Local shop to do engine mods

[WA 2 FST]

Ok, so if I was going to drop some serious $$ and do a stroker motor, upgraded fuel system, custom engine management (tuning), Quaife diff, and aftermarket half shafts, where would I go?

I used to do all this stuff myself, but I don't have the time at this stage in my life.

TIA

[Redfox0099]

What are you looking for out of the car when the mods are done?

Street?

Strip?

Both?

Or just bragging rights? I know some good places to get work done but it depends on what you want done

Quaife & halfshafts + install = $4500-5500
Why not just spend $6500 to ditch the weakly designed stock rear end and get a dana 44 from CMJ Performance...i have personally broken 3 stock rear ends and the CMJ is one of the best things I have installed on my car and I LOVE the 3.55 gears.

www.cmjperformance.com ask for Jeff or John and tell them Nathan told you to say "HELLO"...they will treat you right. CMJ also has developed the 1st turn key aftermarket fuel system but if you are doing a N/A stroker you DON't need it.


As for strokers the motor king for know how is Stu at Inertia Motorsports
www.intertiamotorsports.com

He built my stroker (1st ever built back in August 2006) and can do the install down in Round Rock where his shop is.


Again it depends on what you want out of the car, I can see from your Sig you have fast toys but if you don't drag the car there are mods you don't really need.

[EZCORPION]

yeah what he said!!!! lol

[WrenchJeff]

A place in northwest Fort Worth has the Frank Racing certified installer for the metroplex working there. His name happens to be Jeff also. :gr_grin:

[WA 2 FST]

Thanks for the responses!

Redfox... all very good questions, and given that I've been down this road since the early-90s, I actually have concrete answers to them. ;)

I do not get to the strip often at all anymore. Just don't have time at this stage in my life. My son is 2.5 years away from driving, so I'll do more hot-rodding with him shortly.

This is my family car. I would like to have an ultra-reliable street car that produces 460-475rwhp, but looks, sounds, drives like a stocker. I will not put some loud exhaust on it. I don't know how well the stock SRT8 cat-back flows, and I realize that might hurt the potential of a stroker somewhat in the higher rpms, but I'll sacrifice a little there. Since I am a stickler for reliability, I do not mind spending the $$ for a bullet-proof trans/rear-end combo. The car will not see slicks (and probably not drag radials), just some wider rear rubber with a new set of wheels once all this is done (another reason I have not gone with an aftermarket set of wheels yet).

The point is that I don't like doing things 2 or 3x before getting it right. However, if there are things I will not need b/c it will be a street car, then that's fine. Like you said... maybe I don't need more fuel system than I already have. I don't know. I'm very new to these engines, and don't know the threshold of the stock fuel setup. Since it will be a street car, a higher stall torque converter is probably unnecessary, unless the stocker just won't handle the power.

My thoughts are to build a stroker (Stu comes highly recommended, and Round Rock isn't a huge issue), run headers of some sort WITH cats, and leave the stock cat-back setup. I would think a rear-end upgrade would be needed. I don't like the fact that the car doesn't have a locking rear anyway. That's wasted potential from the start as far as trying to get power to the ground. If the CMJ stuff will bolt right in without chassis modifications, then that sounds like an excellent route to take.

Not sure how strong the trans is. What are your thoughts?

Obviously, last but certainly not least is the tuning aspect. The car has to drive like a stocker. I will not get some wild and crazy cam in it, although with more cubes, a larger cam will be necessary and will still behave very well.

[Redfox0099]

Tell you what...I work in Granbury M-F

My street tune makes 455 RWHP on a conservative setting, my race tune 480 RWHP.

Lets get together and I will take you around and if you pass the "redfox" test I might let you drive it for a few minutes if we find a good place.

I offer this as a good friend of Stu and can highly recommend him for a bad ASS N/A setup. The stock rear end and trans are good to abover 580- RWHP so you will be fine there but if you drive my car with the 3.55 gears you won't want to say no.

Nathan
325-201-4240

Redfox-Racing Owner

[WA 2 FST]

Cool, thanks dude. I don't have to drive the car. :) I just turned the big 4-0, so I've got you by 25+ years and I've driven/raced 9-second capable cars as a hobby. I would never ask to drive another hot-rodder's pride and joy.

Unless you work in a seedy area (I know where Granbury is...about 1.5 hours from me, but don't know the area well), I'll bring my 615rwhp twin-turbo Vette over and we can go for a ride in it, too.

I went to your site and saw you have a 426 in there. That is sweet. 450-480rwhp would be plenty for what I want out of the car. You said in an above post ^^^ that you have broken 3 stock rear-ends. Were you running a sticky tire with a high stall?

Also, please enlighten me... what gears come stock in the SRTs? If its in the 3.0x range, then I'm sure I'd love the 3.55s!! :D

Thanks for the info and the strong recommendation of Stu. You've been a huge help to me just in this thread.

[Redfox0099]

I wasn't a math major in college but you being 40 if you had 25 years on me it would make me 15.....not the 29 I am

[WA 2 FST]

LOL... see I _am_ getting old. I was thinking you were ~25, and I started typing too quickly. And I was an Econ and Accounting Major, so I _should_ know my math.

[Redfox0099]

Well 25 + 25 = 50...not 40

Maybe you need to put the bottle down bro...it's time to go to AA.

:)

[WA 2 FST]

No bottle here. ;)

My point (obviously failed to make it clear in a forum msg) is that I was thinking "he's probably ~25" and typing "I've got XX years on you". 25 got typed, instead of 15.

Keep the rubber-side down with that hot-rod of yours. I enjoyed the vids on YouTube.

[TripleB]

No bottle here. ;)

My point (obviously failed to make it clear in a forum msg) is that I was thinking "he's probably ~25" and typing "I've got XX years on you". 25 got typed, instead of 15.

Keep the rubber-side down with that hot-rod of yours. I enjoyed the vids on YouTube.

Don't take it personally WA2, he has a weird sense of humor... which more often than not tends to make him seem like a weenie... :greenchainsaw:

[Redfox0099]

weird sense of hmor huh, I. Consider it more along the lines of I don't bs people and speak my mind.

[beandip77]

Oh, you BS alright, but also speak your mind. :D

[WA 2 FST]

It's all good. I didn't even consider to take offense at it. I was laughing at myself. The first post of mine regarding age was a typo, and the second just got lost in translation.

I still want to know if you broke the 3 stock rear-ends doing burnouts, drag racing on sticky tires, or what?

Thanks for the advice.

[Redfox0099]

call me...it's complicated

325-201-4240

Nathan