T5shortblock

this thread delivers

good lord that is full of win.

looking forward to seeing this thing in person and meeting some of you guys. See you next week!

sick! sounds alot like my car actually!

awesome pics, that tranny is... tinny! lol

Loving the manifold

wow

and bag it sick car dude!

SD500? T5shortblock approved!!! B)

COP ftw!! Nice work!! We need sound clips!!!!!

title says no car! my buddies KTM 450EXCR

What is going on with SD-C are you selling the shell?

Great updates. Looking forward to the progress of SD7 And what a change for SD5!! Amazing The front end looks perfect. Does the R bumper bold right up the S60? And what is that lip?

SD5 looks amazing Johann!!

Upgraded my browser to IE8 today, wow, what a difference. :)

Awesome progress on a very interesting project! My question is, if the 2.3 liter duratec was available standart, why buy the car with the 1.6 just to swap the 2.3 anyway?

if this is the ford you are talking about we are all ears! :)

Is it just me or this new board is a lagging peace of junk?? Takes forever to post, scroll through threads etc... I miss the old VS, this is not progress...

sleepy! I like. I remember Seamus's thread on this on VPtuning back in the day... he's already put 40k on that thing?! ahhhhhh, good times...

so the Rica chip is tuned for a 19T, or a 35R? it would not be quite the same thing, and a tuner willing to do such a big setup whitout the car seems a bit sketch... anyways, at least youre block is bulletproof.

LOL, youre right, as a matter of a fact, one of my good friends, who you have seen pictures of his car ( the red mkIII gti vr6 golf slammed on black rims) installed a vortech V2 on his stock block with a 12psi pulley, and baught a cheap chip for it instead of tuning it, and blew up cylinder number 6 in no time, maybe a week or so... For pricing, depending on what you get isen't that much more expensive, I'm thinking a honda or vw guy who gets an AEM EMS for 1000$ and gets it tuned for 700$ ends up paying much more than I will. The tuner who will be doing my car will burn a custom chip and install it in my stock ECU for 800$... on another note: mind bottling, sounds funny, loll

good to know, I haven't baught any rods, I'm not planning to unless I decide to up the boost, I'm looking for 300whp, with a 1bar spring on my tial 38mm. I'll be getting a top notch tune by one of the best tuners in my area, and will be running 94 octane only. The suply is close to my house and easy to find around town... I think that will be enough to ensure my rods do not bend, everyone I have spoken to who has bent there rods with a b5234 in the 300whp ballpark seem to have bent them becose of poore or lack of tuning, including you and black T5, I rest my case. The Honda and VW crowd have been getting tunes for there mild to wild hp cars for years now, and only in the volvo crowd do we see people running manuel boost controlers without remaps on there expensive engines... this fact bottles my mind to this day, loll

What do you think caused this? poor tuning? low grade fuel? ( detonation because of fuel ) over loading the engine at low RPM, by boost surge maybe? just wondering what to look for when the GT30R will be on mine at 1 bar...

what if i't a bit higher than 150, but a bit narower than 650, say 450 x 250?? is that ok??

RBoy8, no, mine did not come with an R hat... loll, thanks for those of you who liked my pic... I got 2 say, that burnout is HAWT!! congrats,you deserv the win for sacrificing your tires... loll.