New Here-My E30/5.0/GT45/C4

[IronFreak]

Thats not a bad deal, a guy on here wanted to rent one for $100 a week, I thought that was steep.

[IronFreak]

OP....If you rent the isky groove-o-matic, you can save yourself some money and not buy the Cometic MLS .051" Headgaskets and go with a basic felpro or something

[MonsterE30]

Ehh. Its alright. I dont wanna score the new twisted wedge heads. Plus i have the option of having them o-ringed straight from trick flow. So it'd save time and money lol.

[IronFreak]

Yeah, the isky is made for the block. I'm not even sure you could use it on the heads the way its designed.

[MonsterE30]

Shows you how much knowledge i have about it haha.

[IronFreak]

Regardless of what you do, that's going to be insane when its all back together. I'm building mine to accommodate smaller turbo(s)......yes that's plural. But the more I talk to people I don't know, for what I want to use it for that might even be to much! That thing sounds so mean when it spools hahaha

[evandael]

i keep going back to the first post just to listen to that turbo spool..


also, tell me more about that transmission. i just google searched 'hughes c4 trans' and saw it has a hybrid valve body... how's that work? like how do you manually select gears?

[IronFreak]

The valve body is re-valved so you can use a "slap" or ratchet shifter to manual shift through the gears. Very common in drag racing. I had a chevy 383 stroker with a th-350 transmission and modified valve body so I could do the same thing. About as close to a manual as you can get without a clutch. They're lots of fun!

[evandael]

so it's still a clutchless torque-converter based transmission?


that actually seems really fun (and smooth) especially in something with a huge turbo V8

[MonsterE30]

Its a reverse valve body c4 with a hughes race rebuild in it. Ive got the hurst billet pistol grip in it to manually change gears. Park is all the way forward, pull back one time to go in reverse, again for neutral, then back to engage first. Once in first the shifter locks itself as a safety so without pulling the handle you cant go back into neutral or reverse. But literally its just pulling back each time to change gears.

[MonsterE30]

Almost the same thing, but i pull back each time to shift (hence reverse valve body ) whereas this guy pushes forward.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_2O9vbp0tc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Mako18]

Matte white could look quite good and be a good compromise.

Funny you say this.....

[Mako18]

Regardless of what you do, that's going to be insane when its all back together. I'm building mine to accommodate smaller turbo(s)......yes that's plural. But the more I talk to people I don't know, for what I want to use it for that might even be to much! That thing sounds so mean when it spools hahaha

One thing to remember is you will not need (or be able to use) the massive low end torque the ttv8 will give you from my experience a 60mm turbo will give you great response and plenty of top end (keep the 302 below 6000 rpm) just use a good electronic boost controller on a decent single 60mm turbo even the on3 turbos guys seem to like em when on a budget. you will/can make enough power with a stock 302 with a turbo to crack it like an egg, reality is there is no need for heads, cam, intake, nothing...just hardware, good gaskets, proper fueling and a solid tune no different then the bmw engines except these things can't survive as long in that 600whp range but then again 500hp is cheap with a turbo 302......

I personally want to mimic the bmw's power delivery with my turbo 302. strong n/a lowend up to 2400-2800 (check, 302 makes nice low end hp/tq, especially my exlorer engine/cam) and then the turbo can be brought on from there, then its a matter of how much you can slap to it till 6k.

[IronFreak]

That is a very good point. I have been doing research on my motor (94 F-150) and I found that it actually flows better (intake to heads) then the 5.0 rollers out of the mustangs.
One of the only reasons I was thinking heads was to drop a little weight in the front. I know the weight distribution is different from the m20 as you are placing 2 more cylinders behind the front axle. But the stock ratio of 53f/47r is still going to change.
I did have the thought of moving the whole motor back some more. I'm a fabricator by trade (before I became an office jockey) so I have all the cool toys for steel fabrication in the garage. modify the firewall a but the get the distribution of weight further back would help the iron block/heads. PLUS, E7 heads with a little home porting can take a pounding from boost. Look at turboforums.com in the stock block chronicles, there are guys pushing 16-20lbs. of boost through them!

[MonsterE30]

*update* so the interior is all ripped out, cleaning it out, and then getting ready to put the new sport interior. and since now I have no room for a headlight on the right side, went to good ole' autozone and bought some $25 round LED lights. fabbed up a little aluminum plate to bolt the new el'cheapo light too. the only reason for buying them though is just to barely squeak by as "legal" and I mean barely. its pretty much there just to look like a headlight so I don't get pulled over as much lol.