phunk's Whipple GT

[Super Werty]

Phunk... Did your car hold up at the e85 power levels? Or did the opg fail? Curious if that's why you're parting out the car?

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[phunk]

Phunk... Did your car hold up at the e85 power levels? Or did the opg fail? Curious if that's why you're parting out the car?

Holding up great so far. No problems no failures unless you count my original 6-rib belt, with around 12,000 miles on it, that finally snapped about 2 weeks ago. Towing the car home at 4am on a sunday wasnt fun, but at least it was only a 15 minute fix when I got it back here.

stock OPG, stock timing gear, stock damper.

 

[daltron]

You selling the fuel system?

 

[phunk]

You selling the fuel system?

I will eventually. But for now I am keeping the car in its driving & tuned state. Until I have sold the suspension upgrades and got the suspension all back to stock, I probably wont touch any of the rest of it.

 

[Stage_3]

Good luck going forward [MENTION=13099]phunk[/MENTION].

 

[phunk]

Curious if that's why you're parting out the car?

Reason for possibly moving on is only for more grip. I mentioned a GT-R earlier... They are not my car of choice, with the one exception being their drivetrain that raises the usable street trim power levels. Id like to have a 900-1000whp car that can put it to the ground and make a relatively clean pull from a dig, on the street, with zero prep, on tires and suspension that still provide confident and stable handling at speeds over 100mph.

Thats it. Otherwise I would rather just keep the Mustang.

 

[z06psi]

Reason for possibly moving on is only for more grip. I mentioned a GT-R earlier... They are not my car of choice, with the one exception being their drivetrain that raises the usable street trim power levels. Id like to have a 900-1000whp car that can put it to the ground and make a relatively clean pull from a dig, on the street, with zero prep, on tires and suspension that still provide confident and stable handling at speeds over 100mph.

Thats it. Otherwise I would rather just keep the Mustang.

Promod then.

 

[mustang_guy]

Reason for possibly moving on is only for more grip. I mentioned a GT-R earlier... They are not my car of choice, with the one exception being their drivetrain that raises the usable street trim power levels. Id like to have a 900-1000whp car that can put it to the ground and make a relatively clean pull from a dig, on the street, with zero prep, on tires and suspension that still provide confident and stable handling at speeds over 100mph.

Thats it. Otherwise I would rather just keep the Mustang.

Won't happen unless you run slicks. My dd 700+whp sti on a 6766 cant even do it on lower power on street tires. Its a smoke show on summers. My buddies gtr cant hook great from a dig either with that kind of power your wanting. Rwd when set up for dig racing on the street with the proper tires can hook. It just takes trial and error with dialing it in. Ive seen proper set up rwd cars destroy gtrs from digs on the street and track. Awd is not the universal answer people hope for.

 

[phunk]

For sure, its a tall order!

But its ok if it doesn't 100% hook from a dig. It will still do a lot better. Its all just relative.

I am looking get the best grip that I can get, without drag shocks, without drag tires, without drag alignment, without prepping the surface, without burning out. I have driven GT-Rs, and the available grip in 100% street trim, blows my Mustang out of the water. To get my Mustang to hook how I want it to hook, would mean making other sacrifices I don't want to make.

What I am not looking for is the proper RWD setup that destroys GT-Rs. I am looking for a proper 100% (real) street trim setup that destroys my Mustang.

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