my budget x275 build

I would like to thank everyone who has help me in the past get the car were it is today There are so many folks from this board that need to be thank for there help. Here is a list who has helped me along the way and who is helping now on the current :

Phillip @ Oakley Motorsports
Steve and Paul @ Induction-Solutions
Lenny @ Ultimate Convertor Concepts
Lem and Shawn @ BF Evans Ford
Keith @ KFM Motorsports
Bob Hardison
Dan Hobbs
Charlie Evans
My wife Julia and family for there continued support
and anybody ive forgotten thank you !!!!

I have finally started my new build several areas of concerns : the chassis , the electrical and the fuel .


The new engine will be a Oakley Motorsports A460 deal , with an Induction-Solutions fogger. I will be ditching the digiset/relays and going with nms1000 and the digital 7 to handle all of the ignition and tuning for this deal . On the fuel side i will we ditiching the way i have the reg. on the side and doing a single fuel log in with the reg built in.

Ive gutted the car this weekend and will be losing some weight but that will allow us to put ballast were it needs to be. I will be posting pics of the progress. On the chassis side the car had been in the low 20's in the 60' , as we know thats not going to cut in small tire racing , we are going to focus on stiffing the ladder bar attactments to the cage and add a few bars to get it up to spec , we are going to add some bars going out the front from the dash bars to the framerail , and then some footwell/trans bars also upgrading to a better ladder bar and diagonal .


there will be other areas that will have to be upgraded no doubt but this will get us started in the right direction.

some of the stuff removed this weekend from the car :




will be rewiring the car and removing all the old harnesses , plus adding the necessary bars to help stiffen the chassis




will be removing the old regulators , and adding bars to once again stiffen the front frame rails, and will end up cutting out part of the factory strut towers

600 dollar fuel log

i was at sgmp this past weekend man o man was it killer ---- you better build one bad azz motor cause them boys aint playing --- never in my life would i have thought i would see a radial 275 go 4.28@175 wow

good luck bruno

Badnotch :
I live about 15 miles from SGMP . You sure they wasn't racing Boats instead, bout had to Swim to work.

badnotch wrote:i was at sgmp this past weekend man o man was it killer ---- you better build one bad azz motor cause them boys aint playing --- never in my life would i have thought i would see a radial 275 go 4.28@175 wow

good luck bruno

the x275 class was 4.70 in the finals ....the 4.28 was in the outlaw class on whole differnet tire ...not 275 plus they are not limited to 588 " ......but no doubt the x275 class is and will be a hard one to be competitive but we will give it a try

badnotch wrote:i was at sgmp this past weekend man o man was it killer ---- you better build one bad azz motor cause them boys aint playing --- never in my life would i have thought i would see a radial 275 go 4.28@175 wow

good luck bruno

Wish i knew you were there, we could have meet. I was there with the car I built for Bruce Rentz. He sleep on the tree, but set the record for Ultra street with a 5.04.

I wasn't able to make it up there Had to do the Work thing !!! Soupbean was there also

OldRed70 wrote:I wasn't able to make it up there Had to do the Work thing !!! Soupbean was there also

X2 me to maybe one day I want have to work so much

OldRed70 wrote:Badnotch :
I live about 15 miles from SGMP . You sure they wasn't racing Boats instead, bout had to Swim to work.

Ya it sucked for 2 days but Sunday was off the hook

Baller

yellowhorse7 wrote:

Baller

i wish ....ck out the k-member it was built on the noahs ark ....... it originally had mounts on the deal , and Dan and i chopped it up just to get the kook headers on that sucker ......... i would like to upgrade the k-member with some new a-arms and would also like to upgrade the camber/caster plates to the fixed ones ........ but that might have to wait

bruno wrote:

yellowhorse7 wrote:

Baller

i wish ....ck out the k-member it was built on the noahs ark ....... it originally had mounts on the deal , and Dan and i chopped it up just to get the kook headers on that sucker ......... i would like to upgrade the k-member with some new a-arms and would also like to upgrade the camber/caster plates to the fixed ones ........ but that might have to wait

The new Team Z stuff is killer for sure

and you are most likely going to need to do some work on those shock towers as well.................

