Tron
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I will start with a little history on the car as to where it started, where it is right now just before starting the build, and everything that is going on it. The car is a 2008 mustang gt, made 261whp on big 3's mustang dyno with axleback muffler deletes. As the car sits now it made 300whp( Mustang dyno again ) withC&L street CAI, Steeda charge motion delete plates, Steeda underdrive pullies, Pypes long tube headers and off road x and the stock cat back. car was tuned with an SCT Livewire tuner by Matt at Street Stangs.
I have been going through ideas on how I wanted to boost the car and have been dead set on at least 10 different setups. there are so many different ways to boost these cars with centri blowers, roots type superchargers, tvs superchargers, and turbos that coming to a conclusion on what I wanted to do had me beating my head against the wall.
I finally decided on the Turbohorsepower single turbo kit. The kit utilizes a garret 61mm turbo, Tial 38mm wastegate, Tial 50mm BOV, jet-hot coated piping, and uses the stock manifolds. The kits are built to order so after just under 3 weeks the parts are coming in. the piping, intercooler, oil filter relocation kit, over flow bottle, brackets and other goodies arrived yesterday ( fed ex rocks for saturday deliveries ). The turbo is getting shipped from Garret which I'm still waiting on a shipping confirmation, and the couplers, wastegate, and bov will be delivered on Monday (May 23rd).
The kit is supposed to make 460whp on 6psi ( unsure on what type of dyno it made the power on ). I will start with the 6psi spring and see what it makes, and possibly put the 8psi spring in if there is room. The car will be tuned on 93oct. I am trying to keep the power under 500hp which is supposed to be the magical unicorn number at which blocks explode and atheists turn evangelical. On a serious note for every car there is the made up number to what an engine is supposed to hold and for the 3v 4.6 500whp is supposed to be it although there are people that have made more and survived and people that made less and have blown up. I figure as long as the tune is spot on and I keep good gas in it I should be fine.
I will try to keep this up to date and filled with pictures of the during process but I am really terrible at stopping to take pictures once I start working.
For the TL;DR crowd, here are some pics and a mod list.
more to come as more stuff rolls in.
complete mod list, *indicates what will be pulled off for the turbo setup
- C&L street CAI *
- Steeda under drive pullies
- Steeda charge motion delete plates
- Pypes long tube headers and off road x *
- 80lb FRPP injectors
- SCT BA-5000 mass air meter
- GT500 dual fuel pump setup with second FPDM
- Granatelli motor mounts
- UMI LCA's
- UMI adjustable pan hard bar
- FRPP "k" springs
- Koni Yellows
- BMR sway bars
- 2010 18" Gt500 wheels ( convertible cast wheels, coupes had 19" forged, same design)
- 305/4018 Nitto nt555r rears
- 255/4518 Dunlop Direzza DZ101 fronts
- SOS dual pod pillar replacement, replaces actual whole pillar instead of attaching onto the stock pillar
- AEM digital boost and UEGO wideband
- 61mm TurboHorsePower turbo kit
Here are some pictures of the car. The first is the only pic i have of it with the new wheels, it was taken by a buddy at work, can barely see it though lol.
Thanks for looking!
I have been going through ideas on how I wanted to boost the car and have been dead set on at least 10 different setups. there are so many different ways to boost these cars with centri blowers, roots type superchargers, tvs superchargers, and turbos that coming to a conclusion on what I wanted to do had me beating my head against the wall.
I finally decided on the Turbohorsepower single turbo kit. The kit utilizes a garret 61mm turbo, Tial 38mm wastegate, Tial 50mm BOV, jet-hot coated piping, and uses the stock manifolds. The kits are built to order so after just under 3 weeks the parts are coming in. the piping, intercooler, oil filter relocation kit, over flow bottle, brackets and other goodies arrived yesterday ( fed ex rocks for saturday deliveries ). The turbo is getting shipped from Garret which I'm still waiting on a shipping confirmation, and the couplers, wastegate, and bov will be delivered on Monday (May 23rd).
The kit is supposed to make 460whp on 6psi ( unsure on what type of dyno it made the power on ). I will start with the 6psi spring and see what it makes, and possibly put the 8psi spring in if there is room. The car will be tuned on 93oct. I am trying to keep the power under 500hp which is supposed to be the magical unicorn number at which blocks explode and atheists turn evangelical. On a serious note for every car there is the made up number to what an engine is supposed to hold and for the 3v 4.6 500whp is supposed to be it although there are people that have made more and survived and people that made less and have blown up. I figure as long as the tune is spot on and I keep good gas in it I should be fine.
I will try to keep this up to date and filled with pictures of the during process but I am really terrible at stopping to take pictures once I start working.
For the TL;DR crowd, here are some pics and a mod list.
more to come as more stuff rolls in.
complete mod list, *indicates what will be pulled off for the turbo setup
- C&L street CAI *
- Steeda under drive pullies
- Steeda charge motion delete plates
- Pypes long tube headers and off road x *
- 80lb FRPP injectors
- SCT BA-5000 mass air meter
- GT500 dual fuel pump setup with second FPDM
- Granatelli motor mounts
- UMI LCA's
- UMI adjustable pan hard bar
- FRPP "k" springs
- Koni Yellows
- BMR sway bars
- 2010 18" Gt500 wheels ( convertible cast wheels, coupes had 19" forged, same design)
- 305/4018 Nitto nt555r rears
- 255/4518 Dunlop Direzza DZ101 fronts
- SOS dual pod pillar replacement, replaces actual whole pillar instead of attaching onto the stock pillar
- AEM digital boost and UEGO wideband
- 61mm TurboHorsePower turbo kit
Here are some pictures of the car. The first is the only pic i have of it with the new wheels, it was taken by a buddy at work, can barely see it though lol.
Thanks for looking!
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