Daily Driven all motor

[powellds2]

Hey, havn't posted here for a while, but I just wanted to share my plans with everyone. I have been following Mark's progress with his all motor 2gnt for a while now and just wanted to say what he has done is absolutley awesome. I currently have my red 97 and have nearly completed it as far as motor and bolt ons go. Here's a list of my current mods:

Top end: Ported and polished head, crower stage 2's, full crower valvetrain, stock valves, sbi rockers and lashers, fidanza adjustable cam gears.

Bottom end: Wiseco.020 over 10.5:1 pistons, Eagle rods, balanced rotating assembly, melling high flow oil pump, acl rod and main bearings.

Bolt ons: AEM CAI, MP 60mm tb, DC Sports 4-2-1 header, Magnaflow 2.25 exhaust with high flow cat, Prothane full motor mount kit, AFX Race ECU, and my amm intake manifold will be here this week.

Drivetrain: Spec stage4 clutch

Suspension: Eibach ground control coilovers, rear and front strut tower bars.

I am going to do an in-depth install of the AMM intake manifold showing everyone how it fits and how everything hooks up to it. I think this is going to be the best bolt on I have bought and encourage everyone to keep and eye on this post for detailed pics of it and the install if you are thinking of getting one. I am shooting for mid 14's and hopefully I will have one of the fastest all motor daily driven 2gnt's, but we will see. Mark has just got me all excited about this and I can thank him for driving me even further with my car. I ran into some money trouble a few years back during my first all motor build and got out of it for a while. I started getting back into it and saw what Mark was doing, so I said to myself, "here we go!" So, just wanted to share with everyone what I currently have going on. When Mike sends me his custom manifold, the only thing I will really need is a set of slicks with lighter wheels since my 18's probably aren't the best for all motor.

 

[Eagle192]

Thats good, im planning on going all-motor too, but the 2.4 way...

 

[Slippi84]

I think it's cool that your trying to go for it too just a heads up though unless you get MSnS you won't see anything like marks times or power though. His tuning skills and ability to know what affect advancing and retarding mechanical timing has on performance is what makes him so fast. Not to mention he has full race crowers. But I'll let him come on and talk about his setup but def good luck. We have almost identical builds except I went a difefrent route with my manifold. I too inquired about buying one of mikes manifolds but I finally got my setup figured out and I won't be setup like I am right now for long anyway. I just hope I don't kick myself as he stated that his manifold made 71 more boosted whp over I don't know if it was the obx or stocker but either way that's a crazy difference. I believe it though as mark made 40who with it and LTHs.

By the way I just realized your the same guy that bought the manifold off mike on 2gnt.com. If my manifold had not showed signs of working I would have def picked that up off him .

 

[powellds2]

I think it's cool that your trying to go for it too just a heads up though unless you get MSnS you won't see anything like marks times or power though. His tuning skills and ability to know what affect advancing and retarding mechanical timing has on performance is what makes him so fast. Not to mention he has full race crowers. But I'll let him come on and talk about his setup but def good luck. We have almost identical builds except I went a difefrent route with my manifold. I too inquired about buying one of mikes manifolds but I finally got my setup figured out and I won't be setup like I am right now for long anyway. I just hope I don't kick myself as he stated that his manifold made 71 more boosted whp over I don't know if it was the obx or stocker but either way that's a crazy difference. I believe it though as mark made 40who with it and LTHs.

By the way I just realized your the same guy that bought the manifold off mike on 2gnt.com. If my manifold had not showed signs of working I would have def picked that up off him .

Yes, I am purely trying to see what kind of numbers we can pull with a basic build and bolt ons only on a 100% daily driver with interior. I am plan to go MSNS at the end of this summer, but right now I want to rock the AFX since it's just a simple matter of six bolts and two harnesses to switch it out. I just want to see if I can get good numbers with (in my opinion) any joe shmo can do with a basic build with bolt ons only. I am still deciding what to do after I am done with everything and test it all out at the track, possibly higher compression turbo, or maybe just 150 shot of nitrous. I think it will go like this: Test 1/4 time with stock manifold, then with amm's manifold. Then, I will be switching from 18's wheels to 15's with cheater slicks to see the difference. Then, a switch from the afx ecu to MSNS. So, this will be a summer long testing phase. I am getting my amm manifold tomorrow and I will post everything as I do it. ~Jeffo

 

[Slippi84]

Yes, I am purely trying to see what kind of numbers we can pull with a basic build and bolt ons only on a 100% daily driver with interior. I am plan to go MSNS at the end of this summer, but right now I want to rock the AFX since it's just a simple matter of six bolts and two harnesses to switch it out. I just want to see if I can get good numbers with (in my opinion) any joe shmo can do with a basic build with bolt ons only. I am still deciding what to do after I am done with everything and test it all out at the track, possibly higher compression turbo, or maybe just 150 shot of nitrous. I think it will go like this: Test 1/4 time with stock manifold, then with amm's manifold. Then, I will be switching from 18's wheels to 15's with cheater slicks to see the difference. Then, a switch from the afx ecu to MSNS. So, this will be a summer long testing phase. I am getting my amm manifold tomorrow and I will post everything as I do it. ~Jeffo

Sounds good def good luck and look forward to seeing your results. I'm hope your more disciplined than I am cause I thought about doing that and after a good deal or two I went nuts and now I have no interior bigger goals and empty pockets