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Hey Spartan,
Can you get some pictures of the Front and Rear sway bars?
Also the rear control arm.

I think they are blade style, which means you can make them in car adjustable....
 
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They are Blade! Which means if you wanted you could make them In-Car Adjustable!
Something I am looking to do with my 302R, as tires degrade would be cool to change the setup.

can use something like this-
https://www.pegasusautoracing.com/productdetails.asp?RecID=6410
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you might want to think that through, yes they are blade, but not like a formula car where you can adjust front or rear bars, to do that on this car you would have to be able to adjust both sides of the bar as there are blades on both sides, that will in turn effect the other side even though only marginally. In car adjustments are a really good way to jack yourself right out of the ball park on setup. I think it's a real bad idea.
 
That black thing is a Vent with a roll over valve.

If your asking about the silver canisters? The diagonal one is a filter. The 2 verticals are pumps.


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Are you planning to keep the '15 manifold? I think they ran the GT intake to flatten the HP curve and keep the HP to weight ratio in check so they did not have to add a bunch of weight to run in GT4 classes. If your not going to race in GT4 changing the manifold should wake that motor up a bunch on the top end.

The manifold change from a '15 to a '18 on my car was a huge improvement above 5500 RPM.

Let us know your track schedule I would love to come see this thing run. Your spare parts haul is also very impressive. What an awesome setup. Congrats!

Dave

@ddozier I did purchase a GT350 intake setup and will be updating the cal to add approx 90 HP. Rouse Yates has this tune for non restricted GT4's.
 
How does this car compare to the two you built? Is it a lot faster?
I now have the Motec setup for M1. The Motec camera is $2,000 so im not rushing to buy it just yet. My best lap is 1:10 using end of life Michelins (updated) but much faster than my other GT350's.
 
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I now have the Motec setup for M1. The Motec camera is $2,000 so im not rushing to buy it just yet. My best lap is 1:12.07 using end of life Michelin's but much faster than my other GT350's.

What did your other Gt350s do around M1? I am coming for the Speed Ring event in September and Curious where Our cars will stack up.

Also you can get an Sim Smarty Cam Gp 2.2 and it will work with your Motec. About $1000-
https://www.aim-sportline.com/en/products/smartycam-gp-hd-rev2.2/index.htm
 
What did your other Gt350s do around M1? I am coming for the Speed Ring event in September and Curious where Our cars will stack up.

Also you can get an Sim Smarty Cam Gp 2.2 and it will work with your Motec. About $1000-
https://www.aim-sportline.com/en/products/smartycam-gp-hd-rev2.2/index.htm

I don’t think you can extrapolate much with my times on my other GT350’s compared to the GT4. My seat time is compounding and my times are improving. I’m about three seconds faster with the GT4 and am confident I’ll be shaving a few more seconds over time.

Look forward to meeting you when you come over for Speed Ring.

Received the GT350 intake.b03915e6f29e5c1979943f085ad47a66.jpg


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@ddozier I did purchase a GT350 intake setup and will be updating the cal to add approx 90 HP. Rouse Yates has this tune for non restricted GT4's.

Kudos to Ford on the packaging, when I bought my GT350 Manifold it was thrown in a box with some brown packing paper on top and shipped out the door. I was lucky it made it in one piece.

Is that the GT350 throttle body? I ran mine with the stock GT throttle body and an adapter. At the time it was much easier to tune the 5.0TB.

I know they say 90hp but it will wake that motor up and the last 2000 rpm will pull like mad, I loved the change on my 5.0 and as soon as I get a hole in my schedule long enough to do the swap I have an Aluminator52XS sitting in the corner of my shop ready to go in. I am hoping it will help as I have always felt the chassis needed another 100hp.

If you get a chance the next time you have the front fascia off can you take some picks of the radiator surrounds and oil cooler mounts and ducting. I have a Setrab 50 row cooler and custom ducting but I am worried it may not be enough for the 52XS when it goes in. I may need to rethink the setup I have now.

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Dave
 

JDee

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I don’t think you can extrapolate much with my times on my other GT350’s compared to the GT4. My seat time is compounding and my times are improving. I’m about three seconds faster with the GT4 and am confident I’ll be shaving a few more seconds over time.

Look forward to meeting you when you come over for Speed Ring.

Received the GT350 intake.b03915e6f29e5c1979943f085ad47a66.jpg


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What manifold is on the GT4 as homologated? Is it the stock GT manifold?

I put PP2 on my car (stock GT) and above 6750 rpm you can just feel the power dropping off, it may rev to 7250 with the PP2 tune but I am faster shifting up a gear well below that.
 

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Man that's really something, talk about kneecapping a race engine.....Surely Ford didn't choose to do that did they? My guess would be a lack of love from SRO. In the last race they had to run 75 lbs heavier, 4 litres less fuel and and a 59mm restrictor vs 62mm for the Camaro. Speaks volumes about the quality of the chassis that they run as well as they do.
 

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