more air!!
you have a great foundation for high 12s. i would definitely have magnumpowers perform a "magnaport II" to your existing blower!! also purchase their inlet plenum as well as their FMIC, you would most likely see a 70+ RWHP gain from mods like that. hopefully you have atleast a 75mm TB and larger MAF. you have enough fuel, so that wouldnt be a problem, DO NOT get a chip, if anything you might want to have yur car tuned somewhere on a dyno and possibly a custom chip burned for you... but thats down the road, our MN12 computers are pretty good. i would really recomend solid rubber bushings in the rear suspension to help with wheel hop and you will need drag radials, you might as well buy a couple cheap little 15" rims and slap some big meats on em for the track. american racing wagon wheels or something, who cares what the rear wheels look like when yur getting 60' times under 1.8 in a SC for God's sake... right? just for the hell of it, if you got the money try DEI and see if you can get a cryo cooler for you FMIC or your existing stock intercooler if you want to save some money in the mean time, that thing will basically FREEZE the while IC with CO2 and will help the cooling efficiency of our stock poopy intercoolers ALOT and should only run around $400 for a kit, but still the FMIC is much better, with dual push/pull fans too. i would recomend replacing your hyper pistons with forged ones, they will be a lot stronger and handle the boost pressure of a 400hp motor better then the hypers. while you are doing that you might want to get the MORANA racing windagetray/main girdle to tighten up yur bottom end and get that baby baleneced perfectly, you'll be able to REV the hell out of yur motor without any worries..higher revs turns that SC faster = more boost pressure!!
that would be a pretty good direction to run 12s.... 13s shouldnt be a problem at all. I am going to think about looking into ceramic coatings when i rebuild my motor. everything forged, lightned, balenced and ceramic coated, including the valves, combustion chambers, pistons, crank... everything. there is a different coating for each part of the motor, basically that will destroy heat and force it no where else but right out the exaust... thats when you will need ceramic coated headers, mid- or long tubes, i would go long tubes. wouldnt you like to be able to pop your hood and touch your motor without getting burned... yes... i would. also your oil would look better longer...hopefully you run only synthetic already for every fluid possible. or amsoil. take a look at nascar motors and try to incorporate some of the things they have done with their motors into yours. a motor is a motor, they just come in different sizes, but you can utilize a lot of the same technology in most of em. check out motorheads in LaGrange, Ohio if you want some of this stuff done, they are pretty good at what they do. 2 of my best friends work there. 440.458.4111 Jim Wright is the owner. they would have some fun with the job. if you want any more information e-mail me and i can see what kind of info i can get for you. or just call them. good luck V8 hunting... see you in
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