greaser Posted July 25, 2010 Report Share Posted July 25, 2010 glad to hear things are finaly moving ahead ken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500-07 Posted July 30, 2010 Report Share Posted July 30, 2010 ^Well apparently the dyno is repaired. I had to give up my #1 spot on the waiting list, because of the accident my SGT got itself into while sitting in a parking lot a couple weeks back. I dropped her off this afternoon at the body shop. The other driver's insurance adjuster will visit the car tomorrow, in order to assess the damage. So hopefully that goes well and they can at least begin the repairs this week. Assuming all goes well, I should be looking at the end of next week or the week after to get my long awaited dyno time in... any update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strong_j Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 ken you still alive ol' buddy?? How's the car coming?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500-07 Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 ken you still alive ol' buddy?? How's the car coming?? he's over on the S197 forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL SHELBY Posted August 6, 2010 Report Share Posted August 6, 2010 Ok, who pissed-off Ken..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted August 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 Ok, who pissed-off Ken..... LOL sorry fellas, it's been a goofy couple of weeks for me, between travelling, work, kids, etc. But no one pissed me off! The update is that the car is still in the body shop. Originally, it was to be done this passed Tuesday and then today. Now, it's due to be done next Tuesday. There was a delay from Shelby on the rocker stripe. Also, Ford shipped a damaged hood, so that slowed things down even more. Once I pick her up though, I'll throw some photos up of the new mods I decided upon (Paul already knows one of them). Aside from that, I finally ordered up the Paxton air-to-air intercooler kit, which ought to arrive sometime next week. I've also got the FRPP intake manifold coming, along with a Vortech Maxflow race BOV, so I'll have a couple days of work ahead of me, before I can get Ol' Blue back on the dyno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strong_j Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 More mods??? KEN slowwwww downnnnn!!! My college fund is dropping QUICKLY just trying to keep up!! lol I hope the body shop gets everything worked out nice and quick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShelbyGT/SC Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 LOL, my head is still spinning from all the work you've already done, let alone new mods. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted August 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 C'mon you guys are worse than my wife! You fellas know how I am. I can't leave anything alone. I'd better buy a project track car here pretty quick or this thing is going to end up looking less and less like an SGT every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL SHELBY Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 "I'll throw some photos up of the new mods I decided upon,,," I knew it! You pulled the trigger on a Lambo door kit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted August 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 "I'll throw some photos up of the new mods I decided upon,,," I knew it! You pulled the trigger on a Lambo door kit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tispco Posted August 7, 2010 Report Share Posted August 7, 2010 El Shelby - Looking at the yellow Lambo in Ken's picture, I guess he already has Lambo doors. Maybe he's trying to tell us his next mod is converting to Front Wheel Drive. With all that horsepower, the back end sliding around probably gets annoying........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted August 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2010 Delayed yet again. . . Now the body shop says Thursday. This is getting pretty old. However, my new FRPP intake manifold arrived today and it's looking pretty bad ass. I can't wait to get it installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL SHELBY Posted August 11, 2010 Report Share Posted August 11, 2010 I caught the new FRPP manifold on 07shelbygt's car this past weekend. Looks awesome. It's definitely on my short list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted August 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 Update on the FRPP intake - it's not designed with the Paxton/Vortech kits in mind. It won't clear the t-stat housing, due to the Paxton supplied housing spacer that I have installed. The spacer is installed to rotate the housing slightly, so that the coolant hose will clear the blower. It looks as if it was an after thought of sorts on Paxton's behalf. I've tried everything and there's no way to get this manifold to bolt up with that spacer installed. So I'm working on cutting up the stock aluminum t-stat housing and re-welding it, so that I can get the angle I need but without the spacer. Once that's done, I'll post pics of the install, so that anyone else with a Paxton/Vortech that wants to add the FRPP intake will know what to do. I picked the car up Thursday afternoon from the body shop, only after demanding that I be able to keep it for the weekend, in order to get some parts off the car that I sold and promised to ship last week. They gave the car to me with a freshly painted fender, hood, and bumper cover (like fresh out of the oven fresh), so they still need to be color sanded. The rocker stripe is still en route from Shelby, also. The hood pins aren't installed, because they didn't get around to cutting the holes. My new paint mod is done though and I think it looks bitchin. I'll get a pic up shortly. My new hood mod, however, hasn't been started. Also, they tried installing a new driver's side headlight that wasn't an HID, so I needed to correct them on that. The new HID ought to be here tomorrow apparently, so my old damaged HID was reinstalled with a temporary strap to keep it in place. I have to drop the car off again tomorrow morning and I assume that they'll have it for another couple of days, in order to get the rest of the work taken care of. I did get my powder coated Moroso coolant reservoir removed though and shipped to it's new owner, so I'm glad I got to keep it for the weekend anyway. Aside from wrestling with that intake manifold, my air-to-air intercooler kit arrived from Paxton, so I began that install this weekend too. All I got done was installing the coil itself behind the bumper cover. While the front fascia was off, I finally got my new tow hook bracket installed (the one that I purchased from Kerry). It came out looking pretty good, so now I just need the hook! Anyway, putting the bumper back on was a serious chore, so after some quick inspection I realized that the coil was sitting too high, forcing the bumper cover to bend upwards. I had to pull the coil back off and drill out new mounting holes, so that it would fit into place. After trying to install the