Last drive before winter
 

A couple of winter plans but I wanted to see if I noticed much difference with this blackbird fabworx spoiler. I can say it does feel more plated at speed on the street. I am looking forward to feeling it on the sweepers at the track in the spring.
Plans for winter.
Brake ducting
New intercooler and piping
Supermiata radiator
drive more...
Will update more with useless photos of stuff that I didn't need to buy.
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So finally messing with this. I ordered a BOFI racing intercooler piping kit. I didn't realize it came with the intercooler. LOL. Long story short I couldn't use it with how I mounted my oil cooler. So I still am using my generic core that seems to do well. I no modification was needed other than one hiccup. To use this with a skunk2 throttle body the 2.5 inch coupler that it came with will not work. I did find one that will from Real St. (i'm sure other companies sell it.) but this worked for my particual instance. I have the weird idle air control on my 97 so I need more space so I could rig up the vacuum source. I figured this out after buying just a regular sized 2.75-2.5 reducer 90.

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I'm not sure if I'm going to keep that cobalt hose or not at this point.

I also bit the bullet and got a lighter weight battery setup.

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It's cold out and I feel like it's going to be forever before I get to drive it again. I'm excited to redo everything at this point that has been bothering me since I first got it put together. I am curious to see if I see faster spool times with this 2.5 piping on the hot side. I had straight 2 inch on the hotside before.

Now THAT is a clean NA. Props sir, keep it up.

Finally got it back on the ground. Just needs an alignment/corner balance and the coolant blead off.

Things I did.
-Depowered rack Inner Outer tierods and bushings. (I tried to make power steering work with a cooler and resevoir. Still blew shit all over my engine bay.)
-BOFI racing intercooler kit
-New fuel filter
-Radio Delete
-Braille Battery with a fancy tie down.
-Fluid Dampr


The goal was to make the car spool a bit faster, less fussy, and easily servicable. Unfortunately with the old intercooler setup the cold side was all one pipe, and to do anything I'd have to pretty much muscle that thing out of there to do anything. Now with a full 2.5inch setup, and the joined silicone setup its a lot cleaner and easier to get to thing.

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Nascar
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Pretty sure it's not that much lighter
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Much more room for activites
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Out with the old
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Pretty sure this was the original one. Got a new bracket too.
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Next up is an OS Giken diff! hopefully sometime this spring or early summer.

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Car is corner balanced and aligned. Just got off the dyno and we put in an electronic boost controller.
2 years ago it made 218 whp and 200 tq. With a little more boost it made 236 232 BUT the biggest difference is the low end power. Average WHP is up 30% and about 27 whp at 3800 rpm from being able to mess with the boost bleed off down low. Car wasn't slow before, but the down low torque is so much fun.

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