S480 Trans Am Build.

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Figured I would start a build thread for our "275" drag radial car:) Were building this thing as mainly for our local 1/8 street car classes but hope we can eventually get into bigger races and be competitive.

The cars a 99 TA that started the build as a forged 346 with a 200 shot on it. We are reusing the short black and put a set of 6.0 heads with .660 lift patriots on it, head studs and new MLS gaskets. the trans is a built th400 with a hipster trans brake and a custom FTI converter. were using a 6.0 logs and 2.5" cross over to feed the S480, it has a race cover so it should help get us to our modest goal of 9.50 ET's with the 346.

Parts list

Engine:
Stock crank knife edged
Compstar rods
Mahle Pistons
ARP hardware/head studs
Patriot vavle springs/retainers
stock valves
6.0 heads w/MLS gaskets
edelbrock single plane intake with cast elbow and fuel rails
ls2 timing chain
ls7 lifters
custom cam

Fuel:
Nasty N8 2000HP setup
Magna fuel pump
aluminum tank in stock location
96 lb/hr
-10 feed -8 return

Trans/Rear
TH400 trans brake
4000 rpm FTI converter
9" moser 31 splines
Trans cooler

Turbo:
6.0 manifolds
50mm WG JGS
56mm BOV JGS
Airworks S480 with a Race cover 1.10A/R
2.5" cross overs 5" down pipe necked down to 4"

PICS!
First things first, cut the fire wall and smooth the engine bay and get rid of the damn cowl!!
 




Cut out all the BS around the heater box and welded in new plate with bead rolls






 
 

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Motor plate and mid plate





starting to mock up!



New hood!

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More work on the engine bay!




PAINT!




Presentable! not running but looking good!





Chomoloy 10 point with a custom funny car cage going in!



Driver Mod?

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Heres some random pics from through out the build.

Oil drain -12AN

Oil feed, SWEEET travel limiter

Fuel pump and tank

Down pipe routing



Ill have ALOT more posted tonight weve made some really good progress this week including getting the wiring dont, switch panel located, cage painted, FAST XFI installed, Parachute mount installed...etc etc...

[domn8rx]

Very nice, it looks funny with the cowl gone, never seen it that way. Should've been that way from the start. Nice work, is that a wrap?

john

[fastestdriver]

Big fan of the black engine bay, looks sinister!!   What do you for rear suspension?

-Eldon

[99TTGT]

bad @$$.!

[slammed98gmc]

Says your in Tn but I swear Ive seen that car before. That car show picture looks real familiar....where was that at?

[tricked-out-toy]

Very nice, it looks funny with the cowl gone, never seen it that way. Should've been that way from the start. Nice work, is that a wrap?

john

Thanks man! we tried to clean up the engine bay as much as possible and the firewall with the cowl and AC delete came out really well. Yup its a wrap! we tossed around alot of paint ideas but the wrap made more sense for a race car.

Big fan of the black engine bay, looks sinister!!   What do you for rear suspension?

-Eldon

Rear suspesion is Qa1's BMR drag bar with Rod end links, adjustable control arms and panhard rod. We will be mini tubing it in a few months and shortening the axles and gettign a nice dish on the rears.

Says your in Tn but I swear Ive seen that car before. That car show picture looks real familiar....where was that at?

We brought it to the gathering in ATL earlier this year? thats about the only place its been out to. (we were showing the motor plate and alt bracket off for the sponsors (AEI inc)

Weve almost got it fired up yesterday but ran out of time before it needed to at a benifit car show. the guys at FAST have been AMAZING to work with, Robin spent damn near the whole day on the phone with Tim trouble shooting some hardware issues! Im hoping by new weekend we will ahve it up and fired. then its on to the brakes and cooling system!!

[Nice Chevelle]

Nice job.  The wrap is just stunning!  The cage looks impressive and safe!   Can't wait to see some video!

 

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Nice job.  The wrap is just stunning!  The cage looks impressive and safe!   Can't wait to see some video!

 

Thanks man! The cage has some custom features to it that I hadnt seen before and i think adds a little somthing extra to it. Heres some more pitures. with the exception of the radiator and coolant hoses this is how it looks in running form. we ran into some issues with the FAST and have been working them out the the guys there, BTW FAST customer service is better than any company I have EVER worked with! they spent over 6 hours on the phone with us working through a bunch of stuff!










For you mustang owners this is our buddies Extreme street Vortech car

[jay_rich]

wow nice work!

Jay

[trbo355]

Nice work! Im anxious to see how the edelbrock Victor and their elbow work in a boosted application. I put that intake and elbow on a bone stock 2007 6 liter truck engine that got plopped into (of all things) a 50 merc lowrider. The damn thing runs low 13's in the 1/4 mile!
Keep up the nice work guys!

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Got it fired up this weekend We dont have the cooling system done yet and we havent messed with the tune at all. Im not even sure what base tune we have loaded in the FAST... Heres the first start up vid!

[quick 80]

very nice car i think u will be happy with the s480 i have the same one on my car u shouldnt have any probs.getting to your 9.50 mark at all how many lbs. u plan on starting out with and what type of inner cooler do u have good luck

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Thanks man! Were running a no name A2W mounted up behind the dash. It came from another car making north of 1300hp with a 94mm and didnt have any trouble with IATs. We plan to run it as hard as possible, bassically whatever the motor can handle, Im figureing about 15lbs, probably start seeing water around 18lbs...We will have a couple different tunes locked down so we can run nice and conservative at our local track and crank it up for the bigger races.

[quick 80]

Thanks man! Were running a no name A2W mounted up behind the dash. It came from another car making north of 1300hp with a 94mm and didnt have any trouble with IATs. We plan to run it as hard as possible, bassically whatever the motor can handle, Im figureing about 15lbs, probably start seeing water around 18lbs...We will have a couple different tunes locked down so we can run nice and conservative at our local track and crank it up for the bigger races.

keep us updated im sure u will get your 9.50 pass with no prob.and then some good luck   

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Some updates. Radiator and water pump finally 100% mounted. Were just missing 8 AN fittings which will be in this week and the cooling system will be 100% complete! Also added a bumper/fender skeleton thats pretty much a straight ripoff of Mark Kohlers fender/bumper support. This allows us to take the whole front clip off in one piece and gives it ALOT of strength without adding a big front bumper support.

Oh ya and we also worked out a deal with a buddy of mine for his forged/studded 408 iron block