Best time as of 4-27-04:  10.17 @ 136

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Current Combo:

Turbo System:
ITS Stage II kit T3/T4 hybrids

Engine and Management System:
Stock Shortblock, stock ECU

Induction and Fuel:  
>Box stock twisted wedge heads and Trickflow intake
Stock fuel tank, pickup, lines, rails, etc
255lph in-tank and inline pump
42# injectors
Pro-M 75
65mm Accufab throttle body
Aeromotive regulator

Ignition and Exhaust: 
MSD 6a box
Dynomax exhaust w/ chrome 2 1/2" pipes

Tranny and rear:
Fully manual Lentech AOD
Stock rear end with 3.27 gears

Front Suspension: 
D&D coilovers
Strange 10-ways

Rear Suspension: 
Competition Engineering 3-ways
X2C Boxer ST upper and lowers

Tires and rims: 
17X8 99 Cobra wheels I had polished w/ Falken 255/40/17's
15X7 v6 mustang wheels with 26" tires to toss on for racing - no skinnies.

Body:
Spies Hecker Bimini Blue paint
Cervinis 3" cowl hood
Saleen wing

Future plans:
To coordinate a good 60' and clean pass all in one run giving a 9 second timeslip on the stock '93 shortblock, rearend, fuel system, and computer.

Background:
I originally bought this car with a bone stock longblock in it back in 2000. The car already had a few bolt-ons uch as gears and exhaust when I purchased it. I then put a nitrous kit on it (150 shot) that I had laying around from a previous car. Next was a pair of ported GT-40's, alphabet cam, Edelbrock Performer RPM intake, tb, mass air, etc. I decided to change things up after about 6 months and put a Vortech S-trim on it. I kept it relatively mild with a tune that made 435RWHP on pump gas and 10#'s of boost. I eventually pullied it down to 14#'s putting it in the 475RWHP range but never retuned with a wideband and ended up blowing several sets of head gaskets. I mainly just enjoyed showing the car a little and just driving it. I eventually decided to sell the car and in doing so, came out extremely well since pretty much all the parts were bought used and I had got an excellent deal on the car to begin with when I purchased it. So, I walked away with several thousand dollars more than I had in it.

I turned around and bought a '93 GT that already had a tremec 3550, twisted wedge heads, track heat intake, etc. I already knew that I wanted to try a turbo kit this time since I had done a supercharger and nitrous already. I put an ITS stage II kit on it which left me some room to grow which is what I wanted. I enjoyed the car for about 6 months when the opportunity arrived to purchase back my '92 LX just the way I had sold it with only 1300 more miles on it for an unbelievable amount of money. It was such a good deal that I felt bad for buying it back so cheap but since the owner had to sell it, I went and picked it up. It was at this point that it clicked - I liked the looks of my '92 LX and the motor/turbo setup of my '93 GT. So, I took the complete longblock with turbo kit out of my GT and put it into my '92 LX. I then parted out the blower motor and put a mostly stock one back in the GT eventually selling it (that's another story though). In the end, I came out exceptionally well money-wise from the whole trade and the result was the power adder I liked with the car I liked. It was around this time that I made a very nice water cooling kit for the turbos using all Aeroquip anodized fittings and -6 braided steel line. It turned out extremely nice but isn't pictured on here because I made it shortly after the motor swap/picture was taken. Initially, I was very apprehensive about putting any real power to the '93 shortblock from the popular opinion about the hypereutectic motors. But, it had done pretty well so far while in my GT. So, I decided to take it to a
buddy and do some tuning on the dyno with the wideband. I came away with 530RWHP and 551RWTQ - this is now my low boost setting. It no longer has the stick in it but if it did, with it's weight I'd estimate it to be about
610-620RWHP. Anyways, I eventually went to the track and the very first time ever on slicks down the 1/4 (not knowing what to expect), it ran a 10.73 @ 130.32 MPH. I was surprised the 110,000+ mile shortblock was still holding up so well because it had been making substantial power for about a year to a year and a half at this point. I then really turned up the boost to get an idea of what it was capable of and the car clicked off a spinning 10.35 @ 136.48 MPH!! Realizing this is a high 9 second mph, it became my goal to hit that ET to match the mph. I have since dialed in the suspension a little more but incurred a boost leak problem that trip to the track which netted a 10.39 @ 130.62 MPH but with a 1.47 60'! Noticing the car didn't seem to be pulling hard, I glanced at the boost gauge and it was down substantially from where it should be - hence the drop in mph. I was still excited about the 60' considering it's a stock rear end with 3.27's, I can still leave a lot harder, it has heavy 17's on the front, and some little v6 wheels on the back with a 26" tire.

So, I've had all the elements I need for a 9 second pass - a 1.4x 60', 135-136mph trap speed (actually, it's been faster than this), and a clean/straight pass, and no boost leaks. I just haven't been able to coordinate it all into the same pass. With all the bugs worked out and the suspension now working well, it should go a 9.9x still using the stock fuel system, stock rear end, stock computer with no tuning aid, and stock hypereutectic shortblock. We'll see...

Update 12-29-03:  Barry just split his stock block in half.  Every other part of the engine was fine, other than the split block!