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They used to call my 90' LX Coupe a "Wednesday Car" at the dealership where I worked....it ran a string of 8.8's bone stock with 10-holes on it.
Eventually Ran lower 8.30's (8.27 one time...but was never able to back it up)...
- short belt (and cut-loose fan clutch)
- 3.73's and modded stock carrier (extra clutches)
- Hoosier Dirt-balls (still on 10-holes)
- removed front sway-bar
- Homemade rear traction arms
- removed everything that didn't have a significant purpose...sound deadening, all insulation under the carpet, spare, jack, etc. Also removed the power factory tweed seats and replaced with base stuff out of a 4-cyl car.
- ported stock MAF
- Extrude honed stock intake
- 15 degrees initial timing
- Offroad H and 2-chamber Flowmasters (not a catback, just replacement mufflers)
- 100 octane unleaded fuel...never more than 5-gallons of fuel at a time (minimal for weight savings but also enough to help with transfer)
- Homemade CAI
- Motorsport clutch and lightweight flywheel
- Hurst shifter
Probably forgetting some things...it's been a long time...I would try any little thing back then. I was basically living in the magazines, spending every weekend at the street races and/or Kennedale, and also experiementing constantly (getting A LOT of seat time in it). The car lived in one of my stalls at the dealership and I was fucking with it during any bit of downtime I had at work. It had never had a valve cover off when it was running that setup....it had right around 35K-36K miles. I started doing more when that first stage of warranty went away.
I eventually started playing with nitrous....the same setup above with a 100hp pill and stock fuel pump went a best of 7.81 on 9 degrees initial timing....eventually switched to Weld wheels with skinnies up front and 26x9 ET Drags on 8" rears....changed out the fuel pump (I want to say to only a 155lph, but I don't recall exactly on that) upped the pill to 150hp...switched to 4-cylinder springs up front and some "modded" stock struts and bolt-in frame connectors....went a best of 7.60 in that shape, backed up several times but wasn't nearly as consistent as it was on the 100hp pill....and I tried & tried to get a 7.5x pass out of it but it never happened! Some of the things I tried actually slowed the car down....stuff like trying to open the exhaust behind the H-pipe. I also remember that it liked to be short shifted 2-3 and 3-4.
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Eventually Ran lower 8.30's (8.27 one time...but was never able to back it up)...
- short belt (and cut-loose fan clutch)
- 3.73's and modded stock carrier (extra clutches)
- Hoosier Dirt-balls (still on 10-holes)
- removed front sway-bar
- Homemade rear traction arms
- removed everything that didn't have a significant purpose...sound deadening, all insulation under the carpet, spare, jack, etc. Also removed the power factory tweed seats and replaced with base stuff out of a 4-cyl car.
- ported stock MAF
- Extrude honed stock intake
- 15 degrees initial timing
- Offroad H and 2-chamber Flowmasters (not a catback, just replacement mufflers)
- 100 octane unleaded fuel...never more than 5-gallons of fuel at a time (minimal for weight savings but also enough to help with transfer)
- Homemade CAI
- Motorsport clutch and lightweight flywheel
- Hurst shifter
Probably forgetting some things...it's been a long time...I would try any little thing back then. I was basically living in the magazines, spending every weekend at the street races and/or Kennedale, and also experiementing constantly (getting A LOT of seat time in it). The car lived in one of my stalls at the dealership and I was fucking with it during any bit of downtime I had at work. It had never had a valve cover off when it was running that setup....it had right around 35K-36K miles. I started doing more when that first stage of warranty went away.
I eventually started playing with nitrous....the same setup above with a 100hp pill and stock fuel pump went a best of 7.81 on 9 degrees initial timing....eventually switched to Weld wheels with skinnies up front and 26x9 ET Drags on 8" rears....changed out the fuel pump (I want to say to only a 155lph, but I don't recall exactly on that) upped the pill to 150hp...switched to 4-cylinder springs up front and some "modded" stock struts and bolt-in frame connectors....went a best of 7.60 in that shape, backed up several times but wasn't nearly as consistent as it was on the 100hp pill....and I tried & tried to get a 7.5x pass out of it but it never happened! Some of the things I tried actually slowed the car down....stuff like trying to open the exhaust behind the H-pipe. I also remember that it liked to be short shifted 2-3 and 3-4.
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