nice wish i had time to work on mine again....

you'll love that converter i got the 4c on my TA and love it

 

I hope I like the converter. Im unsure on how its gonna drive

 

recieved my stuff to make me a new cai. just a referance of how big a 4' pipe really is.

 

Is that Aluminum or stainless?

 

Aluminum. Ill have pics of my paintet car tomorrow

 

 

Lookin' good man!

 

Thanld. I made my new cold air today. Should get the converter installed next saturday and the nitrous kit sometime this week. got to put a full exhaust on a friends 97 cobra. Oh joy

 

circle d 4000 converter and nitrous outlet kit got installed this weekend thought the one pic was funny.

 

Ya, those things are freakishly huge. That converter at all of a pain to stoplight to stoplight with?(when your not stepping on it)

 

no clue. cant drive it yet. not tuned

 

started my transmission crossmember build yesterday. alot of hate here. you can see just how much i scrubbed.

subframe connectors came in also.

 

i like sport coupes more and more everyday, its gonna end up as my next third gen. haha

very nice build and ur car looks sick bro

 

Man, i hacked up the same x member, that spohn piece was a turd.

 

Thank you for the kind words. It makes me mad sometimes that it has to sit and not get driven. But oh well
Im thinking of buying the one from hawks third gen and just fabbing up a torque arm bracket. hmmmmm

 

If you find out how to do that to use the Spohn torque arm with the hawks cross member I will pay you to mod mine too. I'll go buy a hawks cross member and send it to you... Dead serious, this is my serious face

 

Will do. I hope it turns out how I have it planned.

 

Hawks double hump transmission crossmember has been ordered. When it arrives the plan goes into effect

 

So what are you considering the 'double hump crossmember'?

This one? http://www.hawksthirdgenparts.com/tr...66speed-1.aspx

 

Yes sir. Only thing Im unsure of is how much the 1/4 flat stock will hold.

 

I'm very interested to see what you come up with. I can see the passenger side being fairly easy but there has to be some reason no one has made a crossmember with this particular design yet.

 

Plans are to make a brace from the top of the driver side "hump" to the front of the driver side "leg" where to bolts to the car and another brace from the back of the "leg" to the lower side of the hump. It should hold up to the torque arm.

 

ok here are the plans. crossmember came in today and i want ALL OF YOUR OPINIONS/TIPS.


as you can see in the first photo the spohn torque arm mount fits pretty tight up in the tunnel. plans are to buy a u channel like the original and use one side for the right leg of the mount and the other side to be where the actual torque arm bolts to. and cutting off the left side of the u channel making it basically a 90 degree angle iron. BUT! another brace shall be welded from the rear of the transmission crossmember to the piece holding the torque arm mount to add support. the right side of the u channel gets welded to the trans crossmember and the flat part of the u channel gets welded to the flat part of the crossmember. more than likely im going to weld a complete plate on the side where im cutting the leg off the u channel to make it a solid connection between the crossmember and the u channel. its hard to explain exactly whats its going to look like but im confident it should hold AND give awesome exhaust clearance.

 

Have you made a post in the fabrication section yet? Might be a start.

Hmmm...this will be an interesting looking piece when finished. I think my first idea would be to add gussets to each bend in the piece.

 

yes it will be. i added another pic also.

 

finished the mount today. im very happy with it! semi gloss black finish.

 

Very nice dude! Get it installed and snap a few more pics!

 

This is the battlestar i made from scratch, holding 6000 RPM launches with a T56 and no issue, wish i had a pic of the Spohn mount for the TQ arm on it.

 

That looks great! Definitely post some installed pictures. I'm going to have to send you my stuff when I order it in a few months and have you do the same thing to it, that's awesome!

 

got some exhaust work done today..... pita to get all the right bends!!

 

very nice work the car looks great!!
Back when you had the turbo which model and year manifolds did you use? Why did you decide to ditch that setup? It looked pretty well put together

 

Thank you. And it required too much tlc.

 

Which manifolds did you use?

 

New solenoid location. I like it ALOT better.

 

figured id post up some new pics. forgive the duct tape in the first pic.

 

This picture is awesome! Good lookin ride!

 

Can you post more pictures of your car at different angles? I'd like to see more of the hood because I'm considering selling my steel cowl to go with one of these to save some weight. Not sure if I like the look just yet, but the Sunoco does match lines nicely with the rest of the native lines to the car.

 

Few misc. pics

 

New rims. 17x8 and 17x10.5 torque thrust m

 

Oh, so is this why the nitrous had to go?

 

Nice ride man, I like how you are keeping your upgrades under cover. It is starting to look way too nice to be much of a sleeper anymore though.

That nitrous system is killer. What are you shootin'

 

looks sick! what is the offset on the wheels? stock rear end?

 

sold the kit. didnt want to rish what ive invested soooooooooooo much money in.

 

Looks awesome man! Can't wait to see it in person next Saturday! The weather is supposed to be nice!

 

You guys with your nice weather make me sick...we just got 4" of snow today, and it's still coming down.

The new wheels look really good. I LOVED the old ones though, I'm not sure if it's because the car doesn't have ground effects but the smaller wheels seemed to make it look really good. Either way you can't go wrong with either set.

 

You need to move down here to the Gulf Coast. According to the replacement digital indoor/outdoor thermometer I installed at my Mom's house in SW Houston today it was 88F degrees just outside her front porch. Sorry but I just had to rub a little salt in...

Mike

 

had a few races last night. Got outran by a new bolt on 5.0 on a 100 shot and outran a 2011 gt500

 

Nice kill on the GT500! Are the 2011's using the new 5.0 block or are they still using the supercharged 4.6?

 

New block. 5.0 makes 419 on motor and 556 on spray. Gt500 makes 486 rwhp before the catback was added.

 

Should have numbers and a graph/video to post up thursday