🔧 BUILD Upside-down M90 GTP build thread

[Turbocharged400sbc]

3800 - Ugh, it's another fuckin buick

actually you have to lower that side of the subframe, meaning you will have to be careful to line it back up.

www.thechicagogarage.com

 

[sktchy]

He's gonna have to change his thread title now.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Upside of a whipple vs downside of the m90

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

He fitt'n ta be whiiiiiped

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

#WHIPPLETAKEOVER

 

[GTPpower]

Are you gonna flip that one upside down too?

I don't think so.

 

[sktchy]

Whipple gtp to decimate all?

 

[GTPpower]

Meh.

By the way unless that's the core that prj modified for a post-core boost bypass passage for the external boost bypass valve.

delete the Boost bypass valve if it does not pass through the intercooler core before getting recirculated back into the blower.


The animal kit does that and it's a s***** compromise.
it's what led to lunching the Whipple on The WhippledRiv

I haven't looked at it too close yet. But I'm pretty sure it's what prj modified.

 

[GTPpower]

I still want to try a different blower on the upsidedown before I mess with this. I'll probably start a different thread for the Whipple engine build.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

I still can't believe prj and John Bob had that custom 90mm throttle body plenum made when Whipple told me the 90 mm throttle body was too small and that they use their own custom giant throttle bodies....$$$$.

I verified it with a vacuum gauge behind the throttle body and they are definitely right.

It's nice that you got the later animal throttle body plenum set up with the angled Machining.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

I still think the only viable setup is the 3.3 or 200 ax that way you don't need a 3-in pulley and the resulting belt slip and wishing you could buy a 1000ft roll of belts

 

[GTPpower]

I'm not going into sweat it too bad. This kit has been sitting around for 10+ years, so I felt the need to try and see what I can run with it. I'll probably only keep it on for a year or two.

 

[GTPpower]

Then it will get a turbo so I can stay faster than the turbo regal.

 

[turtleman]

I still think the only viable setup is the 3.3 or 200 ax that way you don't need a 3-in pulley and the resulting belt slip and wishing you could buy a 1000ft roll of belts

it (the 2.3L on a 3800) is self-fusing for people that have intermittent self-control problems like myself. If you ask for 30psi, the belt says "no, stupid!"

 

[GTPpower]

it (the 2.3L on a 3800) is self-fusing for people that have intermittent self-control problems like myself. If you ask for 30psi, the belt says "no, stupid!"

What belts do you run? Chessler seems to have good luck with the gates rpm belts since they don't stretch.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

He's making a custom double 10 rib setup

 

[turtleman]

What belts do you run? Chessler seems to have good luck with the gates rpm belts since they don't stretch.

i didn't get past the limits of my standard gates belt, belt wrap and 7.3 powerstroke tensioner while i had the old car going. I'td get to 20-22psi. i was kinda eyeing those rpm belts but i feel like it's a whole different strategy. ill visit that once it's the big problem. only issue i did have is when im bouncing off the rev limiter and doin hoodrat shit the belt could work itself off and shred

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

"Doin hood rat shit" is so going into my rotation

 

[GTPpower]

i didn't get past the limits of my standard gates belt, belt wrap and 7.3 powerstroke tensioner while i had the old car going. I'td get to 20-22psi. i was kinda eyeing those rpm belts but i feel like it's a whole different strategy. ill visit that once it's the big problem. only issue i did have is when im bouncing off the rev limiter and doin hoodrat shit the belt could work itself off and shred

What did you have to do to get the 7.3 tensioner to work?

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Buy itself I don't think it was that much to fit it, but it was integrated into his complete accessory support and blower support system iirc.

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

Pics

3800 - Ford GT blower swap

Holy fuck that A2W intercooler is huge :eek3:

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[GTPpower]

Just looking at it on rockauto, seems like it might work.

 

[turtleman]

What did you have to do to get the 7.3 tensioner to work?

There's recent pictures of my rev.2 tensioner bracket

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Now that's a tensionser.