bumper again, I found that my Shelby brake cooling/lower fog light bezels were causing an interference down low. So out they came. Those will be up for sale shortly. LASTLY, somewhere along the line late last week, I found the time to weld my new Magnaflow cats into my Kooks off-road x-pipe. They were a bear to weld up, because the fit was so goofy. The cats measured a little over 3" and the x-pipe measured a hair under 3". I didn't realize this of course until after my cuts were already made, so my TIG work ended up being butt welds instead of the much preferred slip on welds. I also had to cut out and relocate the original O2 sensor bungs, in order for the long cats to fit. And I also added an extra O2 sensor bung for each bank. One is for my wideband and the other was just for the hell of it. I hadn't used a TIG setup for almost a year, so the welds aren't passing x-ray or anything, but I think they came out OK. I'll also post pics of those in a few. Anyway, I definitely do NOT recommend that anyone pull their entire exhaust system out of their car on their back under some cheesy jackstands in their garage, then try to bolt it all back up by themselves at midnight after working all day. My neck is still killing me. The sound is great now though and not nearly as obnoxious (but it still has a nasty rumble). The added torque down low was a nice surprise too. All in all, it's been a terrible month of modding with this thing. I'm exhausted from all the back and forth, the missing parts, the damaged parts, the parts that don't fit right, and on and on. I see a light at the end of the tunnel though, so I'm not trading her in for a Kia just yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted August 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 Here's the Paxton coil installed, before I had to modify the mounting brackets. You can also see the newly installed tow hook bracket on the front of the bumper support. (Nevermind the pile of junk in the background, by the way - I'm trying to move to my new house through all of this mess at the same time!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted August 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 Here's a pic of the FRPP intake manifold resting atop the t-stat housing, due to the added height of the Paxton supplied housing spacer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted August 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 Here are some shots of my freshly welded in cats and O2 sensor bungs, shortly before I re-installed the exhaust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted August 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 A shot of my old hood at the paint shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greaser Posted August 17, 2010 Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 hmmmm so what to do about the intake t-stat housing issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted August 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 Like one of my favorite TV shows, I've just got to "CUT, CHOP, REBUILD" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strong_j Posted September 6, 2010 Report Share Posted September 6, 2010 Hey ken how the progress coming?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT500-07 Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 any one here from Ken? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted September 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Well after the move to the new house, my baby daughter's surgery, and a whole ton of time lost with the paint/body shop, I finally got around to cutting and re-welding my thermostat housing. I moved the t-stat housing's outlet just a few degrees towards the front of the car and gained enough clearance to delete the Paxton supplied t-stat housing spacer and get the FRPP intake manifold to finally bolt down. However, by removing the spacer, I found that the throttle body housing now interfered with the Paxton supplied coolant hose fitting (the shiny 90* elbow that connects to the end of the t-stat housing). So last night, I took a grinder to my TB and gained just enough clearance for that to bolt up too. My intercooler coil is mounted, but I had to remove the SPP brake duct/fog light bezels, in order to get the coil to fit. So now I just need to find the time to finish up the intercooler plumbing. I received some new silicone couplers and T-bolt clamps from ATP Turbo (thanks for the lead Carl), so I've got everything I need now to get that job done quickly. After that, the blue devil is finally ready for it's long awaited tune. I'll get some pics up asap. On a side note, I have to return to the body shop for the millionth time, because one of my custom mods fell apart a day after they completed it. I'll post pics of the final exterior, once I can get their mistakes fixed, which will hopefully be tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted September 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 I also found time this week to paint my new Brembos and get them installed. Here's a crappy cell phone pic I took. The silver Brembo decals finally arrived today, so I'll get those slapped on tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted September 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Here's a shot I found on my cell from the body shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted September 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 I forgot I snapped this shot last night before heading to bed. You can see the intake manifold bolted down with the strut tower brace barely clearing it. I had to add 4 or 5 washers to the top of each strut stud to get it to clear, even though I've got 1/2" lowering motor mounts. You'll also notice another new mod in the bottom of the picture, the FRPP radiator cap sticking out of the coolant hose. After installing the Paxton supplied coolant reservoir recently, in order to make room for the intercooler kit, I found that the huge Shelby radiator cap cover was nearly impossible to turn, because it's jammed against the side of the strut tower brace. So I bought an inline 'T' from Summit and the FRPP radiator cap, so that I have a more convenient fill for the system. Also, if I ever want to lose the OEM 'de-gas' system and add a coolant overflow, I can pull the plug from the side of the inline T and run a new coolant hose from there to an overflow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmn444 Posted September 9, 2010 Report Share Posted September 9, 2010 Hope your daughter is doing good Ken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahmann Posted September 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 ^Thanks man, she's all fixed up and doing well. Here's a shot of my engine bay with the intake bolted up and my intercooler install well underway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AstroDan Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 Dayum!!!! Ain't that purdy? All the best for your daughter, Ken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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