A week after I bought the car my best friend Darcy and I where ripping it apart to fix a few problems and I just could not put it back together without some tweaking. Here is a list of what has been done to the car so far.
Bored 20 over (excessive wear) Mild port on the head, with back cut and 3 angle valve job Very mild clean up on the intake and exhaust manifolds 3" Turbos Unleashed swing valve 3" AL mandrel bend exhaust from FWD Performance Hooker muffler Underdrive pulley, I shaved the AC part off for 10$ since I will never need it. Of course the may limit my ability to sell it down the road if I ever want to. G-Valve @ 12psi of boost Stock SMEC Relentless Stage 3 Cal89 Shelby 11" brakes Front tower strut bar Quickor sway bar & control arm bushings, front engine mount and bobble strut (Quickor is now out of business. Johnny Shiva started
his own company PolyBushings)180F thermostat with the small hole drilled in it 4 wire O2 sensor K&N Cone Filter Amsoil drop in filterSonic spark plugs Trasko oil filter Magnecor 8mm wires Cruise control Rear wiper Power windows (these where a pain because the wiring had to be swapped out) Power locks Power heated mirrors Lighted visor mirrors 89 fog light switch (have the 89 Shelby GFX and spoiler just have not put them on yet) 12 button navigator Clear tail lights Rear hatch cover (from my Laser) New speakers and stereo With rebuild 2 completed finally during the second week of December 2003 these other modifications have been done.
Wiesco forged pistons Ported exhaust manifold, by me Braided Turbo lines from Turbo Nation Limited slip insert from Alabama Man Racing Innovations Moly tranny end plate from FWD Performance Drain plug for the tranny Put the Quickor bobble strut in ALL New blue silicone vacuum hoses with an AL air manifold Recored radiator January 2004
- Autometer 30/30 Vacuum/Boost gauge (install page coming)
- Dawes Device A/F meter
(install page coming)Febuary 2004
March 2004
- Picked up an OTC 4000E scanner. I wrote a datalogging program from my laptop to continous data capture from the scanner. Email me if you are interested.
- 255 L/Hr Walbro fuel pump
April 2004
- Removed the PCV system and put in a long hose that hangs at back of the k-frame. In cold climates watch for ICE blocking the end.
June 2004
- Tinted the back three windows with the help of a friend (Alex). Actually I helped him. :) I had the front two done in a light tint, by a shop. The first 3 where just too much fun!
- Fixed up some rust behind the passenger strut tower and wheel weel that went into the fire wall behind the heater core assembly. Coated it with POR-15 and plan to coat the whole bottom of the car with it.
July 2004
- 40+ injectors and a Jame Richardson's AFPR (April 2005 put the stock injectors back in.)
August 2004
- My rear brakes had bad grooves worn into the caliper bracket where the pads sit. Darcy welded them up for me and I ground them to the proper shape. No more brake rattle!!
December 2004
One piece gasket Valve cover. An excellent upgrade! New crane coil with 3" coil wire to the cap. January 2005
- Removed the vacuum lines to the charcol canister
- Relentless Racing adjustable cam gear
February 2005
CompuStar alarm and keyless entry K&N Cone filter 89 Stock Short Shifter Vacuum lines cleaned up more. Removed vacuum distributor block. March 2005
Extra crank case beather tube (I removed this in April when I put the evac on) April 2005
Crank case evacution system (Pictures coming.) Stock injectors put back in 2.4L Lifters with air bleed Yoko Avid V4s (pictures coming) Water vapor system May 2005
Shelby Oil Cap July 2005
- 89 Dual pivot control arms and k-frame
- New rack; Looks like it is the wrong one as now my driver wheel hits the plastic piece in the fender.
September 2005
- Installed the rear custom MIRacing lower springs with new upper and lower isolators
October 2005
- New adjustable Koni struts, upper isolator, strut bearing mount, and a set of custom MIRacing lowering springs with progressive spring rates of
300 lbs/inch for the front and 320 lbs/inch for the backbackNovember 2005
July 2006
- EGT gauge/probe - Pic2, Pic 3
- Had the complete top end cryoed. The head, intake, exhaust mani, turbo, all the bolts etc. everything.
- Rebuilt Ported head by mpgmike. Back cut 3 angle valves, conical springs with 30 thou shims, 2 Singh'g grooves per chamber, grooved intake runners aka power lynz, heat coated exhaust runners and chamber, #4 coolant mod (old pic - has changed). Flow numbers here.
- Intake manifold was powder coated and opened up for a larger thottle body in the future.
- Exhaust manifold was heat coated inside and out, and tapped for an EGT probe, which was plugged and moved closer to the head..
August 2006
- More in depth custom cal. Fuel tables adjusted. Fuel turned off on deaccel, PT table adjust for g-valve and other mods
December 2006
- Metric Mechanic Surface Turbulence Valves
- Elford Motor Sports Log Header with inside and outside heat coating
- Home built turbo with a .63 exhaust housing with heat coating inside and outside, 1987 GN housing and compressor wheel , which should be a S70
- Spare head back on, self modified CC with Singh Grooves and Allpar's dana44 edging. (The other one had a crack in the CC), used all the same hardware from the built up head.
- Shifter cable with new rubber bellows from an Eagle
Not too sure what the next modifications planned will be. I am think of a new casting done all up for April and a 555/520 hybrid tranny with AL flywheel.
As I find time I will add information and pictures on the various additions and mods I did to the car.
