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  1. Discussion thread---> //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/39431-tomstaments-ultimate-carpi/ There I said it. Cat sans bag? This has probably been the worst kept secret but no more! There is a bit of a long story to how this started - but basically, lent a mate some cash to go pick up a boat he had bought on an impluse bid and I ended up with an LS 6.0 truck motor - so armed with a motor I also on impulse decided to try to build a properly quick drag car after it came about I wasn't going to get to go on the overseas holiday I had been planning due to my project at work running late. after watching ALOT of youtube videos of rolling burnouts and turbo LS things this plan came to be. much motivational respectknuckles going to Denmah/Matt over at sloppymechanics.com and many thanks to my mates Matt, Dan, and I guess Rookiedave (winkface.jpg) the gist of it 2005??? General Motors LQ4 6.0L V8 (like an LS2 from a clubsport except iron block and lower compression) ARP headbolts Stock pistons with gapped rings (28thou) 9.4:1 BIG CAM (Love you longtime Robbie baby!) borgwarner airwerks S475 Turbo 96mm/1.32 hotside china brand hks copy 60mm wastegate rather customised megasquirt 2 running fuel, spark, boost control and two step 95lb bosch injectors twin bosch 044 pumps 600x300x100 air to air intercooler late LS1 commodore intake manifold (same as LS6 corvette engine) water/meth injection rebuilt powerglide with transbrake and 3500+stall running on 98ron pump gas many other things mostly ~600rwhp@~16psish probably etc. #paint lines #fast times #upinsmoke six point oh truck wiring loom is a total guts of thing deloomed 1.76 gearset powerglide from a 66 malibu covered in muck not sure which hat to wear? the plan was originally to use this 1994 320e mercedes as it was cheap, only 190,000km and pretty much everything still works and it drives really nice. unassuming, has decent brakes, handles high speed well and had enough room in the engine bay and a decently strong diff (210mm ring gear) plus 5 up rolling burnouts would have been epic for powercruise etc.. the germans obviously knew people would want to do LS engine swaps and designed the bonnet hinge such that you can flick some toggles to make it go vertical but unfortunately on closer inspection the germans had assumed I would be using a dry sump as everything was going to foul the truck sump or a commodore sump. and because I wanted to go the speeds of fast and faster I came across this problem also. They also thought I would use a T56 Tremec too I guess - I was gonig to have to cut the trans tunnel to hell to fit the really wide powerglide oil pan. This had become more bother than I had bargained for - It would be doable sure (anythings possible) but oh well. back to the drawing board/trademe/dreaming of thirdgens. Merc makes a great daily though I must say. So after a while longer this absolute total piece of shit 1981 Mercury Capri foxbody came up on trademe but for much much less than every other 3rd gen camaro, foxbody anything, or G body buick regal/olds cutlass or anything else deemed worthy. I did think ALOT about FC's but ultimately I didn't want to steal rot808's thunder, and every time I said XF falcon I got shouted down by everyone (everyone being my two mates from work and rookiedave who have helped massively with this project). I got a workmate who was travelling to stratford to check it out and he came back with some useless photos but wasn't too damning on its condition for my purposes so I made a stupid offer after much peer pressure and then suffered the most heinous buyers remorse when it turned up.... I mean who has even heard of a 1981 mercury capri before? really? if you do some research you will find it came with the worst most smog riddled boat anchor 4.2L debored 120hp windsor v8 ford ever made (although fortunately that thing was sacrificed the the ocean some time ago and some kind of 289 or 302 fitted). How does this thing even still exist I do not know. heck it's probably the only one in the country so basically just decided to spend a bunch more money on a much worse car but maybe go a little faster. doing it right? And it appears to have been just abhorrently wrong since the day it was registered too - the lady at nzpost got a really funny look on her face when I went to change the ownership So yeah, just missing some of those celica supra badges really? Anyway enough for now, I'll continue this brothers grim fairytale story tomorrow
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