post pics of your other toys and interests

[NTM]

Well here is my other expensive hobby.

Another mullet head !

My black hole money pit, 642 rwhp.
RC boats and helis are cheap compared to cars.

[obrien]

thats a very nice looking LT1!

Now you can't leave out the juicy info

[crazzy maxx]

very nice

[domwilson]

Oh the memories! I can still remember the sweet smell of blow-by gases from a freshly built, high compression engine. At least until the rings fully seated.

[Avanti]

force fed huh........ you have obrien creaming now

[NTM]

The car was kind of an outlet for my negative energy that resulted from a rough patch in my life. I built the car over the winter, a few years ago, in my garage. The engine machining work was the only thing that was farmed out, I handled the rest of the assembly and fabrication.

It's a forged 355 with heavily ported afr heads, ATI D1 blower head unit with a 12 rib drive, custom intercooler (I chopped the front end of the car off to fit that thing !), custom piping.
The blower dumps air out the 2" flange that you can see on the drivers side front fender, from a greddy 2" blow off valve.
A 90 shot of nitrous is on tap from the wet kit.

Exhaust consists of long tube 1 7/8" primary headers to a custom 4" exhaust.

The fuel system consists of twin in-tank walbro 255 pumps, 65lbs/hr injectors, and tunercat to reflash the stock pcm and datalog. An Innovate wideband is also hooked up to the datalogger.

Koni dampers, strano springs, bmr control arms+a arms, poly bushings, etc.
It was set up more for open track (road course) days than drag racing .

To that end the drive train isn't what you'd expect, the rear is still a ten bolt (beefed up as much as possible, strange axles etc.) running a torsen t2r differential. The differential is darn near magical on a road course, and only made for the ten bolt. 3.73 gears, you have to shift to fifth in the quarter mile, but nicer for road course stuff.
Carbon driveshaft.
The clutch is a spec stage 4 ceramic and has held up very well.
The 6 speed t-56 is stock and performing well.
Tires are nitto r2 305/35/18's out back and 285/35/18's in the front, r compound so they only last a couple thousand miles, they hook really well for a stiff side wall tire though.

The car is kind of stripped, the carpet and plastic panels are still there, but there's nothing underneath. I tossed the a/c, air bags, rear seats, carpet underlay, sound deadening, horns, windshield wipers, all unnessecary wiring, etc.

The result is a car that weighs 3100 pounds ready to race with driver, comparable cars are usually well above 3600 pounds. The interior still looks like this though, other than the stereo, that was removed after this picture (dead weight !):


Here's a pic from the track, I entered it in the outlaw class of a major sport compact car meet, I had some good laughs that day !
Didn't even bolt on the et streets, just ran it on the nitto r2's.
They didn't invite me back the following year :D



It's been fun, but quite a money sponge

Regards,
Nathan

[obrien]

lol I can't imagine why they wouldn't invite you back.

What were you able to muster in the 1/4 with that setup? I would have to think you were close to the 10s

[NTM]

11.2 @ 139mph, 1.86 60 foot, shifting to fifth wastes alot of time and it was hunting for traction the whole way down the track. It's just not a very good drag car.
It's an ihra track, so anything trapping over 135 mph has to be nine second certified, chute, halon, full nomex, etc.
I'm officially banned this year !
I managed to sneak back a few times last year, but they're putting their foot down.
Strange that tech is much more relaxed for road courses, when it seems more dangerous ?
All I do for those is bolt in the wolfe 6 point and change brake pads.
The instructors that came along for my first few lapping days at the road course darn near started crying on the front and back straights, lol.
The brakes were upgraded to c5 calipers after that first day too. The ls1 calipers I had on the front were actually spread open !

Here's pics of some other toys and interests:






Regards,
Nathan

[Eodman]

That is pretty!

Back in the 70's when I got out of the Marine Corps the first time, I bought a Chevelle from "Baldwin Motion " out on Long island! SS 396 425 HP so the papers said!

Ran it a couple times at Englishtown mid to high 13's then I got in to english cars!

Memories are still pretty vivid for an old fart!

[obrien]

Too bad you don't still have that car. It would be worth a pretty good amount today.

[FE_Chris]

Wow you guys have some nice trucks......

Avanti...I did'nt think the lightning was made to tow all that weight? expecially with a blower? Just curious cause that HAS to look bad ass on the way to the lake.

I wanted one when I purchased my mustang GT, but I did'nt wanna have to feed that dam 5.4l. My GT gets 20-23MPG city/hwy!!!! :-)

nice cars guys(and trucks)....I like cars!!!!!!(and trucks)

[Avanti]

fe_chris --- the Lightning http://www.svt.ford.com/flash/index.html

Payload: 1350 lbs. (612 kg)
Towing Capacity: 5,000 lbs. (2,270 kg)

[FE_Chris]

That boat weighs less than 5k?

PS - The link does'nt work.

[Avanti]

the boat is right at 5k

the link works on my MAC

google: svt 2003

it is the top link

[obrien]

The other day, Avanti had is work trailer behind the Lightning and decided to have a little race with our buddy in his 02 mustang GT. Needless to say it was pretty sad when the truck could keep up with the stang towing a loaded trailer.