****Official Twoloose Build Thread****
Nice project! The inside of that motor looks much cleaner than the typical JDM stuff you see. Good luck sir, it looks like you are on track for a really nice build. I have one n00b question about the swap...You mentioned possibly using the stock GE ecu with a piggyback. Will the GE ecu control the GTE tranny?
Not to threadjack or derail.
I can see it from both sides from puff and yourself. I sold my procharged pontiac g8 gt for a jeep srt8. The new owner of the g8 sold it to a guy......guy messaged me on g8board.com and said it was tuned to 25 deg of timing.....and ran like dogballs. On my shops mustang dyno it made 460hp 480tq. On his dyno it was 410 and 390tq lol......someone jacked some sheet up.
My tuner showed me my tune to prove he did 15 deg of timing.....and said only a moron would ever get over 20 in this case.
On the flip side.....this means check your cars before buying them, because modded cars can be more of a nightmare than non modded......its scary because you never know who did what and when.
Awesome build though twoloose. I want to do the same......but 500/500 hp/tq range.....on e85.
I cannot wait to start mine, and we are looking at the same time frame!!
I can see it from both sides from puff and yourself. I sold my procharged pontiac g8 gt for a jeep srt8. The new owner of the g8 sold it to a guy......guy messaged me on g8board.com and said it was tuned to 25 deg of timing.....and ran like dogballs. On my shops mustang dyno it made 460hp 480tq. On his dyno it was 410 and 390tq lol......someone jacked some sheet up.
My tuner showed me my tune to prove he did 15 deg of timing.....and said only a moron would ever get over 20 in this case.
On the flip side.....this means check your cars before buying them, because modded cars can be more of a nightmare than non modded......its scary because you never know who did what and when.
Awesome build though twoloose. I want to do the same......but 500/500 hp/tq range.....on e85.
I cannot wait to start mine, and we are looking at the same time frame!!
Moral of the story, either buy stock and do it yourself or at a minimum try and do a leak down and compression check....
Ordering some billet pulleys today, not doing a billet crank though, heard lots of bad things about those.
Can someone help me track down a harness extension? Having a hell of a time finding one. Thanks guys
Can someone help me track down a harness extension? Having a hell of a time finding one. Thanks guys
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That's a good question actually, I'm open to cool suggestions. My original thought was to have it repainted the factory teal color and then outline the letters and logo in black. I definetly think the motor needs some color though...
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That actually doesn't sound bad at all might look good you should photoshop some pics with different colors who knows you might come up with a cool design.