The Daytona Project

[Jeff]

one of my favorite parts is still that valve cover yo valve cova brings all the girlz to da yardddd

looks great man. interesting way those mopars work, i've never seen a turbo oriented to sit on the end runners of a manifold like that. hows the software, is that vendor a pretty good tuner?

Thanks as always Scotty. The Valve Cover Version 2.0 is even hotter. Has a more candy finish. I can't wait to bust it out and put it on. The turbo is in a end collector, which is odd. Its really for the amount of space that there is behind the engine. A center collector, "TBI Header" manifold is often made from an early TBI manifold with a turbo flange welded on. It is supposed to spool quicker. But on the smaller cars you have to "massage" the firewall to make it fit, it is much longer away from the engine. As far as the ECU, it was a tune done to my specs. It will require some minor hardware tuning once the car is running but it should be ballparked about right. It is a 3-bar cal set to I think 18psi. If I were to hook it up with stock boost control that is what it would run at. But I am using manual boost control and will set it down around 14 to start out and take it as high as 22 or 25psi on the highside once I have a 5000 or so miles on it. FWD-P is supposed to be better at tuning 3-bars but not as good at 2-bar cals (under 14.4psi)

looking good Jeff, looks like it is coming together very well. Am I correct in seeing that your engine does not have a cross-flow head? Are you worried bout the turbo heating up the intake manifold and therefore increasing intake temps?
I'm with Scotty, that turbo orientation flips me out. On the 240, many of the turbo setups specify which way the turbo curls, but it always screws with my head when figuring it into a FWD setup.

Yeah, the head is "non-crossflow" and yes, it does make baby Jesus cry. But its ok, its an 8v powerhouse! As far as intake temps, no one else worried about it so I'm not gonna! Just stick a big ole' honkin front mount on her and go! I was thinking about making a heat sheild...but it will just be one more thing to rattle and piss me off. Also, I am torn on the LSD. Sylvia is with you, put it together and fuck with it later. But I don't want to end up like Travis, famous for my one wheel burnouts. The LSD I am looking at is a "Phantom Grip Type" LSD but supposedly has been redesigned by this guy specifically for our application and has a slightly different setup then a traditional phantom grip. It comes with the LSD block, two springs, new spider gears, and a new diff pin. The deal was $315 for the diff and a chrome-moly endplate for the transmission, which I read is a common failure item under heavy (drag racing) use. Anyway, I think it might be fun to drive it for awhile then take it apart and see how the insides are doing later. I always love an opportunity to tare apart a TD!

My vote on the LSD is to wait and do it over the winter. If you put it together now without the LSD we have to pull the tranny again hock:


-Nick

-who has pulled enough turbo dodge trannys for awhile

This argument is what gets me. I want to get the car back together and worry about it later. But the price deal, and the time, might not be there to do it in 5 months. Its not a big deal to pull a tranny out of a TD, as we both know. And the 5-speeds are even easier then the autos. But $300 isn't too much money...and I could very easily save for a month of paychecks and get it. But then I think about my loan coming due...and then that makes no sense. So its a tough decision.

Anyone else have thoughts on this?