover since the weather was supposed to be decent...... lol
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...unetrip014.jpg

The worse weather at the passes....
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...unetrip019.jpg

Now I have to do some major polishing and overall car clean up. Car show next weekend....got to get to work.

So nice to be finished.......kinda ;)

425HP. LOL. Too easy :D
April and Old Man Winter has his last hoorah. At least you didn't drive the 7 to the tuner.

This thing is going to be a blast with 400+ foot pounds torque to the wheels!

Yeah no doubt. Driving would have been horrible.:nod: I am happy I made about 45 more hp and trq on this setup....usually only yeilds 380hp/370trq to the wheels

Dude you should feel the pull, it is like a frieght train lol. :icon_tup:

UPDATE:

Had a huge local free car show today in the downtown area. Figured since I detailed the FC for 3 hours yesterday, what the hell right?
MAN! did it get a TON of attention, I was answering questions from 10am to 3 pm lol. I ended leaving early and didnt hear the car show winners.
Anyway the car is running great and FINALLY the weather is nice so the good driving starts
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...ay/dyno015.jpg
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The NSX and the Civic race car are one of my good buddies(guy in orange jacket). He is trying to sell the NSX. Civic race car has a Integra Type R Motor and shit ton of mods. Car is stripped down to nothing and the motor makes about 196 FWHP....fun car:)
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...ay/dyno017.jpg

meh, I've seen better *lies from being so jealous*

car looks great, I miss the 380ft lbs my FC coupe had, it really is a blast

Thanks Rob! I bet you do man, oh well another day right?
I got to tell you, I am pretty addicted to torque now lol.....cant seem to get enough of it. :lol:

hehe, thanks man.

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Argh, stop talking about torque! You're putting unclean thoughts in my head! :lol:

Looks great man. :icon_tup: :icon_tup:

I satisfy it daily now by daily driving a slightly modified G8

Went for a little joy ride with my daughter this morning in the downtown. Nothing new to report and frankly am still not used to this driving and shit not breaking lol(knock on wood)

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My daughter made this one, very cool!
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Put her in the backseats?

lol.

Nope, since there is no airbag in the vehicle and there are only 2 seats, state law permits her to sit up front as long as she is in a booster seat approved for her age/weight. Many people who own bench seat single cab trucks do this as well.

She loves riding in it since she can see over the dash with the booster seat. She is 5 1/2

That's rad! My little girl is 7, same story, loves riding up front since the airbags in our cars are disabled with her weight. We had a friend lend us his 360 Spider for the weekend so she sat on my lap and drove it, shifted gears too with the gated shifter! In a parking lot though.

What does she think of your car?

Lol, a 360 spider ......lucky little girl! My dad let me do that in his...... 72 Ford F150 haha

She LOVES the car. She is always asking a million questions about the gauges and what not...drives me crazy :nod:. Every now and then I give it about 1/2 throttle and she just laughs so hard. I dont have the heart to do full throttle yet.....traction issues and I am just not comfortable doing that with her in the car.

Yesterday there was a blue neon parked downtown. We were in Subway eating and she looked over and said, "Look daddy, its you car!" I just laughed and said I hope not babe. Any blue 2-door car she sees is my blue car lol.

So I ended up spending 8 hours today polishing and waxing the FC for a Car show this Sat at the local City Chevrolet

I had the usual shit to do: Polished the wheels, deep cleaned the interior and engine bay, polished odds and ends

Now I just got done waxing the car back in early May......why am I waxing it again you ask?...Well for future FYI: The Turtle Wax "synthetic" liquid wax is garbage. It only lasted 3 washes on me. With that wax gone and leaving my paint exposed, my 3-stage compound/polish I did after the dyno trip was not as good as I thought(used liquid ice...professional shit but too aggresive IMHO)....it was starting to show some major holograph swirls in my clear.

