FINALLY- some progress

[OHCbird]

Thanks for the compliments & motivation. The trans X-member has been updated with a new drop-out piece, the DSE SFCs are about to go in this weekend, and my DSE 9" showed up. I love new parts!

I'm shooting for 750 to 800-ish RWHP, which should be easy with the 42R, 83lb injectors, and some solid engine building items (the stock crank will be used/modified). The Supra 2JZ guys make 1000hp on the same turbo (as have some LSX cars), so my extra 1.2+ liters of displacement will only help things. John C's car has made 1350+hp with a 47 turbo and more headwork, further supporting my goals.

The intake and exhaust are just now underway; I had to wait for a 2" die to be refurb'd, and our local tubing supplier retired out of the blue. We've got a real pretty stack of 321 elbows & tube, along with a bunch of 3.5" aluminum.

Frank- at the time I did! that's not all of my welding- I did the tubs and the xmember, plus all the fitting. My fabricator buddy (re: the dude I owe lots of after-hours work to) did the qudralink brackets and front xmember. I did all the fitting / tacking, he did the real & pretty stuff. I'd like to get it to a roller stage & bring it down for you to give me your .02 on my paint issue. If I don't have to go back to the sandbox this fall, The goal is to have a runner by the Turkey Rod Run.

Blown353- I'm running an Accel Gen 7 with the exhaust cam locked out. I wanted to use one of the pulse-width modulated outputs to control the cam, but it appears there won't be much to gain from it (re: more work). But- EFIlive and HPtuners now have software avail to run these in non- ETC mode, so I'm sure we'll see some Trailblazers / Envoys running around with turbos on them.... Oh wait, here's one now (he has some vids up):
http://forums.trailvoy.com/showthread.php?t=5386


Zee- I'm fabricating a pan using the stock rail (to retain the driver side A/C cmopressor- this is FL ya know). I'm working with ARE to come up with a wet-sump design for possible production.

Michael- as a fellow Brightuckian (when I'm back in town), I'd love to stop by and see some of your work. I'd love to do something like you are doing, but down here in FL- I was a navy electronics tech for 12 yrs before doing the flying thing. Lotsa time on AMP, Packard, etc...and I love doing really nice systems. I just don't like the F1 prices of some of the connectors out there!

[Sparky]

You're welcome anytime.....