Tim's car came to my house as a bone stock 24,000 mile GN with a blown head gasket. The vacuum line to the wastegate blew off and the car over boosted.
Tim wanted to add a little power to the car to lay waste to the imports running around his town. We came up with a combo that made the GN a very quick street car. No times yet, but I'm trying to get him to the track
Tim was not worried about looking stock, but everything done can be reversed.
Some of the highlights of the upgrades:
Very nice set of ported heads from Kip A. These feature Ferrea valves and are ported to the Felpro 1200 gasket. Also added a ported stock intake to the mix that lined up perfectly to the heads. For the turbo we went with a 44 because the car still has the stock trans and converter. Tim will probably add those later as he gets addicted to going fast with this car:biggrin: To fuel the car, I added 60# injectors, Racetronix pump with a Caspers hotwire kit. The chip will be a Turbo Tweak street chip (still waiting on that, it has a barrowed one in there now.) A billet adj. fuel pressure regulator was also installed. The stock downpipe and exhaust were replaced with a nice 2.5" SS ATR system and a TA 3" downpipe with cut out. To monitor the engine, I installed a boost and oil pressure gauge in a holder that goes in the console under the radio. A scanmaster is now in the car now to monitor the tuning. I decided this car was too nice for one of those engine tie down deals, so I talked Tim into going with some HR Parts engine mounts.
Right now the boost is only at 15 psi. Hopefully we can get it to the track and work our way up to the 20 psi range. The car should do a decent trap speed at the strip. ET is going to be off because the car is on stock sized tires and was originally ordered w/o a limited slip
My recommendations to Tim for future upgrades are:
posi
Moser axles
Extremeautomatics stage 2 trans
upgraded intercooler
sticky tires
I think the car will do 12's the way it sites now with the stock tires. Ultimately, I would like to see the car do a low 11....maybe a high 10
Turn it up a little and tell me how it does. Maybe go to the track Friday night?
