My son and I picked up our kit from Factory Five the day after Thanksgiving in 2002 and we were driving it on 3/1/03. At the time it was a pretty basic kit using the required parts from the donor car (which by the way was a really nice 1989 GT Convertible that was bought for $2,900). It has been upgraded a bit over the last couple of years; installed a three link, new brakes, new front suspension and power steering, new radiator and finally got the headers and side pipes powered coated. The motor is a warmed over 302, stock heads, E303 cam and Cobra intake with the original 5 speed. The car runs great, it can sit for months and will start up on the first crank every time. But, it is 1989 technology and it is time to upgrade the drive train. The plan is to get a small block crate motor, some street-able aluminum heads and a new transmission. The big decision is the intake system. I had been leaning towards a stack system (for the cool factor) but as I get further into this, even the expensive complete systems aren't necessarily complete. Then it takes a good tuner to get them set-up correctly. I am not looking to build a science experiment especially since I have a perfectly good running car right now. The new plan is looking like the Holley Sniper system with the related electronics and ignition system. It gets good reviews, looks to be mostly a plug and play without a lot of "tuning" involved. I still need to pick out an appropriate intake manifold, lots of good possibilities. Summit Racing hasn't been making daily deliveries to my house for years, it's time to get that started again.
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays!
Oh, I forgot to mention that I had a Holley Terminator X ECU with my Mass Flo throttle body and injectors. That failed miserably. EFI systems don't mix.
