Please tell me what happened here with these cars...is it because of the EECIV to V change and the coolant crossover failures?? Lord knows this thing will never crack like plastic...
We know we have the redheaded stepchild NPI heads with no valve stem seals left and wont take a cam change. This manifold appears to be a Compressed Natural Gas Intake. I am led to believe that this top end is virtually worthless for a foundation to make power and I am inclined to accept that and have to make some decisions to move forward with our Project car.
We are in good shape with a nice reliable car. Heres the list of done so you get my situation:
New rear springs, shocks, front coilovers.
14 point steering kit, inners and outers, uppers and lowers, all new grease fittings at 45 degrees Front and rear sway bar links
New calipers, rotors, pads all around, drilled and slotted, ceramic
Hi Pressure Steering modification, new stainless line, delete check valve and variable assist and 5' OEM line. Fantastic Mod.
New Rack, flushed and fresh filters, recon cooler.
AC Delete. All of it, even the evaporator in the heater box.
New Heater Core, Radiator, water pump, lines, t-stat. Flushed and cleaned, 160 degrees t stat. Never gets warm.
Condenser repurposed as AT cooler, works great.
Drained and flushed AT 3X, new deep pan with drain, Pickup, Filter, JMOD, all Solenoids to latest, All Accumulators, Shift Springs, per JMOD to 400HP. Valve body microscopically cleaned. 1-2 shift barks the tires at 2/3 throttle, 3-2 skids, 2-1 skids. Awesome mod, great transmission. Crappy Driveshaft, crappier torque converter. Worn out open carrier 3.08.
Four days cold compression tested, every cylinder within 155-160psi range.
Entire Intake system removed, cleaned EGR, PCV, Intake Manifold. Hand ported Intake to gasket, plenum to intake, New DIY CAI with K+N Filtercharger. all new gaskets, injector seals.
Replaced every vacuum hose. Every last one.
Note that EGR tube never connected, Major Vacuum leak at firewall briver side, several small vacuum leaks. This wole up the car.
New Accel Super Coils, 8mm wires, NGK copper plugs.
Positive Crankcase Ventilation plumbing redone, Air Oil Seperator with catch can, additional after catch can air/oil separators. Dual equal length, equal diameter vacuum lines to Intake.
Fuel Filter, Filler tubes, regulator replaced,Lots of Lucas Injector Cleaner, 2 seafoam treatments (spectacular) OIl changed every last 500 for 2500.
Oil filter adapter gasket, sending unit replaced, adapter cleaned.
Dual remote Oil Filters installed with oil cooler provision.
Battery relocated to trunk, all new primary wiring OO welding cable laid in wire tray. Driver battery shutoff switch concealed in console, positive side disconnect.
3000 watt 120V inverter installed, secondary wiring all circuit breaker protected. Capable of running a 1.5HP, 4 gallon air compressor.
DRL, LEDs in cowl vent, additional DOT DRL mid cowl.
LED conversion as available.
A whole bunch of other little stuff too, and most recently we have 17 x 8, 5X114.3 for the front with 245/45ZR17 tires and 18 x 9, 5 x 114.3 for the rear with 275/35ZR18 tires about to get ordered.
We have a Mark VIII single piece driveshaft to be installed and dynamically balanced
We have a 8.8 Carrier with FRPP Trac Lok, missed a chance for a loaded Mark VIII housing with Trac Loc and 3.73 soi we either need a housing or will rebuild ours with 3.73 and a master rebuild kit and Trac Loc carbon rebuild kit and the additives.
We are planning and hoping that the Final Drive, Carrier, Housing, New Driveshaft, DIY bulletproof 4R70W with Trans Brake and force lubed tailshaft, and a 10 inch BC 6500 rpm, 3000+stall Torque Converter all go in the car next Spring or Summer. We see no need for a tune until we have all that done.
So, that leaves us with a stock long block, nearly useless 1995 NPI heads, crappy intake manifold/plenum and log style exhaust manifolds. We can do goodies like TB, Big MAF, Injectors etc when needed, we aint there yet.
We have considered PI Swap and know about the 95 cables, linkages issues. Not super enthused about the PI swap as a partial (intake) or in entirety (heads, intake, cams). My guess is it will be more expensive and more difficult than an engine swap and I still have the linkage issues.
I am stuck on what to do on the top end here...any thoughts for a budget DIY build...what would you do?
And about the exhaust options available....my background tells me shorty headers are no better than the log manifolds, the primary tubes of 24-40 inches do all the scavenging in a header. All I find is JBA, with a shorty and a clippster which I think is also a shorty.
WE have a design for a nice system, but unless I can get long tubes on the engine, there is not much point in going the extra mile to me.
I am hoping for some ideas to help us, this forum has been great so far. It is a real pleasure and a privelidge to be able to access so much good talent willing to help with ideas and experience.
