Tms951

Today we finished the oil cooler install and fluids are going in the car now. The oil cooler is a 25 row mocal. I bought a lindsey kiss cooler set up, but when we were installing it we found the stock cooler and lines to be in bad shape. It also turned out that both the stock and lindsey units would not get much air flow if any to them with my bumper set up. The lindsey cooler calls for removing the fog light which is not an option for me. We ended up eliminating the stock cooler and replacing the lindsey 13 row mocal with a 25 row one. Then we relocated the whole set up to in front of the a/c condenser. I am very happy with the set up and think it will work great. It also gets the best air flow of any thing on my car and has free space behind it.

RolexNJ

Hos: You've seen this happen with a T4 & .58 a/r? That's interesting. I can tell you from personal experience that wasn't the case with me. When ST and I were driving/datalogging with the ZT2, we didn't see this at all in the trace.

Tms951: Sweet project car, very nice! So at this stage, what's your RWHP range? Good luck with it and keep us posted.

Tms951

The car has not been started yet, it is getting very close and I think we will start it on monday. I will not have any dyno graphs until around mid april. Because its winter here now I don't think I will be able to drive it until spring. After the breakin is done (500 miles) I will put in the cam and lifters and get a piggy back to fine tune things. At around 3000 miles I will go to the dyno and do some high boost pulls on race gas and pump. I have a 400whp goal for high boost on pump gas, I don't feel there will be any problem with this. I would really like to break 500whp on race gas and max boost, I will be waiting for the vitesse knock gauge thing to come out for this.

RolexNJ

Tms951: Yeah I know its winter where I am too. Not that far from you. So you have the whole winter to work on this project, so take your time and do it right. The car looks beautiful. So keep everyone posted on the progress.

porshhhh951

badass.

simply badass

Tms951

Thanks for the compliments guys. I will continue to keep this thread updated.

Duke

very very sweet! make sure to get some video clips of that beast

porshhhh951

hell yes

Tms951

My friend went to film school. In the spring he wants to do a short film of the car, it will contain track and "closed" street driving as well as info on the biuld of the car and a dyro run or two would be cool, I have only ever driver awd cars at the drag strip so unless I am a quick learner and put down some good times that will not be in the film.

pic with bumper on.

HughA44s

Perhaps someone on this site would be willing to provide a driving service to you so you could do this film. Just ask - LOL

RolexNJ

Hummm... I may have a professional driver in mind.

DDP

What suspension do you have on it? Riding really high it seems like.

Tms951

It has M030 on it now and yes it is very high for some reason. I have an escort cup kit on the way from lindsey now, it will be lowered 1" in the front and 1.5-2" in the back. The kit is 500F 350r street vavled with camber plates. I think the taller profile of the rear tire lifted the rear some.

jimbo1111

This is shaping up to be one bad a$$ 951. Looks like you have all the right parts too. Good luck.

RolexNJ

Big bump Jimbo, the car is looking very sweet.


Tms951: Since it's winter here now for people like us, throw us some bones (pics) as you progess so we can at least watch you build this sweet car of yours.