Well It took 2 days to do, but I got the swap done I'll have pics and more posted later tonight. The car is getting dyno tuned right now and I'll know the power soon List of parts that when on Ported PI heads PI intake, and stock pi cams Bassani Mid headers Custom made mid pipe C&L 80mm maf coolant mod and a dyno tune I did order a set of VT stage 1 cams, but I could not get them in time for the swap, and after reading all the bad stuff that happened with VT I cancelled my order. The last time I dyno'd my car I made around 230hp with a tune, and with out a tune I made 217hp. I'm hoping for big numbers!
Well I got the car dyno'd it made 250rwhp w/out a tune @5400rpm and 289rwtq @ 4200rpm. After Randy Haywood tuned my car it made 271rwhp@5600rpm and 301rwtq@4200. Thats right 21hp in just a tune! Thats for people that say you dont need a tune after a pi swap. And Randy told me theres more power to come if he had bumped the time up, maybe around 10 more rwhp there! The car @ 6000rpm made 80rwhp over the non-pi heads! The power was well over the setup I had before. I will post some pics soon!
The Only way to remove the engine 150,000 miles and 210psi on compression test and still had the cross hatching on the walls Non pi vs Pi Headers away! getting there! Ported heads Almost there! and My brother oh and the car is done
Nice job. I can't wait to get mine done. I got the heads and the intake is on the way. I think I am going to go with some different cams though.
thanks guys for all the comments and I would like to thank my brother for helping me get all of the stuff done and Randy Haywood for doing what he does best, Tuning cars!
well I got alot of the parts from ebay, heads, headers, and other parts heads w/ cams $250 Ebay Pi intake $80 Ebay c&l maf $0 Gift headers $350 Ebay head change kit $100 Misc. Gaskets $190 Oil/coolent/spark plugs $75 tune $150 Misc. parts $100 Total cost $1295 Not too bad for 80+ hp @6000rpm and 55 peak hp, all at the rear wheels and is always there. Plus like I said before, theres still room for power in the tune still. I still think its pretty cheap to go n/a on a non-pi car over buying a new or used blower. IF I got the cams ($500 bucks) I would have been well over 300hp and I havent see too many blown non-pi 2v do it any cheaper. I've seen some blown non-pi's make as much as I'm making n/a! If you do it right you can make some power n/a.
