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    Adding a 2.9l Whipple to my setup, have some questions

    Yes I know these engines can take 700 to 800 all day that I have seen on here. I thinki hes playing it save and thinking of engine life and longevity. He said any v8 can make 1000hp but the question is how may pulls will it last before a rod says hello. I ment valve springs. He did say it's...
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    Adding a 2.9l Whipple to my setup, have some questions

    Hey guys sorry for the delay. I did some pocking around with the fuel system and I was wrong. I have -8 fuel line from the hat to the filter, an adapter from the filter to the oem rail. that's it. no fitting bends either. No return line. Long story short the guy that built the motor installed it...
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    Adding a 2.9l Whipple to my setup, have some questions

    My setup,keep in mind this was all done back in 06. The setup has 24k on it. Engine has a oem block, stock pan, JE pistons with stock compression, all ARP fasteners were used, Manley rods, used the stock crank that was micro polished chamfered oil holes and balanced to a half a gram. Oem oil...
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    Need some input on my problems

    Well figured it out. Its the inner belt. The water pump it leaking when she's running and leaking onto the crank and rusting it when it site for a couple of days. I'm running the oem pump right now. Anything better out there these days? Seems like edelbrock makes one? Clutch was a stuck...
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    Need some input on my problems

    Need some helping. I have an idea what it could be but I'm hopping it's not. This is what happened and what I have done so fare. I was full out, I was going through the gears, I was in the top of 3rd when i lost all power and so one. The motor was still running. At first I though the motor blow...
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    Who here doesn't have a truck?

    I do not have a truck or suv and never will. I do have a house and I do work on it all the time. So I got a wagon to get most items. If I'm doing big projects I have the store deliver it. My wife also has a car and hates suvs also.
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    Want to Canceling Cable, but need input

    Need some info/lesson in what is out there and how to make it work and be cheaper. I do not watch much tv anymore, but my wife dose. She needs her dam shows, a list of channels she needs. cbs, nbc,fox, TLC, discovery, food network, bravo, usa. Right now I have cable and a amazon stick that I...
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    what belt tensioner are people running

    How this started. Got a new alternator and it's a smaller pulley. My setup 03 cobra, 2.8 rr sc pulley, 4 lb lower, metco 4 piece idlers, alternator 3.5. was using a 81 5/8" belt, no belt problems or slip. just got the j2 alternator that comes with a 3.2 alternator pulley, belt was to lose...
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    what belt tensioner are people running

    Hey guys like the title say, my dam oem tensioner bearings are going again. They seam to last about 10k. I do not know why I have so many dam problems with these bearings all the time. Is the oem the way to go or should I be running something else? Thanks
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    Magnapack mufflers With LT and H pipe how loud?

    Okay, How are the dynomax ultra flows?
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    Magnapack mufflers With LT and H pipe how loud?

    Like the title says guys, looking at running the Magnapack mufflers out the side. Right now I have Mac LT and a BBK O/R H pipe with Flowmaster 44 with dumps. I hate the sound. It sounds so muffled, two chambers s*** on these engines.
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    another alternator is dead

    Whats everybody using these days? The oem lasted me 2 years after my built motor was done back in 2007. I then got the PA Performance 130 Amp Alternator from lethal, it lasted 4 years. I then got an autozone one and it lasted 2 years and my last one was a rebuilt oem. its about 3 years old...
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    Never seen this one Metco Idler

    Yep, $275 plus shipping.
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    Never seen this one Metco Idler

    whipple still makes it, I talked to them, it will be here next week.
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    Never seen this one Metco Idler

    The bolts where tight, I go through the car before I put it away for the winter and I only drove it 600 miles this summer:( I did check all the pulley bolts and there all tight also. It dose have two mounting two. I was lucky it did not come through the hood, it went right to the drivers...
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    Never seen this one Metco Idler

    Opened my hood and saw this. What's wrong with this pictures? Back story was getting on the highway opened it up in 3rd, at the top of 3rd about 6k rpm the car changes engine and exhaust tones and I can hear the belt slipping and it felt like the car hit a wall, took my foot off the gas asap...
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    Need some help on what to do with my setup

    Hey guys update, called and talked all of them, they are all rated 500 to 600hp max, that's why I blow them out. So I said no more side exhaust. So I went with flowmaster thunder dumps and a off road h pipe. It sound so muffled I hate it! I was going to try flowmaster 10s. Any input on...
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    Terminator Swap PCM VIN change

    There is away around it that is legal. Mine is an 01 gt with a 03 cobra swap I did back in 06, I live in NY and pass fine. I tried to have it changed by my tuner sct or ford and they could not. My vins do not match. After talking to DMV a ton of times and figuring it out. When you get the car...
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    Hellcat burns to the ground after dealer replaces broken longblock - Video

    a gofundme and he has all those cars!! He dose not need money for a new engine. I can't stand people like that. We all like modding are cars maybe we should all have a gofundme page if so many people are giving free money away.
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    Need some help on what to do with my setup

    What I had Mac LH's Mac o/r H, flowermaster mufflers that did a 360 inside and came out the side in to a Roush tip. The muffler blow apart, to much power flowermaster said because it had to do a 360 turn. I had it on the car for like ten years though, plus they do not make that muffler anymore...
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    Corberu CR1 shaved?

    Like the title says guy, those of you that have the CR1 did you get them shaved or no? I'm going to order a set of wide and I can't decide to have them shaved or not. With there rails not shaved I think they would be at oem seat height. So shaved would drop them down 1". They say it dose not...
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    Ecu vin problems need some input

    never mind got it to pass. DMV are all a***** they have no idea what they are doing. After wasting time at DMV and hours on the phone I got a person that new what they were doing. You can have a different vin from the vin on the car to the PCM. They had it on file that they have seen I have...
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    Ecu vin problems need some input

    Maybe some god news, talked to my tuner and he said u can run a gt ecu with a cobra motor he can tune it but did not know what I needed to do with the harness if anything. Did anybody run a cobra motor and harness with a gt ecu? my path is off no I do not care about that. need some input, thanks
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    Ecu vin problems need some input

    They changed the inspection regulations in NY this year. I can not get my car to pass due to my vin on my car dose not match my vin on my ecu. Now I have a 2001 gt with a 03 cobra swap I did back in 05. the engine ecu and harness is an 03. I went to ford yesterday to try an change the vin on the...
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    Custom Side exhaust

    Looking more into it, it looks like a could fit the flowermaster outlaw mufflers then turn 90 and go out the side or I could use the slp loundmouth mufflers or slp loundmouth 2 mufflers. They all fit but anybody using any of these muffler and how do they sound? Or anybody using any of them and...

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