I loved that little turbo on mine. I had a little more head flow than yours (out of the box SVO head on alcohol) and the P trim was in an on...
An 82, is it a D9 block? It's been my experience that the pre-E3 blocks were softer. I've had a lot of the D series blocks with very low miles...
Hey Mike - I'm going to try that with mine this year. If it doesn't light off right away how about using the 3 step trick and bumping into the...
Thanks, that confirms what I've been thinking on the EGT part. I'm going to give it a try this year. My biggest problem is going to be the varying...
Donnie, refresh my memory so I don't have to reread all of this: At first you used the N2O assist, found that retarding the timing helped burn...
You should be able to make 300 at the crank with all the stock stuff and in an 1800 lb. car that would be a really fun ride! Before you get...
Thanks, that's what I'm wondering about. GRP also said I would pull the threads before breaking the bolt but it still made me nervous at first....
I would be very curious as to how the load numbers would come out myself. Are the bobweight numbers that important? Here's why I wonder...... A)...
Stock gaskets have a perforated steel core that doesn't have a lot of lateral strength and folded over armor at the bore. A 1035 has a solid steel...
Think about what happens too on most chassis dynos - the car is facing into a smallish building with the exhaust gas blowing out. I'm sure the...
No, I meant I surface ground the cap flush all the way across and heat treated the straps to 48-50 Rockwell. JD Laramee had some billet caps made...
My personal opinion is that a girdle is not needed at all on a 2.3 Ford. Remember that the girdles on the newer OEM 4 cyl.'s are to add stiffening...
If you're talking completely stock shortblock I can't say. If you mean just the stock block and crank it depends. If you run the numbers on most...