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samhouston

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  1. The standard head gasket is completely fine for a LOT of horsepower, the only reason I would 'upgrade' that gasket from a standard Ford gasket would be to do fire rings, otherwise the only upgrade needed on the head would be the studs themselves.

     

    I feel like I have proven the standard gasket goes pretty well throwing 40 plus psi at it without any issues.

  2. Yeah the legality of it doesn’t bother me one bit, but you really want a radial tyre for the street so it has a bit of strength. 
     

    I have run front runners and slicks for years as a full time combo. It’s the only thing that will hook up somewhat.

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  3. So, I know this is old but I encountered this exact same noise this week.

    Installed a solid tensioner as I have had a couple of issues with the hydraulic units.

    Started it up and just had the horrible racket around 3000rpm.

    As mentioned in this thread, I could tune it up or down with the tensioner, and almost got rid of it by having the chain so tight that it would have worn everything else out in 5 minutes.

    Took the solid tensioner out and the noise went away. Pretty disappointed in the tensioner to be honest.

    I think @JETURBO is spot on with the analysis of how the tensioner works, and I also believe that the tensioner floats with the guide and takes up the slack that way.

    Just my 2c on it

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  4. With the PBR rear brakes which I assume you have that pretty much does you out of 15 inch rim.

    I would try get hold of some standard XR6T rear brakes and then you can fit a 15 inch wheel.

    I am running a 15x10 wheel with a 325 Mickey Thompson ET Street, but have done a lot of guard work to make it fit.

    My guards are probably around 2-3 inches each side wider than standard.

    I did run a 295 ET previously which required guard work also, but less of it.

  5. Absolutely no reason why you cant make a big jump in performance for less than $5k.

    The FG intake is a neat setup, you don't necessarily need it but it is neater and works better.

    By the sounds of it that's the way you want to go so I would say do it!

    Always plenty of good parts for sale from people doing another round of upgrades so keep your eyes out on Facebook groups, etc.

  6. Yeah I was very happy with the end result, but the development isn’t going to stop just there.

     

    Basically the difference between the last build and this one was a new cooler and intake, dry sump, but most of the power gains have to be attributed to the cylinder head.

     

    We are seeing well over 300CFM through the inlet side, and we made peak power at relatively low RPM to what I have seen people revving these engines too.

     

    The engine still retains a factory crank and standard stroke at this stage, and all the tuning is done via SCT with the standard ECU.

     

    Colin is a wizard with these cylinder heads and I’m stoked that he tells me he has heads coming in the door from all over.

     

    I will try and keep this a bit more up to date :)

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  7. 7 hours ago, .Stripes. said:

    Cheers, I'm pretty happy with how it turned out...especially after having to shovel and move 30 bags of sand. See how it goes. It's a fairly shade resistant buffalo and ran retic for it...but we'll see how it goes.

     

    Your biggest challenge is going to be keeping the fungus and rot out, I don’t know your climate too well but a regular dose of a product called Mancozeb should help keep it under control. Looks great though!!

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