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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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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...
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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
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Big fan of the black engine bay, looks sinister!!  What do you for rear suspension? -Eldon
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bad @$$.!
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babysitting turboland...
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Says your in Tn but I swear Ive seen that car before. That car show picture looks real familiar....where was that at?
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98 gmc sonoma lt1/th350 s488 5.80 @ 127 / 8.92 @ 155.6mph
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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!!
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Nice job. The wrap is just stunning! The cage looks impressive and safe! Can't wait to see some video! 
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wow nice work!
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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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What cam do i run? Hell i dunno. I just pulled it out of the trash can, cleaned it off and it went 9.37
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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! 
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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.
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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.
keep us updated im sure u will get your 9.50 pass with no prob.and then some good luck
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great looking ride! keep up the nice work. on 2nd note, is that huge sheriff going to be able to run anyone down?  come on.
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i went to the store and got a nice fucking steak and marinated that fucker in antifreeze for a few days. then i hand fed it to that mutherfucker. -clem
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Once we cleared things up and proved that the car was still "street legal" (its tagged, registered and insured) they were cool as shit, the guy in the video running out in the street is the pain in the ass that always calls the cops...the kids loved it tho  fat boy is scoping out the ctsv not the trans-am
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Haha ya they REALLY liked that car lol we did a Hendrix blower cam, 112 maggie and are in the process of finishing up a mutant Nitrous outlet/HSW/NANO hard lined plate setup on it  It made 480 on 6-7lbs before the nitrous, we are shooting for 600hp with the jug. 
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I hope you got a plan for the getrag. That will be the first thing to pop.
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Its the second one in it and itll be the last lol, theres an 8.8 sitting on the floor waiting to go in but there MIGHT be a cast steel direct replacement option coming out very soon so we might go that route since the hendrix axle that are already in it will work.... We will see. Either way that diff isnt going to stay.
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