Thats a bummer, and look forward to seeing the car rise back up with the new motor. How will your blower on PI heads will work thoughI though the NPI and PI have different ports?
If you don't mind sharing, who was the tuner?
It will work fine on the PI heads. Lots of guys on the TCCoA board have done it. The only difference is the water jacket port. It's shaped slightly different on one corner, so I'll either have to have part of the blower port welded up or just use some RTV similar to when putting a PI intake on NPI heads.
I don't want it to turn into a bashing, but it was Fastlane Motorsports down in Benson, NC. I simply think there wasn't enough time spent on my most recent tune. I had/have a pretty unique setup, with the non-intercooled blower, methanol, cams, auto tranny, etc., that requires a little more attention to detail than your typical supercharged 4.6. I can't complain much because the car ran freakin' great for a year and a half on their tune, and laid down some dang impressive times for the mods.
AND, it's very possible that the motor was already hurt before the cams/new tune/most recent track event, and that one little bit of detonation was just the straw that broke the camel's back. I suspect we'll never know.
Since the objective is to not spend any more money than I have to, I'll probably just retard it back the couple of degrees.
What kind of RPM are the stock springs good for with those cams? I'm thinking with the PI heads, the optimum shift points will be up in the 6300 range, but I wasn't sure if the valvetrain was good for that or not.
And yes, it seems it may have picked up 3 mph in the 1/8 on a hurt motor, haha.
amnit:
May I suggest a new tuner, Piedmont Customs Motorsports, 10 minutes from NC State. 5 minutes from where I am located, without traffic. They are on Facebook. Give them a ring. Did my valve-job, them guys are "sick" with Mustangs. Trust me.
That's who I'm planning on going to. A good friend of mine with a nitrous '01 Bullitt has had a lot of work done there, and he has had nothing but great things to say about PCM. It's also where tank567 has his tuning done, and where his brother works. I've been up there a few times, and have been impressed by those guys each time.
And in case you didn't know, there is a dyno day later this month on the 29th at PCM if you are interested in going. I originally planned on throwing my car on the rollers again, but I very seriously doubt I'll have it back together by then. I'll be there either way.