So I did some research and bought some Meguiars M105 and M205 compounds since detailers swear by the stuff. I only used the M205 since I wanted to start with the less aggressive stuff first...and it worked GREAT! I had to apply it by hand since my polisher was down. Man the stuff takes out all fine swirls with one coat.

THEN I needed a different wax. I didnt want to do the paste BUT wanted carnuaba wax, luckily I found Armor All Butter Smooth Wax. I saw it on Speed channel all the time and boy oh boy the stuff WORKS AWESOME! You just wipe it on and wipe it off...no hazing. It is almost like it soaks into the clear really fast, almost like it is evaporating...its crazy to watch.

Here are the results:

http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...523-picsay.jpg
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...624-picsay.jpg
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This shot in the direct sun...no swirls at all!!:
http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...1310685707.jpg


I will have some pics of the car show when its over.


Oh BTW: here are some vids of me just cruising around still being nice on the motor a while back. There is short WOT pull at 7 min on the front fender vid, 1st-2nd-3rd-4th letting off at 105mph due to the truck. shitty audio with non-waterproof case. I was checking suspension/fender/tire clearence with these vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3v2S...mbedded#at=558

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXv6Y..._order&list=UL

i like how in both vids you give it that good stare........ then hop in the car lol
she sounds really mean despite the case.

Awesome swap Murray! Car feels pretty good with all that low end torque, eh? And it doesn't stop til it red lines :D

Totally diggin those rims.

Car show went great. I got a large amount of attention, lol I actually stole the show from this all original, matching numbers 67' Camaro right next to me. He polished that bad boy all morning and come time when the show opened sooo many people were talking to me and looking at the FC. The guy was a little pissy until the end of the show when he wanted to actually hear about all the woot-wa was about.....he was impressed.

MAN, the Corvette guys are the funniest. They made it where I almost couldnt get a break....sooo many questions, then they would drag over some more friends and say, "check this crazy shit out!" They were actaully a blast

I didnt place but one of the judges told me my FC was discussed and was a very close runner. Really I was just happy to have it out and shoot the shit with gear heads.

Tell me I dont look out of place....haha

http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...7-16080742.jpg

Here is a link to all the pics of the bad ass vehicles at the show:

http://public.fotki.com/SRCruzzin/20...hite-hot-rod-/

FINALLY went and did a legit photo shoot today with my shitty little digital camera. Turned out pretty cool:

http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...ayvegas011.jpg

http://i721.photobucket.com/albums/w...ayvegas010.jpg

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https://i721.photobucket.com/albums/...ayvegas018.jpg

https://i721.photobucket.com/albums/...ayvegas020.jpg

https://i721.photobucket.com/albums/...ayvegas016.jpg

https://i721.photobucket.com/albums/...ayvegas006.jpg
...love my tweaked fender line :(

https://i721.photobucket.com/albums/...-04_224347.jpg

You need to wash that thing, its filthy.

for shizzle

Figured I would update:
Nothing too new....upgraded rocker arm trunions with comp cam unit, fabricated some new radiator ducting, added some hood struts and had it aligned.
The car is running fantastic and is still just a huge blast to drive given it has been a year and a half since the swap was completed.
Procharger in the future :)

Here are some pics from early spring

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Liking the s4 stock trim. keep up good work

Hi all! Just thought I would check in. Things are well and looks like things are busy here. Went for a little photo shoot with my new Nikon last month and figured I would share here too.



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You all enjoy the summer and drive the wheels off your 7's

Still looking great! :icon_tup:

Car looks great! Glad you decided not to get rid of it after all the problems you had with the rotary.

thank you! I just couldnt let the chassis go with everything I had put into it. Enjoyed the rotary but I Enjoy the new power plant just as much.

Great read! Beautiful car, makes me miss my old car

I just got done looking at all of your photos on your wall and I have to say. WOW!! You have done a superb job on restoring and going far beyond bringing you FC back to life. Awesome job man!!

Thank you for the kind words!

I appreciate the compliment bud, it has been a "fun" challenge. After all it is the journey that makes it enjoyable.

