pics of blowdown, hood pins and more!

[04snake]

That and how about some nighttime gauges pics!!

The ones I took with the rocker switches all lit for "CC ARM" "IC PUMP" "NOS HEAT" "NOS ARM" were still screwed up? I give up, you can get a good idea with these pics and eventually you will see them all along with my LM-1, air duct shift light and center purge in movies I make from the car this coming season..






The trunk is finished, I had to run down a couple of the fasteners I bagged up & then promptly lost, but I found everything and after a good vacuming, it will be ready for the track in April!






More trunk/Battery Box/Bottle plumbing shots.. Everything is threaded up thru grommeted holes and the Ol' money pit has quite a few holes in it now!













No store bought solution for the rear seat delete. A piece of cardboard became the jig, then a circular saw and a few hacks later the carpet from Lou at Laurel Mt. Mustang sent me perfectly matched the OEM carpets that were re-installed minus the sound insulation. I kinda like the looks of the rolled Aluminum firewall, no way I was covering that up!






The hood pins were adjusted with welded nuts to the exact perfect height so considerable force has to be pressed close to the pins so they can slide out. You might think they are WAY too tight if you didn't realize how flexible the fiberglass hood is! I didn't attch the plastic covered retension wires, they are more for keeping you from loosing the pins, than a safety measure and the OEM latch assembly has removed to save weight.






I no longer thread the lead for the LM-1 up thru the shifter boot, it now has it's own grommeted hole into the passenger foot well area. A custom mount for the LM-1 is in the planning! Also pictured is the connection for the SCT old school Raptor datalogger. On the street I will have my custom Flame etched fire extinquisher, but unless it is permently attached as part of a fire retardant system, it is not NHRA legal, so I will pull it out for race days.

[MMGT1]

Is that a nitrous-fed turbo?? Wow, I'd love to give that thing a go down the track...
Anyway, the work you've done looks really nice. Like the gage package, I would love to see it's numbers when you run it! I just put a 125 shot into my friends Mustang(a 89LX 5.0 done to the teeth,and still street-able) for him and we can't wait for the track to open! Lots of snow up here! Have fun with that one man, and keep the shiny side up!

[04snake]

Is that a nitrous-fed turbo?? Wow, I'd love to give that thing a go down the track...
Anyway, the work you've done looks really nice. Like the gage package, I would love to see it's numbers when you run it! I just put a 125 shot into my friends Mustang(a 89LX 5.0 done to the teeth,and still street-able) for him and we can't wait for the track to open! Lots of snow up here! Have fun with that one man, and keep the shiny side up!

Blower fed with NOS. The blower has been ported and is being overspun by over 50% so instead of 10psi, I will see 16.5psi even with long tubes (you will see less boost with less restriction, but more HP). I am using the dry shot of NOS almost as a menthol mouthwash to cool some of the downstream intake air temps. You can use a couple of tricks to do that, but NOS will add HP as well as finding hidden HP by lower temps.

Don't do this at home boys and girls unless you are willing to accept the responsibilities of the consequences. A tune will have to be developed and loaded for when I spray because the NOS is be sprayed directly into the blower to increase the strength of the hit and cooling effect but that also is the same as adding un-metered air the MAF can't see and the Fords rely on the MAF. One of the reasons I will be very precise in the NOS pressure so once I develop a tune that hits the correct AFR, it will be reproducible. If I change the window in which I spray from lets say 3400-6200 to maybe 3200-6600 I will need to develop a new tune as well. Not to worry I like the challenge but nothing I would have been to prepared to deal with the first year I was tuning the car all by myself.