all exhaust fixtures are done. Waiting on some material to come in and I will start building my new final pipes to go on. This weekend I order the last bits of material and when everything comes in it will all be final built and installed.
Going to be doing 3 dyno sessions
stock headers, stock intake mani, 2.25 y, 2.5 boost pipe to turbo NO CERAMIC COAT OR HEADER WRAP
then
new headers built by me, stock intake mani, 2.25 y, 2.5 boost pipe FULL CERMAIC COAT AND HEADER WRAP
then
with spool valve
the old billet intake will not be going on my car again. I am sponsoring my buds truck at Speedlab Creations (red turbo 5.3 lt engine)
He is already making nearly 800whp and has the supporting mods to really let it shine while i'm on a stocker engine and not really able to push thins past 650whp for a while
I am looking into other options for a intake manifold that can get the price down but not really happy with anything other than custom one offs. It is just to hard to compete in a mass produce market with Holleys new LT1 intake at $650.... I don't actually think it will fit the camaro6 and c7 vette though so I am looking at doing some reworking and porting service for the Holley intake to fit. Even still it really wont be necessary for people unless they are needing huge boost and extra fuel flow so I don't foresee much demand in it.
Sorry I won't post pictures of fixtures. That is in the lines of trade secrets... I will post pictures of finished products on the car soon though.
The spool valve is undergoing a little re-engineering due to a couple little design flaws it had. We are making the shaft smaller, the blade thinner and the ports were actually a tad small so it wasn't flowing as much as it should have. Also it had a slight bind near the full open position of the wastegate actuator so we are going to try a slight different angle to not hit this problem again.
Also like I said my day job I had went bye bye at the beginning of the month, I have a new day job making even more money and even easier work (sheet metal welder for a shop that does tables for hospitals and stuff... really easy work with a nice pay). Either way though it had me 1 week behind on bills and being a responsible adult I had to push the project car aside for a minute. Then after that my wife and I had our 2 year anniversary on the 16th of Sep so priorities first yet again...
All fab work should be finished and being installed around the end the month.
Around week 1-2 of next month the new headers will be installed and another dyno chart will pop out
then around week 3 the last dyno with all coating and wrapping done.
When everything is done around the end of Oct beginning of Nov I have to get a lift in my shop so I can do a c7 vette for a buddy who is letting me use his for product development. He is the organizer of the corvette club in Houston so he has a ton of guys lined up right after him
