I finally have my true duals finished on my formula, I used Heddman S-bends, going into a a h-pipe, then 35" back, the 2.5" bullet mufflers, then some dumps, right before the sway bar, check it out.
Then I painted the rear axle, right now I'm still working on installing the rear Spohn Lower control arm relocators, then the Lakewood control arms. I'll put in a Lakewood panhard bar later.
The cars making so much torque right now, with the car up on the jackstands; while I am idling, with the brakes all the way to the floor, the rear tires are still spinning. I have to turn the service/parking brake on, then it barely stops them from spinning.
that car looks excellent! the exhaust is simple, much like a couple of my old systems, very clean my friend.
i will tell you, from past experience...the brake problem you're experiencing is not too much torque from the motor, but rather not enough brakes, lol! you need to find out what's going on there...whether it be a sticking caliper or some old brake hoses, or what have you...check into that further...you should be able to stop.
Well thats the thing, when I Had it down from the jackstands yesterday, it holds back like it usually would. The calipers are the borgwarners, for the 9-bolt, they were replaced just before I bought the car along with a lot of other parts, because of the foolish owners, lol.
The action of the calipers, are working properly, but it may also be because, the car hasn't been driven in 5 years, just once around the block about two months ago, and the rotors are pretty rusty, so that doesn't help. I just took a brake class in the srping, so I'll look at ig more, but on my cardomain site, I have new videos up, and it sounds great, theres still some oil from the cylinders burning off, but it rumbles, about 98-100 db's at idle.
But some of the paint is starting to bubble, from the bad primer and paint they used in the 80's, its a little on the roof and hood, but that hood will be replaced with another next year, with that 6 banger from a 84 firebird, and that scoop I'm showing on my site.
__________________ 89 formula 350, will be pushing 430 + on motor, World 200cc Sportsman II heads, I am putting it back to prove the stock stuff, like I did with my IROC-Z. Then Ported HSR, 3500 stall, tuning, .555/.576 lift 241*/247nasty ground 112 LSA+4* rollercam on the shelf for now, then $1500, NHRA safety mods and a 10 point cage later, she'll go into the 10's
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I also spoke to a tech guy from hooker, named Darrel cook, and he was great. I told him about my problem with my headers, now I've put 4 sets of headers on my firebird, but got 5 from summit and one from hooker; the quality is better now. I still had to do a little cleaning of the primary tubes with my die grinder and carbide cutting bit, where they come together and enter the collector. Right where they cut the tubes, there is some tubing that is still moving right into the flow of the exhaust tubing, so I cleaned it up. The gaskets they give with the headers are still only 1-9/16" of an inch, when your using 1-3/'4" primaried headers, its like tying to breath through a straw instead of your hand open wide. So I sent him pics and a copy of the december 2003 issue of car craft issue, of headers coating vs. painting. After he got the pics and what I explained to him, within two weeks I had my new headers and over this last week I was installing them, and now have them finished and just about everything under the hood, I'll post more pics later tonight of the finished look.
If anyone has problems with hooker headers, ask to speak with Darrel cook, he's the only helpful guy from holley and hooker, the other guys are dicks.
Make sure that if you buy the coated ones, you run them through at least 5 heating and cooling cycles at idle, no reving high, and cool off completely after each cycle, then the coating is supposed to last. And he said to keep the luster finish, to polish them down with mothers mag and rim polish.
I added some new pics of the new set of headers I got from hooker, and everythings basically finished under the hood, for now, lol. I have some views of under the car shots too, check 'em out.
I know the pics aint the best but I need to get it back to work after I do the timing chain so I can take the pic on a rack.. but I ran the pipes off the headers out to the sides into a pair of 32' glasspaacks and put the dumps right in front of the rear tires 008.JPG
