post pics of your other toys and interests

[obrien]

Well here is my other expensive hobby.

[obrien]

Even thought this is the kind of work I do, I still have fun with this stuff as well.
This boat is a 36' Spectre Catamaran with a pair of 625 hp Illmore Viper v10 engines. that runs in th e low 120 mph range. Now I don't get to do many boats like this anymore, but these were my favorites.

[obrien]

my rig 1998 27' Avanti offshore built in NJ twin 250hp merc efi
2003 FORD Lightning just your basic 12 second work truck

Hey moe, there is something missing in that pic. I wonder if anyone can figure it out? Actually there are a couple of things missing. lol

[Avanti]

nah, them are the new wish drives...... they run on hopes and dreams everyone is switching to them for 08

[Diegoboy]

Is it the lower end of the 2 motors?

[obrien]

lol

nice eye diego!

[domwilson]

It was either that or two hot babes...

[domwilson]

Obrien, What are you running in the quarter? It looks like it's on the bottle.

[crazzy maxx]

forgot to post pics of the boat

[Ron B]

Hey guys, new to this site but not R/C . Heres my last boat I built.

[obrien]

Obrien, What are you running in the quarter? It looks like it's on the bottle.

So far my best is 11.08 @ 128 with a 1.67 60' spinning.
that was on 27" et streets.

Full weight street setup on nittos the car has run 11.88 @ 119 n/a and 11.53 @ 124 on the bottle hitting the limiter. The nittos aren't quite tall enough.

I made some changes and tried a set of 28" et drags only to break the 12 bolt moser 3 times.

So as of right now the car hasn't quite hit the 10s.

Here is a vid. I was doing 5500 rpm clutch dumps. Man is it fun when it holds. lol
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/d...2d138f44bb.htm

[domwilson]

That's cool! Reminds me of my younger days. But here in Calif. the city ordinances/smog laws have choked this sport. Made it hard to own a "Hot Rod."

[obrien]

Yeah, my car would not be welcome in the state of cali. With my exhaust setup and cam, there is no way it would pass any smog testing.

I would also have to say the Avanti's truck at one point was capable of running 11's, he just never had a chance to find out.

[Avanti]

yeah should have been good for 11.20s on the bottle
only runs mid 12s now (it's slow)

[domwilson]

It's an expensive hobby/sport. But the satifaction is immeasurable!

[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.