redzedturbo

hey guys feel free to post questions or comments for this is not an on going build yet i'm just posting the last year of work. so don't think its impolite to post i encourage it

CODE RED MUSTANG lmao but im down for a rb25 swap as much as i got love for the L....

well as soon as the boost went up to 14 psi and jake fixed my launch control my clutch started slipping so as always im broke so here is my fix. it was cheap from ebay and this puppy works good pedal pressure is up about 20% or so but the grip is nothing short of amazing. when the disc is cold it acts stock but when it gets hot it gets harder to engage softly the disc gets thicker from thermal expansion and you will have less and less pedal to modulate the actuation. but it IS VERY STREET DRIVABLE. when using the t5 trans always buy a shifter with bump stops so you dont destroy your syncros like i did ha ha lesson learned. i got this one from summit racing for a early mustang 40% throw reduction sweet short shifts.

im also running a maxima ka 65mm throttle body port matched to my intake and all my egr stuff has been cut off and welded shut. my cable throttle was a quick fix that never got removed because it worked so damn well. its a schwinn brake cable jake got at wal mart because when we done the ms1 swap the tb spacer jake made was not quiet thick enough so we went to cable but it was 4am in the morning nothing was open but wal mart and well it works. the plug wires are accel sb chevy cut to fit. and i ended up getting gas on the valve cover so the black paint is no more. i scrubbed it down in aircraft stripper looks better silver anyways right?

Just for the record alot of the stuff i will be posting did not happen in the order i post them. the head was actually the last thing we did. we being me and jake or as you know him Xnke. any way i wanted more power so i ordered a bov,intercooler and piping with silicone couplers from frozenboost.com which is fantastic by the way. the intercooler is beautiful and the tanks very heavy cast this thing is made for boost LOTS OF IT. we used 2 1/4'' piping which was very easy to weld with a simple wipe down with acetone. frozen boost are the most professional people i have ever ordered from period. i ordered 2'' piping and it was out of stock but because it did not say so on the site they contacted me and offered me the 2 1/4'' at the same price and give me 15% off my entire order and express shipped it for no shipping charge. just really good people to order from and there products are tops. i told them i was going to post before and after intake temps to see if there 189.99 intercooler was any good or just a big piece of aluminum. they said let them know if there is anything they could improve. by the way my intake temps via megasquirt with a gm sensor was 225 deg at 10 psi on a 90 deg day. with the intercooler at 14 psi on a 90 deg day my temps are 115-125!!! thanks again to frozen boost and jake for tig welding the whole thing up...

well after sorting out suspension and rust AND BRAKES the hunger for more power was getting stronger. the p90a head had 2 lifters not pumping up and making clickity clackity noise that i could hear through the firewall. so off came the lifters in favor of solids and a F cam from a maxima l24. some how in the cam swap while i levered off rockers i bent a valve (shown by compression check) and the car ran on three cylinders when reassembled. but it was running on 1-5-6 not possible you say? i bed to differ! turns out ANTS got into my fuel rail while the intake was sitting in the yard for 1 1/2 hours. after getting very angry knowing it was assembled correctly jake later took my shinny new flow matched and blueprinted 450cc dsm injectors out and back washed them to find 2-3-4 full of ants..... it ran fine after the ant removal. then we get to the bent valve problem. we tried to order a set of si valves and they only had the intakes. being the valve i bent was a exhaust this did not help right. scott at pro machine in bowling green ky was kind enough to cut us a set to fit out of stellite blanks for some sort of nascar engine. anyway after reassembly of the engine and all was good and compression check up on all cylinders jake drove it down the street after lash was set and it threw off the no.6 rocker my exhaust valve stuck open!!! so off came the head one more time this time jake cleaned up the ports lightly and the head went to scott at pro machine for a full valve job.

but before we get to all the good stuff first was rust repair where t tops were leaking and i had rust holes completely thru my floor pans and seat mounts. when i drove in the rain my ass got wet from the tire slinging water at my seat lmao. all the carpet and sound dead material was remover because it smelled mildewed on hot days. look at jake under the car haha haaaa.

first off the car had no brakes when i received it prev owner said it needed brakes little did i know they were no longer working. THANKS ALOT! so she got 4 new rotors 4 new calipers, pads, power booster and master cyl. now she will stop very well. anyway i ran 10psi with no intercooler and a bosch bov stock injectors for many months on a fairly good tune average mpg was 27 or so and power was good. it was not long before good was not good enough and project red rocket began. starting with all poly bushings and tokico suspension.

hey guys thought i would post my progress on my 1983 280zx turbo build. since its coming along well i said to myself why not post it and just maybe it will help someone else just starting out. here are some pics of her when the day i took her home for 3500.

ls1 cool sensor threads in to stock location by num 5 cylinder but im running mine from the side of the thermostat housing works good for the last year i run ms1 v3 with stock turbo dizzy. if you have the funds go mega and dont look back! it took me and my brother 2 days to make my harness from scratch and get it to idle. and for god sake change the injector clips when you go ms im glad we did the stock retaining clips are crap. good luck man.