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Pm sent dave

 

Let me know if I missed you on the responses. I am not looking to part this out. The car itself is worth more than half of what I am asking without the engine or extra parts. I have been on this site along time and never seen a poster that has all the parts I have. I know what I have because I bought them and have the receipts to prove it. I have every option package SLP offered for the T-Ram along with the boxes they came in and original instructions. Nobody on this board has the same things. With the optional parts that are included you can install this intake on any year TPI car. Auto or manual transmission, cruise control or non cruise, AC or non AC.

 

Video of the car running just before the distributor gear gave way and quit spinning the rotor.


Notice the condition of the car and interior.

 

Car looks great - sorry about the divorce, been there myself. Good luck with the sale.

 

I have a buyer coming up from Oregon this weekend to buy the car and all the parts. I hope Charlie posts videos when he gets the car running and or puts the T-Ram on his car, or both. He will have enough parts to do both, just needs a distributor.

 

 

Awesome. Post a pic on YouTube of it running. What state will the car be in? Love to see it at a show one day.

 

Portland Or if all goes as planned!

 

Congratulations Charlie - persistence pays off!


Welcome to the club!

 

 

 

Anxious to see much more, deserves a build thread... or two...

 

 

 

 

Nice! Congrats again!

 

I thought it would run with a new distributor. Any issues on the test drive? Did you drain the fuel or is siphon as much out as you could and put some fresh fuel in? Any water or oil leaks? I got your text, I dont doubt the injectors should be cleaned, I dont recall if I left the white 36lb? injectors in it or went back to the old reliable 24#ers that TPIS blueprinted back in the late 90's. Might just be the video, but the exhaust doesnt sound as crisp as it did before, you should be able to hear each cylinder fire through the headers and at the exhaust tips, it should sound crisp. The throttle response should be super crisp when you goose it.

Keep posting man, I hope you get it dialed in enough to make some decent passes soon. Also hope you have as much fun with the car and or T-Ram as I did. I know they went to the right person.

 

Keep the T-ram on it. HSR isn't anywhere near as iconic. T-Ram makes that car unique and special.

 

 

Do you have the link on YouTube to hear it?

 

 

Awesome !!

 

If you pop the factory caps off the strut towers in the engine bay you will see the tops of the adjustable struts. There should be a white plastic star shaped disc in the console that says KONI on it, put that on top of the strut shaft and turn it to adjust the valving on the strut. I think I left them on the softest settings.The rear shocks can be adjusted also, but you have to peel the carpet back to get to the top of them. In hindsight, the adjustable Koni's wasn't a smart investment, you dont road race a car with a loose automatic convertor and and lots of low end torque.

 

Well, gasket files sent in, test gaskets sent back to me, changes made and sent back to them and after quite a bit of steps to get T-ram gaskets made I get this today.

I'm sorry, but I've not had the availability to quote this work and my staff has been unable to get to this request. We will not be able to provide this work. My suggestion is that you reach out to a gasket manufacturer. Best of luck with your project.


On to the next quitter I guess.....

 

That Sucks.........

 

The designer for the T Ram is Carl Woodruff from SLP. Would be nice to get more made 😉

 

Ryan is who designed the T-ram for SLPs specs but he doesn't know who cast and machined it.. I talked with him on the phone a few years back and he said he received 0 credit from SLP for it.
My understanding is the molds were destroyed in the fire. Not sure how true it is tho.

 

Sign me up for one - I'd buy one for sure - I'd love to find one - would be willing to pay top $$ for a really nice one !

 

How much is top $? I have one

 

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Well there you go......an obnoxious one in every crowd !!

 

 

Messages dont work on my IB app. I have no idea of value. 2k wont buy mine. ...I do know that.

 

 

Like I said - one in every crowd

 

Just for giggles, does anyone have any NOS T-ram gaskets floating around to measure ?

 

 

 

I did, made some corrections, sent that back and after all that, they said we can't do them.

 

 

NICE........ what are you going to do for a waterneck?

 

 

 

I think the base of the neck/boltholes are turned different than a stock tpi? I don't think it would be hard to cut up and weld a stock neck together for a T-ram.

 

 

Why is that a problem? Was it not sand cast? I understand blasting a die cast changes the finish, but I didn't think sand cast made a difference?

 

It won't hurt the intake from a functional point of view but from a visual pov, it does soften the casting and pits machined surfaces unless you tape them off.
Some people (like me) are weird about "the look" lol

 

There's something about fresh, bare, cast aluminum that you just can't bring back. They're only original once.