JeffJ Posted June 17, 2013 Report Share Posted June 17, 2013 The 2013 RMMR was a great success. The weather was amazing all weekend. Out of the 500+ Mustangs we had on the street for the show, over 75 were late model Shelby's. There were 52 in my class of 2006-2009 Shelby's. You can imagine that many were incredible. I received one of the 7 Awards of Excellence given in this class. I also ended up 2nd in the Unlimited Class for the Friday Autocross event, just behind my friends 2004 680hp Cobra on race tires. Here's some shots from the event. Yes, a Cobra 4 valve powered Focus: Jack Terhar of Sill-Terhar Motors brought up a new Jag F-type and flogged the heck out of it at the Autocross: My car in Autocross trim: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norton Posted June 18, 2013 Report Share Posted June 18, 2013 Congrats! I'm really sorry I missed this! Although I ended up not traveling, due to the Black Forest Fire, that ended up being the reason I still couldn't leave town. Had to remain on-call for AF's support of firefighting and relief ops... (For the record, I was happy to do so but certainly wish it hadn't been necessary.) Looking forward to next year... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HARALD KELLEY Posted June 18, 2013 Report Share Posted June 18, 2013 Congrats Jeff. Post a close up of your engine bay. I like your intake and would like to see more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffJ Posted June 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2013 Congrats Jeff. Post a close up of your engine bay. I like your intake and would like to see more. Harald, I'll have to try and get some detailed photos of this, but it has been a disaster trying to get this thing tuned. We were getting serious buffetting of air with the stock Paxton set up pushing air back against the MAF sensor by the air filter. I guess sometimes the Paxton set up works on a tune, and I have done much research on finding that sometimes the exact same set up will have this air buffetting (?) issue. The Paxton BOV valve sometimes causes air to push back against the MAF if that makes sense? There was a Paxton set up at the tuners identical to mine with no tuning issues at all. But then mine had serious issues. With my intercooler set up, we ended up fabing a new intake tube from the intercooler to the intake with a bung for the MAF sensor half way in the tube. I also got a much higher capable MAF that can register much better for tuning. Now all air that goes through the MAF is going into the engine. I now have a blow of valve in the tube by the drivers side tire between the Paxton and the intercooler, venting out to atmosphere. So now it sounds like I have a turbo with a BOV. So the BOV valve is now in front of the intercooler and the MAF after. This allowed me to scrap the factory Paxton filter to head unit plastic tube with all those crazy bends in it. Seems to be working pretty well now. I'm still having a tuning issue. I have a TCI 3500 stall converter which I guess is complete crap for anything over 450 hp. If we try to electronically lock it for dyno purposes, the engine blows right through it causing us to not get good power down for tuning. So, now need to spend another grand on a good converter before we finally get a really good tune on it. But, it is running pretty darn good. Another HUGE issue was the absolute crap Granatelli coil packs. Those things wouldn't fire consistently for anything. I had to go buy Ford Racing 2010 coil packs in order to get it to run at all. That was our major tuning issue. I wanted to run the AFM intake tube, but they are on a huge back up, so I just fabbed my own intake tube with some 4" tubing I found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HARALD KELLEY Posted June 28, 2013 Report Share Posted June 28, 2013 Harald, I'll have to try and get some detailed photos of this, but it has been a disaster trying to get this thing tuned. We were getting serious buffetting of air with the stock Paxton set up pushing air back against the MAF sensor by the air filter. I guess sometimes the Paxton set up works on a tune, and I have done much research on finding that sometimes the exact same set up will have this air buffetting (?) issue. The Paxton BOV valve sometimes causes air to push back against the MAF if that makes sense? There was a Paxton set up at the tuners identical to mine with no tuning issues at all. But then mine had serious issues. With my intercooler set up, we ended up fabing a new intake tube from the intercooler to the intake with a bung for the MAF sensor half way in the tube. I also got a much higher capable MAF that can register much better for tuning. Now all air that goes through the MAF is going into the engine. I now have a blow of valve in the tube by the drivers side tire between the Paxton and the intercooler, venting out to atmosphere. So now it sounds like I have a turbo with a BOV. So the BOV valve is now in front of the intercooler and the MAF after. This allowed me to scrap the factory Paxton filter to head unit plastic tube with all those crazy bends in it. Seems to be working pretty well now. I'm still having a tuning issue. I have a TCI 3500 stall converter which I guess is complete crap for anything over 450 hp. If we try to electronically lock it for dyno purposes, the engine blows right through it causing us to not get good power down for tuning. So, now need to spend another grand on a good converter before we finally get a really good tune on it. But, it is running pretty darn good. Another HUGE issue was the absolute crap Granatelli coil packs. Those things wouldn't fire consistently for anything. I had to go buy Ford Racing 2010 coil packs in order to get it to run at all. That was our major tuning issue. I wanted to run the AFM intake tube, but they are on a huge back up, so I just fabbed my own intake tube with some 4" tubing I found. Sounds like more than I want to deal with. It does look nice. Would you consider selling your original elbows (ones you had painted)PM me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeljgt500kr Posted July 2, 2013 Report Share Posted July 2, 2013 I wish I could have made this, looks great, maybe next year it won't conflict with the Make A Wish Charity show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffJ Posted July 2, 2013 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2013 RMMR is Father's Day weekend in June every year. Here's a couple photos I had taken just after the show on Saturday: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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