After a 2+ year absence ** Green ******* is comin back to life. To explain where I've been I think a little background is required. This car has always been special and I am the original owner. It was sporting a 2.5 stroker motor with a one-off Garrett GT35R with a .82 hot side turbine encased in a .63 housing and built by Jim LaTour of the old TEC. I had an issue with a plug coming apart in #4. It seems that with my AEM CDI ignition system matched with the AEM EMS, I couldn't use the old F5DP0Rs. I had to use regular copper plugs and that's what Dave Jones had installed. I just thought that I'd try a brand new set of the old style plugs I had but without checking with Dave. I was on a SuperFlow 880 AWD dyno that is significantly more conservative than the Mustang we had been using. The car put down 435hp/509tq at 16 lbs of boost and we were doing progressive runs with higher boost each time to baseline and then go back and use the NOS FMIC chiller. Well, on the 2nd pull something went wrong at about 4500 rpm. The plug on #4 lost itself, not from detonation, but failure. It seems that my CDI is too powerful for these plugs. I've seen lots pf examples of detonation eaten plugs and this was nothing like that at all. It just blew the end off the plug and that end went into the combustion chamber, rattled around the valves, then out an exhaust valve where it did a BIG number on my custom GT35R. At the end of the day, I had shelled the head, one piston/cylinder and one very special turbo.
This is not the first engine I have blown but this was particularily hard to swallow because the car was running soo good and it had just been down for a little over a year from its last rebuild. What I decided to do was look upon this as an opportunity rather than defeat. I then decided with Dave Jones to build the ultimate S-car and that is where this story is going. About the only things left over from that old motor were the short stroker crank and the rods. We ended up swapping out the rods for Carrillos for more weight savings. I'll continue this story as time permits. I'm on vacation in Kauai and I have a little time on my hands so I thought this would be a good time to start.
This is not the first engine I have blown but this was particularily hard to swallow because the car was running soo good and it had just been down for a little over a year from its last rebuild. What I decided to do was look upon this as an opportunity rather than defeat. I then decided with Dave Jones to build the ultimate S-car and that is where this story is going. About the only things left over from that old motor were the short stroker crank and the rods. We ended up swapping out the rods for Carrillos for more weight savings. I'll continue this story as time permits. I'm on vacation in Kauai and I have a little time on my hands so I thought this would be a good time to start.