Woohoo! Found a performance jem in a local salvage yard
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Woohoo! Found a performance jem in a local salvage yard
My brother stopped at a salvage yard near home today to get a hood for his Chrysler New Yorker, and he said when he was pulling the hood he noticed a GTP sitting next to the New Yorker with the good hood. He noticed it was a fresh car there because it was pretty much complete. So he popped the hood, and low and behold a L67 engine with the following mods:
Thrasher CAI
Modular pulley setup
headers
MSD 10mm wires
DHP PCM
Magnaflow mufflers
Rockers (he said he couldn't really tell if they were different than stock, but when we pulled my oil filler cap on my SSE he said they were definitely different).
I am going to the place tomorrow right after I get off of work (early) and I'm going to get as much of the goods as I can and see if I can find a name and address of the former owner in the car so I can call them and ask about rockers, cam, PCM programming (so I can sell it knowing what all is required for using this PCM in a 1997 GTP), etc.
Hmm, might just skip Rock Falls Saturday (Just kidding -I don't want to miss Saturday) to swap headers, rockers, CAI, and anything else that might swap.
Looks like the SSE is going to progress ALOT faster than I thought.
Already the car is definitely noticably faster as I stripped the trunk absolutely bare, complete back seat, floor mats, rear dash, and headrests from the front seats just this evening (took all of 45 minutes). Also did the ELC trick and went out for some practice launches on fresh pavement. Definitely a different launching procedure is required.
Thrasher CAI
Modular pulley setup
headers
MSD 10mm wires
DHP PCM
Magnaflow mufflers
Rockers (he said he couldn't really tell if they were different than stock, but when we pulled my oil filler cap on my SSE he said they were definitely different).
I am going to the place tomorrow right after I get off of work (early) and I'm going to get as much of the goods as I can and see if I can find a name and address of the former owner in the car so I can call them and ask about rockers, cam, PCM programming (so I can sell it knowing what all is required for using this PCM in a 1997 GTP), etc.
Hmm, might just skip Rock Falls Saturday (Just kidding -I don't want to miss Saturday) to swap headers, rockers, CAI, and anything else that might swap.
Looks like the SSE is going to progress ALOT faster than I thought.
Already the car is definitely noticably faster as I stripped the trunk absolutely bare, complete back seat, floor mats, rear dash, and headrests from the front seats just this evening (took all of 45 minutes). Also did the ELC trick and went out for some practice launches on fresh pavement. Definitely a different launching procedure is required.
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Originally Posted by Twister97
Im not ripping on you, but how much weight is lost when you strip all of that stuff from your car? It has to be noticeable, right?
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The rule of thumb is 1 tenth off your et for every 100lb dropped.
Good find on the parts use them to your advantage. Take a picture of the rockers and I can probably help on that aspect.
Good find on the parts use them to your advantage. Take a picture of the rockers and I can probably help on that aspect.
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Originally Posted by Rogue
The rule of thumb is 1 tenth off your et for every 100lb dropped.
Good find on the parts use them to your advantage. Take a picture of the rockers and I can probably help on that aspect.
Good find on the parts use them to your advantage. Take a picture of the rockers and I can probably help on that aspect.
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Kudos to your brother for poping that hood! My own brother would have walked right by.
Good luck with the future moods and the pending race night. Your weight reduction might give more than just the .2sec mentioned if it allows for a better launch? I cant wait for your post race review and good luck
Good luck with the future moods and the pending race night. Your weight reduction might give more than just the .2sec mentioned if it allows for a better launch? I cant wait for your post race review and good luck
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Great now I'm REALLY gonna have some competition this weekend *Out side ripping his car apart* lol I'm sure I've got plenty of good N/A'* there that are gonna walk me. Oh well....Everyone needs to get owned once in a while.
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Would you be willing to get some of the other mods off that car? I would buy the headers off you, and the MPS if you can take them off.
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Well, some MNCGP guys were there before me (I got there at 1PM) beat me to the headers, MPS, PCM tray, DHP PCM, front seats, MSD 10MM wires, Air filter, and who knows what else. All I was able to get my hands on was the Thrasher CA box which had the bottom plexiglass broken so I will have to re-glue it together.
I will be going back on Monday to pull the rockers (for myself).
I will be going back on Monday to pull the rockers (for myself).