UPDATE:

This is a little late but I figured I would let all you know as well. Back in September I did a cylinder head upgrade. I went with Advanced Inductions High Compression Ratio (11:1) 219cc Full CNC Porting Package on my OEM 241 heads.

All the details on them are here: Advanced Induction - 219 cc GM 5.7L LS1 Head Package

I also ended up upgrading my injectors to Bosch 30lb'ers(more on these later ) and installing ARP head bolts. Some tear down pics:

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Some of the porting:

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Chamber design (AI's pic obviously but looked identical):

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All back together and you would never even know I did a head upgrade...except for the black ARP head bolts :)


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After the start up with no leaks and everything checking out good, I trailered it out to Spokane to the same exact dyno I used back in 2011 and ended up putting down 476 rwhp and 430 rwtrq. Nice improvement from my 425hp/417 trq last time I dynoed. Dyno Sheet: Attachment 649832

Here is the video:
SOOOOOOO I get back home and didnt get to drive it for almost a month. Once I drove it around my local roads I was having some major fuel tip-in issues that were annoying the crap out of me. After some back and forth talk between my tuner in Spokane and Steve Williams out in Virgina, we came to the conclusion I had shitty injectors and discovered that I was sold chinese knock-off Ford 30lb injectors. BEWARE of TRE Performance, they are crooks!

Anyway, I ended up getting som F.A.S.T 36lb'ers BUT the problem with the injector swap was my previous tune was inaccurate now due to the injector settings being different. So I ended up just buying HP Tuners and started re-tuning it myself. Once I researched and learned how the GM system works and actually got to perform steady state tuning locally on a SUN diagnostic dyno (old school but fine for tuning up to 4000 rpm), I was amazed how much room for imporvement my "tune" had, especially the MAF curve and the speed density table

I got majority of my MAF and SD tune dialed to the appropriate AFR's in back in OCT of 2013. I was able to get some WOT tuning done but winter moved in before I could dial it in perfect. Come this spring I need to do some more WOT tuning and get it completely linear at a safe 12.5:1 AFR ( it was at 11.7:1 afr intially when I started WOT in OCT:icon_tdow)

Once I get that dialed in, I will head back out to spokane JUST to use the same dyno and see how much more power I picked up with my adjustments (my butt dyno back it October indicated a power increase, especially when dialing in my AFR from pig pig rich).

As for this winter I have been restoring some odds and ends in the interior, like plastics and exterior trims (expensive stuff brand new :()

Stay tune for more.

nice ride. you a photographer?

Thanks man. I am not a photographer, just own a decent Nikkon camera and I guess have a niche for it.

Nice update dude. Car sounds like it runs really smooth for a 500hp beast. Not too lumpy.

I love the blue!
The car is beautiful and looks like a blast! Think you'll be over 500whp with the legit injectors and new tune?

Awesome man!! :icon_tup: Your fc looks excellent and sounds awesome with the boinger :nod:. Next some street video????? ;)

Thank buddy! Yeah my cam is generally mild and I kept a 114LSA for idle reasons. I have dialed in my SD & MAF fuel trims very close now that at idle is has a great lobe from the exhaust, I will post vids of it this spring.

I am digging your FC development racing page btw :icon_tup: Your diff mount is genius!! (Us V8 guys who retain the mazda rear end would love to purchase that:nod:)

Thank you for the compliment!

I may pick up another 8-14 rwhp maybe and as for being over the 500rwhp mark, I highly doubt that. The dyno I used both times was a Dynocom and they are known for being very generous. Most LS1 swaps running my engine set up put out about 445-455 rwhp on mustang dynos. If I ever get to the 1/4 mile track, my ET will give me an honest number on my power output granted I can launch quick enough.

I only used the same exact dyno as a tool to see my power gain from my head upgrade.

Thank you and yes I will put up some street video :egrin:

Awesome! I am sure there will be many clouds of smoke :nod:.

Still want ride........