hey guys, thought i would join up and tell u a little bit about our little conversion we have just completed stage 1 of the build. the car is owned by my brother it's a 1970 Ford Capri with a 4L 1UZ, twin Garrett GT35/40 .70 Compressor . 6 Exhaust turbo's, Ross Pistons, Argo rods, we run a custom plenum with the factory lower manifold (even after we were told it would never work) EMS 8860 ECU, custom Tighe cams, factory heads, block and crank, 2-Speed Powerglide, Dellow Bellhousing with a 8'' Neal Chance converter. the car weighs 3100lbs, this is a true street/strip car. the car is driven to the track we change from street tyres to slicks, change the plugs and take the exhaust off after we are done exhaust and street tyres go back on and we drive it home 
the engine was built by Greg 'GOMAC' McDonald, 10 years ago one of Greg's supercharged engines was making over 900hp@20psi, the heads on that engine flowed inexcess of 330cfm our current heads are a very mild port job with standard valves making around 290cfm. All the fabrication work was done by Jake Bain from Bain Racing, the car was a bit of a rustbucket when we got it but Mario Teuma from A.C Tree Services did all the chassis work and helped with the chassis tuning and suspension setup at the track, yep that's right a tree lopper
we run in APSA Mod Street Blown class here in Australia so what we can do to the car is pretty limited we run the factory style leaf spring suspension. Vince Rigoli from V & E Rigoli Racing tuned the car on E85 it makes 800+rwhp@26psi 750+ft-lbs of torque best 1/4 mile time of 8.46@162 with exhaust on and 8.34@164mph when it's off. Pump gas it makes 675rwhp and 680ft-lbs of torque best 1/4 is 9.02@151mph that was with the old Hoosier tyres and before Mario helped with the setup, we believe it would go 1/10th quicker now as the car 60's much better the best being a 1.291 60'
it is a pretty tight fit in the engine bay
pump gas dyno graph, shows pickup from old converter to new Neal chance converter
15-minute drive out to the track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYGCT4Np6ag
tuning the car on E85, exhaust is on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMGFzT1cISM
first time out to the track after the E85 tune, Mario helping with setting the car up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CGVBrZwYH4
exhaust is now off and ran a PB of 8.34@164
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7_xm6SmzVs
as i said this is just stage one, we have a few goodies yet to do for stage 2. we tried lightening the car by putting a fibreglass boot and bonnet on and all she wanted to do was this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5BJSvt6Ds
1st pass 8.4 we took it easy just to qualify, the track wasn't holding up either if it didn't lift it spun the tyres at the start. we only run a 28x10.5'' slick so it's hard taking off too quick.
ultimately the car needs to be lighter taking the bonnet and boot out saved us about 50lbs but affected the cars balance too much so we are going to get Mario to fab up a set of wheelie bars for us which will be removable so we can still drive it on the street. also limiting us is the turbo's, the rear housing is choking us from making more power so we are removing them and putting bigger 0.81 or 1.06 rears on it, also a brand spanking new EMS CDI is on the way, we need a nice big spark to help burn all that extra E85, by mid next year we are hoping to have the car all setup and running a 7-second pass @ 170+mph.
Paulie
the engine was built by Greg 'GOMAC' McDonald, 10 years ago one of Greg's supercharged engines was making over 900hp@20psi, the heads on that engine flowed inexcess of 330cfm our current heads are a very mild port job with standard valves making around 290cfm. All the fabrication work was done by Jake Bain from Bain Racing, the car was a bit of a rustbucket when we got it but Mario Teuma from A.C Tree Services did all the chassis work and helped with the chassis tuning and suspension setup at the track, yep that's right a tree lopper
we run in APSA Mod Street Blown class here in Australia so what we can do to the car is pretty limited we run the factory style leaf spring suspension. Vince Rigoli from V & E Rigoli Racing tuned the car on E85 it makes 800+rwhp@26psi 750+ft-lbs of torque best 1/4 mile time of 8.46@162 with exhaust on and 8.34@164mph when it's off. Pump gas it makes 675rwhp and 680ft-lbs of torque best 1/4 is 9.02@151mph that was with the old Hoosier tyres and before Mario helped with the setup, we believe it would go 1/10th quicker now as the car 60's much better the best being a 1.291 60'it is a pretty tight fit in the engine bay
pump gas dyno graph, shows pickup from old converter to new Neal chance converter
15-minute drive out to the track
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYGCT4Np6ag
tuning the car on E85, exhaust is on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMGFzT1cISM
first time out to the track after the E85 tune, Mario helping with setting the car up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CGVBrZwYH4
exhaust is now off and ran a PB of 8.34@164
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7_xm6SmzVs
as i said this is just stage one, we have a few goodies yet to do for stage 2. we tried lightening the car by putting a fibreglass boot and bonnet on and all she wanted to do was this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK5BJSvt6Ds
1st pass 8.4 we took it easy just to qualify, the track wasn't holding up either if it didn't lift it spun the tyres at the start. we only run a 28x10.5'' slick so it's hard taking off too quick.
ultimately the car needs to be lighter taking the bonnet and boot out saved us about 50lbs but affected the cars balance too much so we are going to get Mario to fab up a set of wheelie bars for us which will be removable so we can still drive it on the street. also limiting us is the turbo's, the rear housing is choking us from making more power so we are removing them and putting bigger 0.81 or 1.06 rears on it, also a brand spanking new EMS CDI is on the way, we need a nice big spark to help burn all that extra E85, by mid next year we are hoping to have the car all setup and running a 7-second pass @ 170+mph.
Paulie
very impressive :biggthumpup:
