before i start ... excuse the crappy photography. I don't know anyone in the PA area that's a good photographer so these were done at random with a canon powershot A95.

If anyone's local and would like to take some pics someday, PM me.

... alright fellas - on with the show. Comments are welcome ... both good and bad.

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When I first bought the car... jackson racing supercharged



First day out of the paint booth.











Shortly after, I pulled the blower put in a built shortblock and turbo'd it. Made 409 whp/280 tq on 93 pump @ 16psi with a 57 trim .63 housing. For unknown reasons it cracked ringlands in all 4 ... so it sat for a bit, and i rebuilt it... and took it up for a retune. Made 365/260 on 93 @ 14psi with the same turbo. Shortly after, #4 took a crap and cracked a ringland as well. I almost gave up... it was costing me too much to keep fixing. So it sat like this for a while ...





After talking to some of my friends, parting out some of my stuff and finally rethinking the whole thing... i picked up a stock b16 shortblock, a gt30r and had plans to rebuild ... and in the mean time, picked up some new parts for my built motor that should be going in next spring or whenever i get bored with this motor.











Shortly after getting it running again and inspected, i stopped home to get some money to go see a movie, and on the way to the theatre, slid on some black ice and hit an oncoming car. I rarely drive this car in anything but summer months, but was so excited to drive it after so long i figured i'd take it since the roads looked bare. Either way ... this happened... and then it started snowing...









Here's the other car ... barely a scratch.



Soooooo once again, the car had to sit But i took the time to pick up a few new parts and took it back to the body shop.

Started on a quick engine-in rattle can enginebay spray just to tie me over til this winter when i pull it, do a wiring cleanup and color match the bay.












annnnnd out of paint again for the last time (hopefully)



The night i picked the car up, reconstruction began and the interior was reinstalled, and some minor things were finished up. The morning after, I drove for a retune... it made 272 whp/175 tq... making 3psi off the wastegate spring until 6500rpm and creeping to ~9psi. The power was made by 7800 rpm, where the driver left off for whatever reason each time ... but the car is revved to ~9000 and pulls the whole way.

about 2 months later (or a month ago, however you look at it)... my car was broken into. Not much was stolen, but enough to be yet another hassle in this car's life. Boost guage, wideband and cd player got jacked ... for thieves. Either way ... luckily, insurance covered the theft and all three have been replaced (just haven't got around to installing the wideband)... and here's how she sits today (but rolling on steeles for the rest of the summer until i finally redo suspension and figure out what kind of real-deal wheels i'm buying .. no more rotas for me





























gotta represent




mods list...

Exterior:
Full Galapagos Green paint (from honda element)-all jambs, minus engine bay, including floor of interior. Roof painted Nighthawk Nlack Pearl
OEM JDM ITR front end conversion w/ HID
VIS carbon fiber hood
VIS carbon fiber hatch
Honda Access window visors

Interior:
OEM ITR armrest delete
OEM ITR airbag delete
Momo tuner steering wheel, black w/ red stitch w/ HKB hub
OEM optional H horn button
amber bulbs in gauge cluster
Black w/ red stitch Recaros.
OEM ITR shift boot

Suspension, brakes, etc:
OEM rotors w/ Hawk HPS pads (good condition, new brembo blanks and hawk hps pads included in sale)
Eibach sportlines on stock struts, rides great but needs to be lower
Full-Race traction bar
16" black rota slipstreams wrapped in bfg's

Powerplant:
b16 shortblock
cometic headgasket yielding 9:1 c/r
ARP head studs
GSR head, mild valve job
ITR valvetrain
GSR cams
RLD-FAB equal length manifold
GT30R .82 housing
tial 38mm wastegate/BOV
stainless 2.5 inch intercooler piping, sprayed w/ duplicolor iron cast.
garrett/peakboost intercooler
precision 1000 injectors
hondata s300 w/ boost control
aeromotive FPR and inline filter. -6 an lines
edelbrock fuel rail.
3" stainless exhaust. straight under the tank, one bend after tank to apex'i n1 muffler.
AEM Wideband
Autometer Boost gauge
Autometer EGT
Autometer oil pressure gauge
GSR tranny w/ OBX LSD
Clutchmasters fx400 clutch and lightened flywheel
Fluidyne radiator w/ pusher fan

Built Motor:
85mm Golden Eagle Sleeved b16
polished crank
Eagle Rods w/ 3/8 bolts
CP 9:1 pistons
ITR pumps
01 ITR head
supertech springs
portflow retainers
ITR valves
Blox B cams
Golden Eagle cam gears

plans for winter include dropping in the built longblock, redoing suspension, new wheels, clean up the interior, and colormatch/cleanup the engine bay.



thanks for viewing

if anyone's a cheap photographer in the PA area, or knows one ... PM me. I'd like to send some good looking shots to a few places to try to score a feature soooomewhere. Thanks.

