Great addition and documentation of the swap, it has definitely peeked my interest. I wonder what the availability of the throttle body is going to be. Also interested in any gains after the revisions.
[MENTION=15682]sandeale[/MENTION]Are you planning crank sprocket and oil pump gears to take it to 8000 rpm? I am interested in the power curve after 7500. I may end up going the NA route instead of putting a whipple on my car.
The trigger wont be necessary for the higher rpm, but I do plan on upgrading the oil pump and crank gear later on when I get ready for a cam swap, also going to look into an aftermarket balancer.
The big question I'm waiting to see get answered is are Oil pump gears necessary on a N/A set-up, because a majority of the failures are the result of high rpm with additional drag on the crank from a blower of any sort, I think the extra load placed out near the end of the crankshaft is what's causing these gear failures, the terminator community was fine with the o.e. blower but add a larger blower and the oil pump gears would fail. We have the same gears as the Boss if I'm not mistaken, and how many of them have had failures on N/A applications?
This is great news. Thanks again Sandeale for doing this ! I love rpm and I'll be going this route for sure.
What i would like to know is does anyone have specs or info on the valve springs ? I believe I read they were upgraded over the 14s? I'd like to know more about wether they are ok to spin occasionally to 7-8k rpm?
im honestly surprised that the Numbers were right on top of the old and there was no loss at all, and continued to climb all the way. Imo I'm fairly certain ford will go this route next update. I think they capped it off at the stock limiter to let the gt350 have the spotlight with its 8250 rpm redline.
How's the overall DRIVEABILITY of the car? Any bucking or any other ill manners going on when just driving the car??? Start up, hanging throttle between shifts? Anything???
The driveability for the most part is good, lund and i are still going over datalogs to get this spot on for his repository...other than some minute part throttle surge below 3k everywhere else is spot on
Ya, would have been nice to see that dyno go to 7800 or so. To see if there is any additional power up top, if power will start to drop slightly or if it holds steady until the rev limiter. Hopefully you can get that high when you dyno it again for the next baseline before the headers. With these logs to Lund and the tune dialed in. Seems to be a very promising intake for sure.
What are you going to do with the stock intake ? I'm tempted to offer to buy it so I can cut it open lol. Any chance you can put lighting in the runners or fb and try and get some pictures of inside ? Curious to know what they're like inside
Theres one e85 station down in lumberton, and another up in erwin (supposedly) but ill have to wait for injectors to run it. As far as 7800 the car is still pulling and the datalogs support the fact that its in fact still making power (no tapering off). But as soon as the revisions are done, ill schedule time to get back on the dyno, the endstate is to pull to 8k.
As far as inside pics are you referring to the oe intake or the gt350?
I'm curious if the stock pressure plate works ok at that elevated rpm level. There is some aftermarket pressure plates that have trouble not returning the clutch pedal off the floor at those revs.