burnouts!

my friend johnny driving the re-powered fairmont

some photos from the dyno and the runs

Pre Dyno Video

Dyno runs video

yellow car shakedown on the dyno

threw the yellow car on today and had some trouble, but its the first time it has been out of the garage period so it did great temperature wise, i believe i have a bad coil or bad plug, or more than one. going to get that sorted out and get back on the rollers

running and making boost!

got the exhaust done the other day, and finished the intercooler piping today after my friend did some aluminum welding for me. so i fired it and decided to roll into it a little for your enjoyment, and get some idle clips

two updates in this post

made a quick update video, and then got my shit together and fired the car for fun

both cars update video

fairmont 3 fired up for the first time

worked on the yellow car today

dipstick in, connected the wiring to everything i could, bolted up the hotside and s476r turbo! that shit looks amazing in there. put a new sticker on the back instead of the white one, a black LSX sticker

she is coming together fast.

time for the 5.3 to go together

today we made some room, pushed the cars back, had to replace the caster wheel on the engine hoist, then we moved the painted 5.3, installed valvesprings, studded the motor, removing one head bolt at a time then installing the studs, once the studs and springs were installed we did the cam. This time after pulling the balancer i used a LS7 crank bolt wich is longer than a truck bolt, pulled the balancer right on no problem then you finish with the truck bolt, man this worked so well i dont know why i have never done it, like it was meant to do it, crazy how i have never heard of it till my friend john said something about it, thats the way he does it.

either way the motor is back in the yellow car already with the reiners engine mounts ready for the turbo kit tomorrow.

fairmont 3 and 4 updates (video uploading now, will post when ready!)

3.0 waiting on head studs and springs, then going back in the yellow car, black and grey car already has old 4.8 and turbo kit installed and ready to rock, waiting on sumped stock tank, and we are going to put the 60e yolk on the stock drive shaft and use the stock rear for fun, here is how they both sit for now

fairmont 3 and 4 switcherooo

Due to rediculous import fees, i will not be selling the 3.0 car to my mexican friend, he has estimates over 3300 dollars so far in import fees and taxes etc, Honestly i just feel bad sticking him with that kinda bill, and i like the car, so i will keep it for now, what i am going to do now is, pull the weak point out of it wich is the gen3 4.8 and smaller turbo, and install the 5.3 i have and the better turbo and hotside and go nuts.

the black car is getting the 4.8 and a ls1 cam i have laying around and we will see how that does with the 60e, stock driveshaft and 7.5 rear end.

so that is the new experiment, saturday corey and i pulled the 4.8, removed the cam, and installed the ls1 cam, and installed it all back into the black car, going to be studding, and installing the isky cam, and then pac1218 valvesprings into the yellow car with the 2005 5.3l motor and the reiners hotside and s476 billet turbo.

should be nuts! this is the best choice i think because this yellow car has the fuel system, rear, trans, and converter to go nuts already.

update and cold start for fun

fairmont 3 and 4 updates

had out fairmont 3.0 today for some line painting

4l80e forcing third gear mod at the track (sloppy trans brake)

well it works! i am happy to report it works really really well haha
the track was just not there tonight, non prepped friday night, couldn't hold anything.

here is a clip of a data log showing i could hit 4600rpm and 15psi at the line!

long video of the night

short video of just the lass pass and 3rd gear mod working

launching tricks and street slicks!

got my mickey Thompson drag radials today!

and i think i got this force to 3rd gear mod working awesome
i can brake stand 3800 without spinning the street tires on the smooth concrete in my garage, didnt try for more yet but that should help leave at the track hahah

i can flip a switch while staging to put the car into 3rd gear, so i can get the converter much higher, and hopefully launch harder when i flip the switch and it goes back into first

took the fairmont to island yesterday for some interesting passes haha

photo summary

First shakedown pass, brakes at the 8th mile

Throttle sticking against a fast comet!

10.72 full pass

useless things for the interior

put the boost gauge and stereo from my truck in my fairmont today, so i would have some things to mess with and watch while drive haha

isky cam track pass 10.74 @ 135

well corey and i loaded up the car, drove 1.5 hours down to Etown raceway, tech'd in and we lined up to race, i drove the car this time, it started to drizzle so i figured whatever happens ill just stay in it to get the mph.

first pass i didnt brake stand enough but it is my first pass in the car haha, it went 10.74 @ 135mph, we dont have any other instrumentals because they were pissed i went that fast and refused to give me a time slip. we think it was a 1.8x you can see how soft it was.

other than that awesome that the car picked up an easy 9mph in the 1/4 with just the cam swap.
crazy

here is video corey shot with his cell phone, best i can do.

cam and another turbo truck

short story is, my friend got a truck, and i told him i would turbo it for him no problem haha so that is getting worked on, and i also got the cam for my fairmont and installed that