Pix after first start up after new engine (stage 2)

[Loco1234]

I have copied all the phots I took directly to Photobucket for ease of viewing...
see link below for all of the pix:
http://s120.photobucket.com/albums/o...rst%20startup/

below are some teaser photos of whats in the photobucket directly....
Image of egine bay.... during supercharger piping adjustments.


new oversized water radiator for supercharger intercooler.


Relay holder from Crwon Vic. Contain 3 relays. 1 for inercooler water pump, 1 for each intake air fan. stock like fit. temperature sensor will eventually be added for front mount fans.


New custom underhood battery terminals from trunk mounted battery. Feed by double O (00) gauge for both + & -


Picture of Aeroforce gauge with custom marauder faceplate.

[TiTo35]

Sweet pics...nice adjustment...

Can I see some pics of that chrome grill on your car?

[Loco1234]

we will have pix of that available shortly...

[Raudermaster]

Very nice. Looking foward to seeing her run.

[offroadkarter]

bad a$$ dude

[Loco1234]

New PIX ADDED:

Front view with chrome grill on as requested....


Close up of front grill


Wide angle Engine overhead


Latest intake air coolant piping... very short runs and minimal bends.


3" Full SW exhaust system... also see my thread on exhaust audio

[Zack]

Your next mod will be converting to a blow-thru maf to eliminate all that ugly piping.
It will cost you less to do that than to have those pipes powdercoated.

[Loco1234]

The piping was made incorrect and we had to dremel the blow thru maf port out. (Dennis welded it shut since we did not want it.) Unfortunately, bypass location was incorrect so we had to change to blow thru....
...We have a powder-coater so bottom line is blow thru and powder coat only cost us time....

This is the blow-Thru... its ugly as hell now... as I said we had to careful dremel it out....


Hey Zack do you have a good program for the SCT3 we can run for now...
60lbs inj, 90MM maf, diablo mafiaex set to zero, dual GT fuel pump & mod'D FPDM, AN 8 fuel line, 5.0L cnc ported fox lake heads, Vortec T-trim 16-18lbs, Full 3" SW exahust w/ headers, 3200 or 3500 stall conv, and all the rest of the origninal mods you did...

Just waiting on Dennis to give me a time & place for a Jerry W dyno tune...

[magindat]

Your next mod will be converting to a blow-thru maf to eliminate all that ugly piping.
It will cost you less to do that than to have those pipes powdercoated.

You know, that's EXACTLY what I was thinking as I looked at those pics...

Blow-thru = FTMFW!!!

[2,4shofast]

You have an awesome Marauder, Hopefully one of these days I can get a S/C for mine.

[Marauderjack]

Where does the intercooler reside....in the red box??

[Zack]

Hey Zack do you have a good program for the SCT3 we can run for now...
60lbs inj, 90MM maf, diablo mafiaex set to zero, dual GT fuel pump & mod'D FPDM, AN 8 fuel line, 5.0L cnc ported fox lake heads, Vortec T-trim 16-18lbs, Full 3" SW exahust w/ headers, 3200 or 3500 stall conv, and all the rest of the origninal mods you did...

Just waiting on Dennis to give me a time & place for a Jerry W dyno tune...

Blow thru or suck thru?
Im a little unclear as to what you are actually doing.

[magindat]

Where does the intercooler reside....in the red box??

Yes, that's a Vortech water-to-air unit.

[MM_BKK]

According to SCT (unless they don't know what they're talking about), a draw through MAF set up will support more RWHP than blow through.

What are the advantage/disadvantages of doing blow through?

[magindat]

According to SCT (unless they don't know what they're talking about), a draw through MAF set up will support more RWHP than blow through.

What are the advantage/disadvantages of doing blow through?

If you say so. Maybe with their BIG AIR products. But I've seen blow thru support nearly 500 RWHP and not come close to pegging. Plus, to connect the blow-thru MAF, you need a MAFia set to 0, so there's no where to go but UP!

The advantages are:

Instant boost - no delay while the fuel commanded by the PCM (rich condition) waits for the air metered by the MAF (stoich) to 'catch-up'.

No-reheating of pipe and recircing heated air = lower IAT's - for me an average of about 30-45 degrees - no BS.

Less likelyhood of MAF getting oily or wet by being so close to filter.

Less likely to peg

MAF closer to IAT, physically

No recirc reversing airflow through MAF - big problem on high boost dropping recirc close to MAF.

Cleaner look - less pipes - less crap to go wrong.

The ONLY disadvantage I have found is that my MAFia fell off it's mount and sat down by the compressor and got wet in recent rains and sent a BS signal to the PCM. I found it, dried it, and re-mounted it. Done.