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Originally Posted by L78toLT1
Hey drsag, glad to see that you have apparently resolved your starter/fuse issue. I'm following pretty much in your footsteps - ordered the balance of Ted Jannetty's street brawler package last week. I went with the smooth idle cam and hope i don't regret it, your car sounds sweet, not nearly as agressive as most of the stage 1 or 2 NA cams i have heard. Did you go with 1 7/8 or 2" headers? I noticed that the street brawler package as described on Ted's website uses 1 7/8. I have the kooks 1 7/8 and do not plan on swapping them out but i would have thought that, starting from scratch, 2" would be a better choice.
My current dilemma is whether or not to do pistons or pistons/rods. I'm just gathering parts at this stage, this will be my winter project.
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I went with 1 7/8 Kooks headers. I took guidance from others on the forum about problems hitting the drive shaft with the 2in setup. Also, I will be stopping between 750-800whp, so I don’t think the difference will not matter. If I had planned to go over 1000whp, I probably would have done more to figure out the 2in header option.
I would definitely go with the rod and piston setup. Ted has that setup now, but when I ordered he had pistons only. In fact, I was just talking to my mechanic and we are looking at the next round of mods, which will include forged rods.
Unfortunately, when I found out that JRE had the piston/rod combo my car was already delivered to the shop and I couldn’t get the rods in time. It’s my only regret so far.
If I had the forged rods, I would look at options to go up to 13psi. . .with just pistons, I am going to hold steady at 11psi. On the street, that means 750whp is where I stop. I will still get a track tune to run on race fuel...so I can run closer to 850whp. As I see it, on the street, there is no difference.