Deanzsyclone
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Well the day has finally come that my syclone (Deanzsyclone) has returned home back to Ventura from Mikes shop, Race Proven Motors in chatsworth California, and all I can say is that it was worth the wait! A HUGE thanks goes out to Mike and his relentless qaulity control. He simply would not let the truck go out of his shop unless it was perfect, and I have to say this thing is really nice, and FN scarry FAST! His qaote was, "you wanna shit your pants, just put some race gas in it and turn the boost up to 20lbs" that reminds me, I still have to clean those shorts.
Well if anyone has been following my sauga then you know this project has been going on for a long time now, and if Mike was not so patient and persistent the problems my own engine guy's created would of never been rectified. Just as an example my engine builder had the Brodix heads ported so much that the compression ratio was only running 7-1, and my engine builder balanced my crank with the rear of it being off by 300 grams! Mike eventually found these problems after alot of head scratching and refusal to give up. Just when I thought I was going to get my truck back a couple months back I call Mike and he say's hey we pulled your motor back out and took off your heads! I'm like what! Well he just was not pleased with the way the motor was running when he dynode it at 600hp, so he pulled the damn thing back out... lol said we found the problem and were ordering custom pistons to fix the low compression issue. Wow, now that's something else, that's dedication to getting it done RIGHT, and that's just one of the stand up thing's he ended up doing my truck had other issues that he kept searching out. I really believe MOST shops/mechanics would of just given me the truck back without mentioning a word on it not running fully up to par. Thanks Mike, my hat's off to you brother.
What I learned. Yahh you can order the parts and have one guy pull the motor, another guy build the engine, another guy prep the heads, put it all together with your local mechanic and when there's a problem, it's you that gets to pull it back out and dissect it, and if your engine guy did something wrong he points the finger at the guy that did the heads, and vise versa. Unless you have your own shop and do 90% of the work yourself than I don't recommend doing what I did. I should of just waited till Mikes schedule was clear and had him build me a turn key car from the beginning. So if something goes wrong there is one place that is basically repairing it before it leaves the shop, no one pointing fingers at each other, and the truck goes out the door ready to run with a reputable builder standing behind it, as much as one can considering were running these trucks hard, which is why I want mine no where near the envelope of breaking. I think I've achieved that. Having many builders in on a syty project was really a bad idea, it's not fun when I have to keep pulling a motor back out over and over because someone in your posy screwed up. One shop doing it all tends to pull the motor back out themselves if they screwed up.
I have a couple pics of it at home here
http://deanzsyclone.multiply.com/photos/album/12
I'll be taking some of the completed engine bay soon.
I also have some HD video of it on the freeway doing some mid to light acceleration, not to hard as I was getting my feet wet again
Link to video ride home here. Make sure when you get there to click on the link below the image to get the full resolution version. UPDATE: sorry I just found out you have to be a member of "multiply" to get the HD version:tdown: so I will in the near future be getting my own webpage and hosting HD video on thier for anybody to view, untile then enjoy the small resolution version or join multiply (for free) to view the HD version.
http://deanzsyclone.multiply.com/video/item/17
Previous thread, or history is located here.
http://www.syty.net/forums/showthread.php?t=27246
Again, thanks Mike, you FN Rock.
Well if anyone has been following my sauga then you know this project has been going on for a long time now, and if Mike was not so patient and persistent the problems my own engine guy's created would of never been rectified. Just as an example my engine builder had the Brodix heads ported so much that the compression ratio was only running 7-1, and my engine builder balanced my crank with the rear of it being off by 300 grams! Mike eventually found these problems after alot of head scratching and refusal to give up. Just when I thought I was going to get my truck back a couple months back I call Mike and he say's hey we pulled your motor back out and took off your heads! I'm like what! Well he just was not pleased with the way the motor was running when he dynode it at 600hp, so he pulled the damn thing back out... lol said we found the problem and were ordering custom pistons to fix the low compression issue. Wow, now that's something else, that's dedication to getting it done RIGHT, and that's just one of the stand up thing's he ended up doing my truck had other issues that he kept searching out. I really believe MOST shops/mechanics would of just given me the truck back without mentioning a word on it not running fully up to par. Thanks Mike, my hat's off to you brother.
What I learned. Yahh you can order the parts and have one guy pull the motor, another guy build the engine, another guy prep the heads, put it all together with your local mechanic and when there's a problem, it's you that gets to pull it back out and dissect it, and if your engine guy did something wrong he points the finger at the guy that did the heads, and vise versa. Unless you have your own shop and do 90% of the work yourself than I don't recommend doing what I did. I should of just waited till Mikes schedule was clear and had him build me a turn key car from the beginning. So if something goes wrong there is one place that is basically repairing it before it leaves the shop, no one pointing fingers at each other, and the truck goes out the door ready to run with a reputable builder standing behind it, as much as one can considering were running these trucks hard, which is why I want mine no where near the envelope of breaking. I think I've achieved that. Having many builders in on a syty project was really a bad idea, it's not fun when I have to keep pulling a motor back out over and over because someone in your posy screwed up. One shop doing it all tends to pull the motor back out themselves if they screwed up.
I have a couple pics of it at home here
http://deanzsyclone.multiply.com/photos/album/12
I'll be taking some of the completed engine bay soon.
I also have some HD video of it on the freeway doing some mid to light acceleration, not to hard as I was getting my feet wet again
Link to video ride home here. Make sure when you get there to click on the link below the image to get the full resolution version. UPDATE: sorry I just found out you have to be a member of "multiply" to get the HD version:tdown: so I will in the near future be getting my own webpage and hosting HD video on thier for anybody to view, untile then enjoy the small resolution version or join multiply (for free) to view the HD version.
http://deanzsyclone.multiply.com/video/item/17
Previous thread, or history is located here.
http://www.syty.net/forums/showthread.php?t=27246
Again, thanks Mike, you FN Rock.
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