my 92 spirit r/t

[92spiritrt]

i'll start off with a little background on the car. its a white 92 spirit r/t. its very clean and is close to being completely rust free. has 127,xxx miles on it. i ran a best of 13.80@107 on street tires on the original motor with a 50 trim and typical bolt ons(fmic, 3" exhaust etc.). it ate an ishaft but did no bearing damage luckily. but at that point i decided the motor should be freshened up so i pulled it out of the car and started to pull it apart. the #4 cylinder wall had a few gashes in it. i took the motor to brian slowe for a "stock" rebuild, but that idea didn't last too long. one thing led to another and things ended up at the point that you will see in the following pictures. the car is coming along fairly well now and will be making its debut at sdac this year. so here we go:

the turbo is a precision 6262 with an .82 housing



i decided to build a header. i tacked it together then had brian do the final welding





next was the downpipe. its 3" stainless with a 44mm tial gate and 1-3/4" dump to atmosphere for the gate.

[92spiritrt]

while i was working on those parts brian was building the bottom end. its a .020" over r/t block, je pistons, oliver rods, r/t crank and pro-gram 4 bolt mains. the head has a 5 angle valve job done by wallace, ported by steve menegon, s1 cams, ti retainers and adjustable cam gears.










also brian built an intake from scratch for it. first pic is a mock up to make sure it cleared the hood. the rest are latest pic i have of it but it now is all welded up. its a 5" plenum it will have a 70mm mustang tb on it. the injectors will be on the underside of the intake.

[turbovanman²]

F*ck me, that's going to be an animal,

Did you port the oil pump hole?

[92spiritrt]

the intercooler is the precision 750hp piece.


boost controller is an innovative turbo unit.



i started to clean the engine bay up. carroll is making me a simplified harness like what he did for his omni. i also removed the abs out of the car. that opened up a lot of space.




i got a real nice gas tank from lengel and brian welded a sump on it. the fuel system will consist of a fuelab 1300hp pump, 75 micron filter and 10 micron filter with a -8 feed line. i haven't mounted it yet but that will happen soon.



lengel came over this morning and we degreed the cams.


brian is putting the trans together, which i might have back this coming friday. it is an a568 with an obx and 3.50 final drive. i will be running a 4 puck tu clutch with the purple plate. hopefully it all holds up.

that pretty much brings the build up to speed. i will be updating as i go now. a huge thanks goes to brian, lengel, carroll and my fiance megan(she glass beads most of my parts) for all of their help.

[2.216VTurbo]

Nice work Rob, if you fabbed the header, you've got serious skilz Nice tank and fuel system as well. I'd give you props for the intake Mani too but I think we know where that's from 600 HP in a Spirit eh?Nice

[iTurbo]

Wow man talk about full tilt!

[92spiritrt]

Nice work Rob, if you fabbed the header, you've got serious skilz Nice tank and fuel system as well. I'd give you props for the intake Mani too but I think we know where that's from 600 HP in a Spirit eh?Nice

thanks alan. yeah thats all brian right there. 600hp would be nice, buti'm not going to make any claims til the numbers are documented. i don't want to do any benchracing

Wow man talk about full tilt!

it wasn't going to be full tilt by any means, brian's a bad influence.

[iTurbo]

OK now that I have reattached my lower jaw I must say that looks awesome. Nice work on everything!

[135sohc]

You should have put some MP billet caps for #1 & #5 to match the rest of the bling party in that block

[bradp]

Looks awesome!!!

[Simsy]

wow a lot has changed

[raccoon]

living the dream.

[Directconnection]

Looks killer, man!

I have a suggestion to brighten up the paint in your engine bay to make it look almost new again: 3M Imperial Hand Glaze. Comes in a clear, tall, quart sized bottle with red writing on it. The stuff looks like a mocha shake.... but you rub it in good by hand, and buff it off by hand afterwards and all the oxidization and scratches come right out! Look at what it did to my 155,000 mile engine bay in my sig!

Oh... NAPAs usually carry it.

[92spiritrt]

OK now that I have reattached my lower jaw I must say that looks awesome. Nice work on everything!

thanks again for the kind words

You should have put some MP billet caps for #1 & #5 to match the rest of the bling party in that block

i'll keep that in mind for next time

Looks awesome!!!

thanks brad

wow a lot has changed

only in the engine bay, still looks completely stock on the outside. the intercooler is even hard to see through the grill.

living the dream.

almost, i can't wait til its done cause at this point all i want to do is drive it now.

Looks killer, man!

I have a suggestion to brighten up the paint in your engine bay to make it look almost new again: 3M Imperial Hand Glaze. Comes in a clear, tall, quart sized bottle with red writing on it. The stuff looks like a mocha shake.... but you rub it in good by hand, and buff it off by hand afterwards and all the oxidization and scratches come right out! Look at what it did to my 155,000 mile engine bay in my sig!

Oh... NAPAs usually carry it.

thanks i'll have to check that out. i'm definately happy with how the engine bay cleaned up so far, but if i can get more shine out of it i'm willing to try it. that last time i drove the car it pushed 4 quarts of oil out in five minutes of driving. so everything on the passenger half of the motor/engine bay was covered in oil and sludge. so it has come a long way already.

[rx2mazda]

thanks alan. yeah thats all brian right there. 600hp would be nice, buti'm not going to make any claims til the numbers are documented. i don't want to do any benchracing

We've been bench racing for months!

it wasn't going to be full tilt by any means, brian's a good influence.

^^^^^Fixed!

BTW, I though this was a top secret project that wasn't getting a PLOG until after SDAC? Everything looks great Rob. This is a shining example of how you do a good serious build from top to bottom......Oliver rod, JE's, Menegon TIII head, big plenum intake, Carroll wiring harness()Precision IC & turbo, 70mm TB, Header, etc etc

[92spiritrt]

We've been bench racing for months!

shhh, i don't want to get into a bench racing war. noone is going to buy the idea that this car will go from a high 13 car to a possible 10 second car. but it will still be faster than your car

^^^^^Fixed!

BTW, I though this was a top secret project that wasn't getting a PLOG until after SDAC? Everything looks great Rob. This is a shining example of how you do a good serious build from top to bottom......Oliver rod, JE's, Menegon TIII head, big plenum intake, Carroll wiring harness()Precision IC & turbo, 70mm TB, Header, etc etc

i gave up on the top secret plan. i have posted enough pics in other threads now that if you put them all together you would pretty much be able to figure out something was being built. you missed probably the most important thing on that list: a slowe tune, with any luck he'll have it running 11's on 87 octane or something along those lines.

[rx2mazda]

shhh, i don't want to get into a bench racing war. Noone is going to buy the idea that this car will go from a high 13 car to a possible 10 second car:d. But it will still be faster than your car

Rob! Can you hear me?! Rob! Rob! Wake up man! Rob! Your dreaming again! Rob!......

[92spiritrt]

Rob! Can you hear me?! Rob! Rob! Wake up man! Rob! Your dreaming again! Rob!......

sorry i forgot about the weight difference again(which is the only thing making you fast).

[rx2mazda]

sorry i forgot about the weight difference again(which is the only thing making you fast).

and my minimal experience driving slow cars.

[iTurbo]

Just curious, are the electronics going to be TIII based or aftermarket? And is that a yellow Shadow ES sedan I see in that garage? Maybe it's just the light.