We know we have the redheaded stepchild NPI heads with no valve stem seals left and wont take a cam change. This manifold appears to be a Compressed Natural Gas Intake. I am led to believe that this top end is virtually worthless for a foundation to make power and I am inclined to accept that and have to make some decisions to move forward with our Project car.
We are in good shape with a nice reliable car. Heres the list of done so you get my situation:
New rear springs, shocks, front coilovers.
14 point steering kit, inners and outers, uppers and lowers, all new grease fittings at 45 degrees Front and rear sway bar links
New calipers, rotors, pads all around, drilled and slotted, ceramic
Hi Pressure Steering modification, new stainless line, delete check valve and variable assist and 5' OEM line. Fantastic Mod.
New Rack, flushed and fresh filters, recon cooler.
AC Delete. All of it, even the evaporator in the heater box.
New Heater Core, Radiator, water pump, lines, t-stat. Flushed and cleaned, 160 degrees t stat. Never gets warm.
Condenser repurposed as AT cooler, works great.
Drained and flushed AT 3X, new deep pan with drain, Pickup, Filter, JMOD, all Solenoids to latest, All Accumulators, Shift Springs, per JMOD to 400HP. Valve body microscopically cleaned. 1-2 shift barks the tires at 2/3 throttle, 3-2 skids, 2-1 skids. Awesome mod, great transmission. Crappy Driveshaft, crappier torque converter. Worn out open carrier 3.08.
Four days cold compression tested, every cylinder within 155-160psi range.
Entire Intake system removed, cleaned EGR, PCV, Intake Manifold. Hand ported Intake to gasket, plenum to intake, New DIY CAI with K+N Filtercharger. all new gaskets, injector seals.
Replaced every vacuum hose. Every last one.
Note that EGR tube never connected, Major Vacuum leak at firewall briver side, several small vacuum leaks. This wole up the car.
New Accel Super Coils, 8mm wires, NGK copper plugs.
Positive Crankcase Ventilation plumbing redone, Air Oil Seperator with catch can, additional after catch can air/oil separators. Dual equal length, equal diameter vacuum lines to Intake.
Fuel Filter, Filler tubes, regulator replaced,Lots of Lucas Injector Cleaner, 2 seafoam treatments (spectacular) OIl changed every last 500 for 2500.
Oil filter adapter gasket, sending unit replaced, adapter cleaned.
Dual remote Oil Filters installed with oil cooler provision.
Battery relocated to trunk, all new primary wiring OO welding cable laid in wire tray. Driver battery shutoff switch concealed in console, positive side disconnect.
3000 watt 120V inverter installed, secondary wiring all circuit breaker protected. Capable of running a 1.5HP, 4 gallon air compressor.
DRL, LEDs in cowl vent, additional DOT DRL mid cowl.
LED conversion as available.
A whole bunch of other little stuff too, and most recently we have 17 x 8, 5X114.3 for the front with 245/45ZR17 tires and 18 x 9, 5 x 114.3 for the rear with 275/35ZR18 tires about to get ordered.
We have a Mark VIII single piece driveshaft to be installed and dynamically balanced
We have a 8.8 Carrier with FRPP Trac Lok, missed a chance for a loaded Mark VIII housing with Trac Loc and 3.73 soi we either need a housing or will rebuild ours with 3.73 and a master rebuild kit and Trac Loc carbon rebuild kit and the additives.
We are planning and hoping that the Final Drive, Carrier, Housing, New Driveshaft, DIY bulletproof 4R70W with Trans Brake and force lubed tailshaft, and a 10 inch BC 6500 rpm, 3000+stall Torque Converter all go in the car next Spring or Summer. We see no need for a tune until we have all that done.
So, that leaves us with a stock long block, nearly useless 1995 NPI heads, crappy intake manifold/plenum and log style exhaust manifolds. We can do goodies like TB, Big MAF, Injectors etc when needed, we aint there yet.
We have considered PI Swap and know about the 95 cables, linkages issues. Not super enthused about the PI swap as a partial (intake) or in entirety (heads, intake, cams). My guess is it will be more expensive and more difficult than an engine swap and I still have the linkage issues.
I am stuck on what to do on the top end here...any thoughts for a budget DIY build...what would you do?
And about the exhaust options available....my background tells me shorty headers are no better than the log manifolds, the primary tubes of 24-40 inches do all the scavenging in a header. All I find is JBA, with a shorty and a clippster which I think is also a shorty.
WE have a design for a nice system, but unless I can get long tubes on the engine, there is not much point in going the extra mile to me.
I am hoping for some ideas to help us, this forum has been great so far. It is a real pleasure and a privelidge to be able to access so much good talent willing to help with ideas and experience.