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Twin Turbo Cold Side
SNL has a very good fabricator who worked to bring the Twin Turbo setup together. The pictures below represent his work on the cold side. I think he did a great job. Understand his restraint was that we wouldn’t move … Continue reading
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Twin Turbo Hotside Exhaust
Trying to shed a little light on the downpipe hook up to the exhaust. The three inch downpipes come off the turbos and dump to the traditional exit for the headers. There we mate the custom fabricated off road mid … Continue reading
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Ethyl Update
SNL is running it right down to the final few things that need done. There are a few oddes and ends that need to be cleaned up and they need to replumb the Co2 System for the Boost Controller. Still … Continue reading
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Kellers in Dallas
Keller’s Drive in off Northeast Highway in Dallas is one of the top motorsports cruise scene spots on weekends in North Texas. Any given Saturday night will bring drag cars, street racers, classics, antigues and more than a fair share … Continue reading
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The car I really wanted?
In 1964-65 Alan Hicks had the baddest 55 Chevrolet in Knoxville Tennessee. He rebuilt the 327 Hi performance motor in Mr. Kelley’s Auto shop and even let some of us lower class members touch the motor. It was an awesome … Continue reading
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Harrop 2300 Supercharger
We obtained the LQ9 FI Shortblock from Texas Speed with the full intention of putting an 88-94 mm Borg Warner Turbocharger on it. Loyd Mead purchased a Harrop 2300 Supercharger kit and put it on his 2004 GTO. It was … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004 GTO, Ethyl, Harrop HVT 2300, LQ9, SNL Performance, wrp
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GForce1320 Engineering Spool
We went to the GForce1320 Spool once we climbed about 800 rwhp. We were thinking the OEM LSD was probably getting near the end of its useful life. We went from the 3.91 gears in the prespool setup to standard … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004 GTO, 33 spline spool, Coilover, CVS, Ethyl, GForce1320, GTO, Hubs, QA-1, SNL Performance, spool, stubs, wrp
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GTO OEM Dana
The DANA OEM rear end in my GTO was a serviceable and reliable unit that held everything I threw at it for 90,000 miles. In fact, I have broken more on the Ford 9″ than I did on the DANA. … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004 GTO, Ethyl, Ford 9 Inch, GForce1320, GTO, SNL Performance, Strange S-Trac, Wavetrac, wrp
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Battery Relocate
We came across the decision to relocate the battery when we put the electric water pump in. The pump would mount beneath the batter and it just seemed to be too big a deal to try to deal with all … Continue reading
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The LSx Build
For many years my dream was to have a really solid LSx based motor. I really wanted to take advantage of the improvements in the LSx design, including the 6 bolt heads. We’ve been nursing the ETP 245 cc Cathedral … Continue reading
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