FRCE_FED 2000 3.8l single turbo build

[murph]

I have a few posts in the blower section, wheel section about particular questions i had but thought i would start this incase anyone is interested..

she is a built 3.8l mild ported upper and lower/ stock heads/ modified MAC shorty's flipped to go forward/ 62mm china charger rebuilt with garrett wheel and bearings from turbo desiel injection in indy/ running 15psi with a 45mm wastegate/ 60lb injectors/ 8.8 fox rear end with 3.73's/ running a 315/35/17 nitto 555r for the street/ QA1 tubular fron suspension/

walkaround idle + new BBS wheels powdercoated matte black:

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcGGng5J-zM"]YouTube - ‪3.8l single turbo mustang walkaround‬‏[/nomedia]

had to get rid of the qa1 lower control arm b/c it was not allowing me to turn so i modified the stock lower control arm and put new urathane bushings in it.

decided to stay returnless fuel sustem, ordered 2 ford GT pumps, a dual FPDM setup from west coast mustangs WestCoastMustangs.com (really happy how the wiring kit came and would recommend to all to check him out)

Tank removed to prepare for the new system

Dual FPDM wired:

Dual FPDM installed:

Stock trunk:

Pulled the stock tank 3 times this month so decided to make a little access panel. not professional quality lol cut with a cutoff wheel but does the job !!

New Feed Line -8AN Y'd to dual -6 AN into the fuel rail.

 

[bleedout]

Looks like a nice set up and attention to detail man. You should post a video of it. When and where are you getting it dyno tuned? Seems to me that turbo kits are getting much more affordable these days and are great power adders. If i had the extra budget id love to turbo my 2v GT.

 

[murph]

thanks man, there is an idle and walkaround vid up top but ill post another one when its running hopefully this week

 

[murph]

battery box installed, all electrical connections are all set except the fuel hat which will be here on wednesday.

I tested the new secondary fuel pump circuit and it was a tenth of a volt off of the primary circuit. so time to get the fuel hat on and time to test once the car is running.

more to come!

 

[murph]

Looks like a nice set up and attention to detail man. You should post a video of it. When and where are you getting it dyno tuned? Seems to me that turbo kits are getting much more affordable these days and are great power adders. If i had the extra budget id love to turbo my 2v GT.

Well funny story, i payed 2 tuners for a dyno tune and one of them blew up the car... i have since purchased the sct prp tuning package and with the help of justin at VMP I have been getting this thing closer and closer to running great. I made the turbo kit as the kits to purchase were out of my price range.

 

[AntiHeightPunk]

any pictures of those wheels with tires installed?

 

[murph]

any pictures of those wheels with tires installed?

just the video in the 1st post with a walk around... im sure ill get more soon when she is back on the road

 

[DaBigBone]

Looks good

 

[murph]

Basket modified for the Fore fuel hat

left over parts

Fore hat installed on the tank

Fore hat installed in the car

I double checked the wiring and the pumps before putting everything together and when we 1st started the car it didnt sound right. had a puffing noise comming out of the exhaust sounded like a stock v6 with no cam (very sick) Im going to verify the wiring is correct and see if i can narrow down whats causing this

 

[murph]

no updates for a while, my bad..

We did get the car running and can only assume it was the disaster of step-down fittings that caused the issue from the -8AN line to the factory rail.

A buddy of mine got a TIG welder and some stainless steel piping so we decided over the winter to do a complete overhaul of the turbo setup. I am in love with this new setup as I can get to and work on EVERYTHING!

Ill try to keep an order to this but ill copy everything from my build from another site:

 

[murph]

 

[murph]

FUEL FITTINGS I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER:

what a huge pain in the ass:

but i like it

 

[murph]

some new short vids of her running again! idle is still all kinds of pissed off but she runs good other than that

REV to limiter
http://youtube.com/v/QHBstcaqZbo

MULTI rev
http://youtube.com/v/97g1FeCxNog

PASSENGER WALK AROUND
http://youtube.com/v/zWMFyLTySbY

DRIVER SIDE STILL VID
http://youtube.com/v/b5Pbn0sOU8Q

 

[murph]

car finally got tuned by bob kurgan. we had a clutch issue and the clutch i bought years ago is only rated for 350fpt

The car only put down 410hp and 380fpt we were loosing torque at 4200rpm with the combination of the car blowing off intercooler pipes on every pull we were unable to get a good run. Im buying a new clutch and will be taking the car down to GA so Bob and do a final tune.

all pulls were are showing 20-21psi so we should be able to hit 550rwhp by 6k :beer:

 

[Bimmer1999]

man that sounds like a gnarly v6. Its going to surprise some people for sure.

 

[LilRoush]

What do you have in it for a bottom end?

 

[murph]

Thanks Bimmer..

LilRoush - its got forged pistons/rods (ill have to dig to find the brand if needed) with a stock 3.8l supercoupe crank

 

[spike_africa]

**** yeah that's awesome.

 

[murph]

thanks guys, hopefully i will get the clutch replaced, tune checked, and finally get a full pass down a track. its been a really long time!

 

[murph]

Came across a boost leak last week and had no idea where it came from. I took the wastegate ref line off and bam staring me in the face! she is fixed and back up to running 100% I still need to buy and install a clutch...

also got the ass end lowered to match the front. Im still on the fence on lowering more and bringing the from coilovers down?? thoughts?