If I chop the front end off of mine like I want to you can have mine . I can't believe it still had the back seat in it. What did you take the wife and kids out for ice cream in it...

bruno wrote:

yellowhorse7 wrote:

Baller

i wish ....ck out the k-member it was built on the noahs ark ....... it originally had mounts on the deal , and Dan and i chopped it up just to get the kook headers on that sucker ......... i would like to upgrade the k-member with some new a-arms and would also like to upgrade the camber/caster plates to the fixed ones ........ but that might have to wait

i have a pair of almost new team z a arms i want to get rid of. i could leave them at phillips next week
i/2 list price

put a real midplate in that biotch.....

cool40 wrote:put a real midplate in that biotch.....

will be working on that also

call up dave and get one of his new outlaw k-members. they are really nice!! but beware though the racks are on backorder

bruno wrote:

cool40 wrote:put a real midplate in that biotch.....

will be working on that also

Nick, I have set up 4 bbf in fox bodys. It's hard to beat the skinny kid off set motor mid plate. Team z 2" drop k member and 1" shorter a arms set the car down nice. If you go with skinny kid set up you'll have to get a 2" drop in you in your k member.

chuck wrote:

bruno wrote:

cool40 wrote:put a real midplate in that biotch.....

will be working on that also

Nick, I have set up 4 bbf in fox bodys. It's hard to beat the skinny kid off set motor mid plate. Team z 2" drop k member and 1" shorter a arms set the car down nice. If you go with skinny kid set up you'll have to get a 2" drop in you in your k member.

2" drop...does that mean a guy can put a real oil pan on the engine at that point?

Lem Evans wrote:

chuck wrote:

bruno wrote:

cool40 wrote:put a real midplate in that biotch.....

will be working on that also

Nick, I have set up 4 bbf in fox bodys. It's hard to beat the skinny kid off set motor mid plate. Team z 2" drop k member and 1" shorter a arms set the car down nice. If you go with skinny kid set up you'll have to get a 2" drop in you in your k member.

2" drop...does that mean a guy can put a real oil pan on the engine at that point?

not really, but it does allow you to lower the engine and helps with a number of engine placement head scratchers.

Lem Evans wrote:

chuck wrote:

bruno wrote:

cool40 wrote:put a real midplate in that biotch.....

will be working on that also

Nick, I have set up 4 bbf in fox bodys. It's hard to beat the skinny kid off set motor mid plate. Team z 2" drop k member and 1" shorter a arms set the car down nice. If you go with skinny kid set up you'll have to get a 2" drop in you in your k member.

2" drop...does that mean a guy can put a real oil pan on the engine at that point?

Lem there are 2 K-members avalible that i know of that there would be zero oil pan issues , they move the hoop and the rack in front of the oil pan location ........ just to switch to that k-member requires a long expensive parts list Dave from team z is out of town this weekend and will speak to him on Monday to see what he suggests i know when i spoke to Racecraft it was :

1979-1993 Mustang Stiletto Race K-Member Kit
300116 "Ultra Lites" 4130 2" Drop Spindles
3212TA00 79-93 Mustang 1'' Short Rod End A-Arms
333106 Stiletto Rack and Pinion
333190 Racecraft Inc. Light Weight Tie Rod Kit
333162 Stiletto Rack Adaptor with Plated Spacers
BK3370 Mustang Race K-Member Bolt Kit
BK8000 Stiletto Rack Bolt Kit
BU7000 Segmented Spacer Kit
1,854.95 1,854.95
1979-2004 Mustang Front Tube Stiletto K-Member 695.00 695.00
Tow Hook for K-Member 25.00 25.00
2 Tie Downs for K-Members 50.00 50.00
Front Tube K-Member Mounting Kit 16.00 16.00
1990-1993 Mustang Steel Weld In Caster Camber Plates 179.00 179.00
Stiletto Pro Series Steering Kit 216.00 216.00
Strange Light Weight 4 Piston Brake Kit for Ultra Light
Spindles 5 on 4.5 Bolt Circle
687.50 687.50

Shipping & Handling 222.27 222.27
$3,945.72
i could be wrong but he said i needed all the above to make the change for the "outlaw k-member" which at that point would be no oil pan restraints

With all them sponsors that will be cheap Nick.I'd be ordering it today if i was you.You'd better hurry ,May 18th will be here before you know it

get some fab skillz instead of the bolt on kind.............

Barney wrote:

Lem Evans wrote:

chuck wrote:

bruno wrote:

cool40 wrote:put a real midplate in that biotch.....

will be working on that also

Nick, I have set up 4 bbf in fox bodys. It's hard to beat the skinny kid off set motor mid plate. Team z 2" drop k member and 1" shorter a arms set the car down nice. If you go with skinny kid set up you'll have to get a 2" drop in you in your k member.

2" drop...does that mean a guy can put a real oil pan on the engine at that point?

not really, but it does allow you to lower the engine and helps with a number of engine placement head scratchers.

10-4 on lowering the engine. If the pan could get only 1/2" of the 2" it'd let some good things happen.