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Thought I'd finally start a thread now that I have some downtime. Here's the history of my car. I bought it in 2008 from BJ in Tennessee. I had it transported to me sight unseen.. Probably not the best idea, but oh well. He had already done a 90' Getrag 282 swap with matching sub frame and lower control arms. Also had a 99' 3400, Eibach lowering springs, rear strut tower brace, and a lot of wiring issues.. I DDed it until this May with just minor repairs here and there.

Heres how she looked when I first bought her This May after the semester ended I decided to finally install some parts that I had laying around.

From May-August I installed these things. I had the engine out and apart in a night but ran into lots of other issues.. so it took a lot longer than expected.

Wot-Tech ported 3500 heads with comp springs.
Wot-Tech ported LIM and UIM
Wot-Tech custom cam/pushrods: 268/284 seat to seat, 214/230 @ .050, .528/.528 lift, 113 ICL 114 LSA.
ARP head studs
TCE 65mm TB
TCE Phenolic spacers (2 sets of 1/2 inch)
42.5lb injectors
Walbro 255lph fuel pump
Rebuilt Garret T3T04e .60 trim
Tial Bov
35mm external wastegate
6 puck XTR clutch
Stainless steel clutch line from master to slave cylinder
Loner 666s headers with re-fabbed cross-over and down pipe
Loner 666s big intercooler (not sure brand)
OBD2 swap

How the engine looked when I bought it in 08' How it looks now (I took this picture 12/18/12) There's probably more that I'm forgetting. I by-passed the heater core and drilled the t-stat to help prevent bubbles (Superdave had this issue). I used a 2005 equinox thermostat housing because it was straight and not curved. I also put in a 2001+ starter motor because it's a lot smaller. And of course I used 2 step colder spark plugs. I will update as I go along and feel free to ask lots of questions. Also heat wrapped everything and a turbo blanket. And after I rebuilt the trans I painted it industrial gray for Jon .

More pics

Very nice. I have never seen or read anything about this car other than your sig.
Coolant bubbles?

Did I hear Industrial Grey?

Money pit Beretta wrote:Very nice. I have never seen or read anything about this car other than your sig.
Coolant bubbles?

Yes. A couple members on 60* had issues with this. *shrugs*. I just drilled a 1/8" hole in it and i've never had any issues.

Haha, yes Jon. I actually used "New Ford Gray" but it looked really close. I started my intakes and timing cover with that then re-sprayed with high temp "flat aluminum".

The gray I used was actually just dupli color 500* engine paint, not really listed as industrial, it just kinda had that look.

It's the same stuff then . Dupli color 500* engine enamel then I topped it off with "2000*" rust-oleum flat aluminum. The rust-oleum stuff has impressed me. I sprayed some exhaust flanges with it and it still looks good.

Well this gives me renewed hope that my 1" Nitrous spacers should fit without any hood issues At least if I use my 3100 large port upper intake, which I do plan on doing.

Nice Car looks really Good.

I like it! What's it run?

woody90gtz wrote:I like it! What's it run?

x2

And how much boost are you pushing?

Looks like a great setup. Have you tuned it yet?

It liiiives

Jon- the stock hood you do have to notch.. but I imagine yours will be fine. I had to notch one of the underside supports by the #1 cylinder. It contacts the plenum runner.

Woody: I haven't ran it yet. The local track closes down in August but the track conditions were terrible so I didn't want to run it. (also was waiting on a full tune.) But to give you an idea.. I would spin completely through 1st, 2nd, some of third, and a bit of forth. Never had it in WOT in 5th though. I deperately need some suspension/tire upgrades along with a LSD...

Speedy: I have a 6psi spring in it now, but i've hit 14 a few times. My plans are to use a 6 psi spring for DD and the 14 psi one at the track. But when running at the track I want to use a water/alcohol mix.

Geoff-I think that's your name...- I only have a very base tune right now. I got swamped with the semester (19 credits + 40 hours a week at work) so the car has been having to wait. I'm hoping next week I can install my wideband o2 and pyrometer then start working on a full tune.

I know of this car. I cannot believe it actually runs. If i look around i have very old photo's of this car where the engine bay is completely spray bombed.

Yep.. BJ spray bombed it.. I really wish he hadn't but oh well. Now the only parts of the car that look good are the engine, seats, and dash . It has always ran since I bought it from him. The ICM was toasted, he had a afr gauge that was grounding out the o2, also a bad battery and starter when I got it. The battery was relocated to the trunk with 8ish gauge wire.. and he ran a ground all the way to the engine.. So it didn't run well, but it ran.. I fixed everything and it was actually a pretty mean car. When I pulled off the heads/intakes to put Wot-Tech 3500 stuff in I found out that the 3400 heads and intakes were ported. I don't think BJ even knew about that. Must've been done by whoever owned the 99' grand am he got the engine from.

BJ's cardomain for it: http://www.cardomain.com/ride/531359/19 ... et-beretta

The indiglo overlay messed up the gauges (Even with the overlay removed they still didn't work). I also made the interior as stock as possible.. Removed/replaced a lot of parts he painted and such. It also came with the cavalier "checkerboard" wheels seen above. Now I'm using 90' Z24 wheels. I also have a couple sets of Z26 wheels from previous projects and a set of GTZ wheels.