Night Shifter 00GT build progress thread...take 2

[BurningRubber]

Sounds great man, awesome progress.

As far as the sound of the cams, they will sound the way they do now for as long as they're on the car. There's no real "break in" on a mod motor for cams. The Prochamber could be making them a little less aggressive, but overall they are a mild sounding cam.

 

[Night Shifter]

thanks man... thanks for the info...hopefully with a tune and a non restrictive intake mani it'll mkae it sounds just a tad better...but oh well...i guess itll be more fun beating cars at the track if they cant tell i have cams

 

[mazen189]

dude, that car sounds soo mean. I am totally suprised how fast n up you got her going. I thought this was goign to be a long progress thread. Did basically take care of all the labor?

 

[Night Shifter]

thanks mazen!

the car has been down since october but the build only took about 3 weeks because i had an awesome hook up..my step dads friend is an all ford guy and builds sick ass mustangs and lightnings so he helped me the whole way through the build...so basically there was always at least 1 person working on something on the car...there was only a few days where the car just sat... like when i had to wait on the damn cam gears and when i was sick...man im glad it didnt take any longer..

ill still be posting stuff on this build thread cause i still have a lot to do..im gonna be throwing a ton on suspension on this car and i got a few other things up my sleeve that will come out in the next couple weeks/months

 

[BlackStang03]

sounds awesome man!

 

[Night Shifter]

thank you sir

 

[midnightdriver]

Any dyno #'s coming ? Really curious about those cams

 

[Night Shifter]

ill be dynoing it once i get this intake mani thats on the car off and and once i put about 1000 miles on the motor...trying to break it in first

 

[Night Shifter]

out of neccessity i just had to swap out c.o.p's... i called ford they wanted $92.58 each for the motorcraft ones...fuuuggg that..so i looked up what we had in stock at work and all we had in my store were the crappy accels...really didnt want to buy them but it was either get them for $11 a peice or wait a really long time for msd's or wome weapon x's...id rather have went with weapon x but like i said it was out of neccessity so i got the accels...

i was scared at first of having them and the second one i pulled out of the box i had to fix the prongs to get them to plug into the harness and i really hate yellow things..but i plugged them in, they dont look too bad and they actually are working quite well... so far...

took these randomly and kinda liked how they looked

 

[BurningRubber]

I have heard a mix of reviews on the Accells. How did you get them for $11 a piece?!? I this your hookup price, or is that some kind of insane sale price? lol.

Either way, glad it's still doing good... engine bay looks nice!

 

[Night Shifter]

I have heard a mix of reviews on the Accells. How did you get them for $11 a piece?!? I this your hookup price, or is that some kind of insane sale price? lol.

Either way, glad it's still doing good... engine bay looks nice!

i get insane discount prices...thats really the only reason i got them..and thanks

the review i heard too were leaning towards the negative and 4 out of 5 times we sell them to someone they end up having to bring at least 1 coil back from them being bad...for once i was lucky and didnt have something go bad

 

[Winters98GT]

Your car looks so sweet and sounds great!

How does it drive with the new cams? Any idle/surge issues?

 

[Night Shifter]

thanks man

it drives ok..before the new c.o.p's i was getting a lot of stumbling while cruising/going through gears.. now it barely does it and when it does its very minimal...if i try and baby the car it actually drives kinda crappy...if i put a little foot into it it drives amazing! Idles great too

cant wait to get a tune and get the stumbling issues worked out

 

[Night Shifter]

depending on how busy we are today i might be doing a partial run on the dyno..im being taught how to use it so my car is being the guinea pig..i wont be going all out due to no cam tune yet but it should give me an idea of what i can make

what do you all think i will make after the tune?

 

[mikevm78]

Nice to see it coming together AB FTW.

Im running the accel coil packs as well, no issues. YET. haha

 

[Night Shifter]

Nice to see it coming together AB FTW.

Im running the accel coil packs as well, no issues. YET. haha

thanks man!

yeah im waiting on the YET part to hit me lol

 

[ninjastang125]

I think with a tune you should have atleast 300 at the wheels

 

[mikevm78]

I think with a tune you should have atleast 300 at the wheels

I agree.

 

[Night Shifter]

started a little project the other day..now that i have to take the interstate to work my hood has been shaking a lot more at highway speeds and being that it was scaring the hell outa me and i dont feel like buying a new winshied i bought some hood pins...and put them in... REVERSE!!!!!!

took a little bit to figure out how to do it with the stock grill but i got it done...had to cut the hood pin down to a shorter size as well too...it looked retarded at first with the bolt as long as it was but now that i resized the bolt it looks better.. i only have one in at the moment..wanted to get it right before i started the other side..im gonna sand the bolts down and paint them black to try and make them less noticeable too

couple pics before i cut the bolt

the hole i had to drill

shortened bolt

steaalthy, cant even see it

if i didnt tell you about it, you'd never know it was there...i attached the lanyard to the pin too to help pull the pin out better...might be a strange ass idea but at least it kept me from having to put the pins through the top of the hood....i really dislike that look a lot

suspension is up next..starting to get all that stuff in my hands!

 

[Night Shifter]

just a little update

getting my car tuned by pat at sniper on wed. Any guesses on what ill put down?

also my suspension is all starting to come in. as of right now in my possession are

MM swaybar endlinks(front)
Swaybar bushings(front)
Steeda X2 balljoints
Steeda bumpsteer
MM hypercoil springs for coilovers in the front, 475lb


on the way

MM sport front coilover kit (MM sport strut for coilovers)

debating on MM road race LCA's and going coilover in the rear or just sticking with the spring and shock set up with adj. LCA's.. what you all think

soon to be ordered will be tubular A arms as well..ill post pics up later tonight when i get home if its not still pouring outside