 

props for staying with it!

 

thanks brotha

 

Where are you at in PA?

 

altoona area. 45 min from state college, 1.5 from pittsburgh

 

dedication clean whip man!

 

stock shocks ftl

 

Not bad

 

haha heard that. I'm going with some PIC selects or ground control/koni yellows. I have the money to do it now ... but i'm just gonna hold out so i have something to look forward to over winter

 

you got some shitass luck man
glad you stayed with it

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by nathanong87 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">props for staying with it!</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

props homie

 

thanks guys. Luck has definately been shitty - but if my built motor holds up half as well as my stockblock is, then i'll be having lots of fun next summer.

I remember what 400+ whp is like, and i want it back!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by nathanong87 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">props for staying with it!</TD></TR></TABLE>

x2 and u shaved of the sidemarkers too!!??

 

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x2 and u shaved of the sidemarkers too!!??</TD></TR></TABLE>

u bet i did Its not that i didn't like the way they looked ... but i knew i'd never wire them up.

Gotta be a little different somehow

 

all the hardships paid off, clean *** car

 

 

just got this rolling pic sent to me... this is 5 day old paint coming back from a car show

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by miyagi &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">

u bet i did Its not that i didn't like the way they looked ... but i knew i'd never wire them up.

Gotta be a little different somehow </TD></TR></TABLE>

Something different alright, i caught that when u redid the paint

 

HEY MY CAR USE TO BE RED ALSO. SUCH A HARD COLOR TO COVER UP.

CARS LOOKIN SAUCY! NICE SETUP!

 

damn you been through a lot, in the end its clean

for your new built set up
Built Motor:
85mm Golden Eagle Sleeved b16
polished crank
Eagle Rods w/ 3/8 bolts
CP 9:1 pistons
ITR pumps
01 ITR head
supertech springs
portflow retainers
ITR valves
Blox B cams
Golden Eagle cam gears

low compression with blox b cams?
or you turboing with NA cams?

 

like alot of people said, awesome for you to stick thru it all and still go with building your car!...thats dedication i guess haha i give up easy on cars...but damn second time out of the body shop and you still have the side moldings???

 

i like the color

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by BlUeDC2nEr &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">HEY MY CAR USE TO BE RED ALSO. SUCH A HARD COLOR TO COVER UP.

CARS LOOKIN SAUCY! NICE SETUP!

</TD></TR></TABLE>

yea man - it is hard. .. i can see certain spots where it's not perfect ... but for the most part it was a great color change. if i had to do it again though, i would have either kept it red or stripped it bare and popped the windows.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SiB16A &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">damn you been through a lot, in the end its clean

for your new built set up
Built Motor:
85mm Golden Eagle Sleeved b16
polished crank
Eagle Rods w/ 3/8 bolts
CP 9:1 pistons
ITR pumps
01 ITR head
supertech springs
portflow retainers
ITR valves
Blox B cams
Golden Eagle cam gears

low compression with blox b cams?
or you turboing with NA cams?</TD></TR></TABLE>

turboing with na cams. lower boost pressure to make the same power

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by luvmyEGG &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">like alot of people said, awesome for you to stick thru it all and still go with building your car!...thats dedication i guess haha i give up easy on cars...but damn second time out of the body shop and you still have the side moldings??? </TD></TR></TABLE>

i know, i know ... but those moldings saved my *** from some massive dings plenty of times. That alone is reason enough to keep em.

thanks for the compliments guys

 

forgot to mention ... if anyone can help me wire up the HID - it'd be appreciated. The new front end has a different ballast box than my last one ... before there was a blue plug that went from the original headlight harness into the box .. now there's no place for the blue plug. Would cutting the plug and hardwiring the into the right pin on the brown plug for the headlights do the trick? I hate wiring with a passion, and i'm kind of scared to try it hah.