Stroker Short Block Project with Centri SC

Install everything and the blower Friday night, tune it Saturday, and blow the tires off Sunday...


Builder Of Badassery
 
Lol. I like how you think! My garage pass will be revoked indefinitely if I keep spending too much time on the car. Definitely not happening in the next two weekends.


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Jeronimojc said:
Lol. I like how you think! My garage pass will be revoked indefinitely if I keep spending too much time on the car. Definitely not happening in the next two weekends.


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Trust me, after enough time out there she will start to enjoy the quiet without you. My old lady eggs me on to mod whatever may be out there. Don't care if it's the car, lawn mower, or polishing the tool box or the neighbors wife, just go do something! :)

26+ years and three kids buys you that luxury!


Builder Of Badassery
 
Good point, maybe she'll kick me out to the garage soon. I'll see if I can help make that happen.


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My wife is like, "Honey, did you order more parts in?" And I've only been working on cosmetics. I can only imagine the look on her face when there is an 5.0 S/C Aluminator Block sitting in our living room... :lol:


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Invader said:
Looks Awesome! BTW JC....
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HeavyMetalMerc said:
sweet progress
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Thanks guys!

I finally started purchasing the last few parts (intercooler, piping, BOV, etc). Mounting the intercooler was actually much easier than I had expected. It fit very nicely behind the bumper, but had no idea what I was going to do to support it. I was trying to avoid welding of any kind. I ended up finding a couple of Simpson StrongTie 4x4 framing brackets that required a bit of moding and worked out fairly well. In fact, one of the holes in the bracket lined up perfectly with a frame bolt on the car. All I had to do was enlarge the hole, and use the existing bolt and nut! I used another hole on the bracket to screw a sheet metal screw to the frame of the car. Here are a few pictures.

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Next I started playing with intercooler piping. The CXRacing piping kit I bought comes with two ‘U’ shaped pipes. I had hoped the distance between the legs of these 'U' sections was large enough to go from the intercooler to the engine bay side of the radiator. No such luck. It tried heating and bending one of the ‘U’ sections to open it up, but didn’t get too far. So I ended up cutting the ‘U’ to fit. Below are some pictures of the passenger side. I think I’ll end up welding the BOV fitting to the large 90 degree elbow that wraps around the radiator frame.

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Speaking of BOVs, I decided to go with a 38.5mm Tial QRJ (got it for under $193). This is really a bypass valve. This newer model has a larger outlet than the Tial QR. Most likely I’ll end up connecting a hose to the outlet side only to muffle the sound. Here is a pic of the QRJ (left) compared to the ‘Q’, which is the 50mm BOV valve.

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I also relocated the coolant reservoir to make room for the blower.

Next I worked on flipping the stock fan 180 degrees, also to make room for the blower. I ended up making some aluminum mounting brackets. However, even after doing this I wasn’t happy with the result. Part of the problem is I am using a larger elbow and larger inlet piping, than most use. So I ended up trimming a bit of extra meat from the fan housing. Yeah, it doesn’t look good, but it will all be covered by the blower and piping and I can always get a different fan later. For now my goal is to make things work.

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Then of course I took the blower and piping apart so I can drive the car to work. This is the beauty of working on your dd.

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Thanks guys.

I forgot to mention I also installed Jerry's COT risers. Below are a few pics.

Risers on the left. The item on the right is for installing an additional idler pulley.
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COT riser installed.
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COT bracket spacer
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Please tell me the strong-ties are coming off. PLEASE.

10 bucks says people will PM you wanting exact measurements of the pipe you cut for the intercooler.
 
Didn't mean to torture anyone with amateur mods, but it is was bound to happen.

'U' pipe cut down the middle would work just fine.


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