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Thanks Dave. You guys have been a huge help throughout this process.

I haven't added it all up (not sure I want to :D), but it was really quite reasonable considering that's it's the first year of a new platform. Prices for blocks, cranks, etc, are available on ford parts websites. You can get a stock shortblock for around 1500 for example. Bare block around 700...

The log looked good right up until it went. The plugs from the other three cylinders looked good too. The problem is the hypereutectic pistons. They don't come apart slowly, they shatter all at once. Then the pieces fall into the blender. Forged pistons don't shatter and you'll still find some...

Thanks Adam. We tend to blow shit up good around here. :) Failures on the race cars are rare, but when they go, they go big. The guys doing the CSS work have done lots of these successfully. We'll see how this one holds up. I'm always down for more software tricks. :) This thing shifts so...

LSPI, as the name implies, applies to low engine speeds. Say, under 2500 rpm. Since we generally aren't looking for power that low, it's best to leave that part of all of the tables alone. Why a tuner would mess with things down there is beyond me. The same tables at WOT RPM however aren't...

First, a brief history on the car. Kait bought this thing in early summer. It's auto, premium, no PP. Stock my best was a 13.7 at ~101, Kait also went 13.7 but a touch quicker (wtf). With the Cobb tune it went 13.5 at 104. I got the software from Cobb and Kait got it down to 12.7 at 108, still...

Yup everything is in. I should make a thread at some point, I got some pictures of the process.

I didn't bother warrantying mine. For one, it was my own fault. Secondly, I would just break the new stock motor the next week at the track anyway. I built a motor for it instead. Now I can lean on that bitch all I want.

I broke mine. I was leaning on the boost down low trying to sneak up on the limit (famous last words :D) and found it. In hind sight, I put a Tial BOV on it and on the first test drive the boost spiked to 30 psi. It seemed to take it, so I left it there. That night at the track it was down 3...

That's a lot of tire. The gear is probably the right thing to do. :)

Oh yeah, for what it's worth our car has the 3.15 gears, which is the extreme opposite. It does make the car a bit lazy out of the hole, but Kait has still seen 1.7x 60 foots on stock tires. Killing some of the torque can help when traction limited as I mentioned earlier. As the car makes more...

Same here, those guys have been very helpful in our build.

I think the cup of water per pass was just the block squirming around, since filling it with no other changes stopped that. If it had been lifting, it would still have lifted after the fill. Either way, it was some type of commercial product made for this purpose. I believe there are two out...

I like the idea of closing the deck for the sake of improved head gasket sealing, if nothing else. When I did a full fill on my closed deck 4g63, head gasket sealing improved a lot. Unfilled a felpro MLS would push around a cup of water per pass at ~45 psi boost. I ran it that way for years...

Taking a quick ratio of tire rollout, 3.73s on 28s will bring you back to approximately 27" tire/3.55 gearing. To answer that part of the question at least. You generally want the lowest gearing that you can still hook up for the sake of acceleration and turbo spool in low gear. Finish line...

Old post, but compounds work the other way around. Small turbine gets exhaust first, large compressor gets inlet air first and feeds the small compressor. I feel like the stock turbo and engine bay layout is begging for compound turbos in this car. It's hard to resist the temptation. In short...

Safety first! But I can relate. Add fixed lexan windows turning the car into a green house. I'm certified to 7.50, sitting around in the car is not fun at all. Racing in 50 degree weather, the car is still too hot inside somehow. :D Great numbers BTW! Keep it coming. :)

MPG definitely comes up with mileage when cars are new. On my commute to the track at just over 1k miles, which is 75 miles of mixed driving, I can get 39-40 mpg. I'm a bit of a MPG fanatic though, "hypermiling" is a strange side hobby of mine. My 8500 lb dually gets a best 22 mpg on the same...

Totally agree. My Mitsubishi pick up truck with about 500 hp and a GM 3 speed auto is impossibly fun on the street. When you're not worrying about ending up upside down in a lake at least, it really is a menace even on slicks. But the torque converter makes sure RPM is always at least 5500 in...

The biggest concerns for performance with oil getting into the intake are generally the fact that it has an extremely low octane (doesn't take much to start knock) and it will coat the inside of the intercooler further reducing its efficiency (can be cleaned out occasionally with gasoline, other...