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Reply #30 – June 27, 2011, 10:49:30 PM

I have 2 spares still together and one taken apart if you need one. Both are unknown condition, but I know one ran. The other I bought off brian rasey, but its been open for a couple years now. I know I'm still quite a distance from you, but if you don't have any luck getting one, I can probably let one go.

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Reply #31 – June 28, 2011, 06:45:13 AM

Quote from: gumby;362365

Chuck, I could cobble sumthin together with a DIS block, SJ crank, and N/A rods, but I put my one spare turbo shortblock into the Ranger....I think I have a lead on a complete 88 TC motor for cheap. Will find out Thurs. Then it will be decision time as I was just about to order up that cam from Bo. This makes a good physical opportunity, but not necessarily a good financial one since I will have to reallocate some of those funds for the used motor and new gaskets.....

I got rid of a bunch of 2.3T stuff a couple years ago, but I do have at least 1 turbo block and rotating assy here. I'd need to check them out to see their condition, but you're welcome to come by and check things out if you like.

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Reply #32 – June 28, 2011, 10:46:21 AM

I have a complete 2.3T out of my TC with 127K. It ran great when pulled. Unfortunately, I'm very far away from Indy.

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Reply #33 – June 28, 2011, 04:54:50 PM

Thanks for all the offers guys!
I am gonna try to get this complete motor Thursday and find out if it will work for me. If not it will at least become some spares. Gonna try to get this back on the road with plasti-gauge and lapping compound vs. ridge reamers and bore gauges.

I dont wanna hafta be breaking in new rings in the middle of the season.

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Reply #34 – July 09, 2011, 12:47:44 AM

I know its about a week late, but over the july 4th weekend, I ran a scca national tour at toledo express airport. 354 entrants - 9 in CP. I finished 6th even though I was down on power compared to the rest of the class on a power course. I was the only one not on 16" slicks(I have 18" hoosier A6's) and definately the only one without a V8, lol.

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Reply #35 – July 09, 2011, 06:34:21 PM

Rock on!

I am gonna miss an event tomorrow since the car is still waiting on parts :disappoin

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Reply #36 – July 19, 2011, 01:05:00 AM

Two weeks ago I set FTD at a corvette club autox in lorain, oh. I always think its funny because we've been autoxing with them for 2 years now and every time we go, there is never a corvette on top, and its not always my dad or I. This was my first ftd with this car though and made me very happy.

heres a video from fostoria this weekend. My best run, but unfortunately I didnt set the record like I wanted to. This course has records since it is a permanent course that doesn't change Still amost a full second off of it, but I did run almost a full second faster here than I did with my burgundy car.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=238817349471728&saved#!/video/video.php?v=238817349471728

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Reply #37 – July 19, 2011, 04:47:28 PM

That course looks fun. Was that tire rub I heard?

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Reply #38 – July 19, 2011, 06:06:26 PM

nope, that was the detroit trutrac complaining. I hate that diff. It won't do anything unless both wheels are at least touching the ground, lol. I guess I need to go to the locker or something else. We run that course again the last event this year.

BTW: did you see how far the tach went? It went farther at the corvette club autox

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Reply #39 – July 20, 2011, 05:37:21 PM

85-6 tach too. Thats alot for a stock bottom end!

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Reply #40 – July 20, 2011, 10:26:14 PM

hence the new engine build, lol.

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Reply #41 – August 21, 2011, 03:55:01 PM

Oh, it is good to be back!

Finished second in class by 0.03sec to a FF Cobra today. Spent my first few runs just relearning the car. The revs and boost come up so much quicker than before, I have to learn some new throttle control.

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Reply #42 – August 21, 2011, 09:12:25 PM

Congrats on getting back in the saddle! Ya thing you might have a slight disadvantage to a FF Cobra?

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Reply #43 – August 21, 2011, 09:27:34 PM

Quote from: 86T-bird;365748

Ya think you might have a slight disadvantage to a FF Cobra?

mmmmm, possibly. If you mean like the +1k lbs weight difference, or the wheelbase, or the trickflow H/C/I small block he says puts out 350hp, or the fact that he has more tire than me, then maybe so :hick:

With the IRS swap, I cannot run in the "normal" CP class where the fox chassis lives. Locally I get to play one step higher where the IRS Mustang Cobras would be. Nationally, I would likely hafta run in XP which is pretty open from a rules standpoint.

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Reply #44 – September 04, 2011, 08:39:23 PM

Day one of Super Weekend is done, and it was wet. Didnt rain a drop at my house all day, but pissed on us at the event site nearly the whole time. First heat got in 4 "dry" runs. Pavement was wet, but not raining. I was in the second heat....

Tomorrow should be dry all day.