UPDATE! Project 11secV6 underway

[97rs4life]

Well I have been busy scooping up misc. parts and figured it is finally time to fill you in on what is going down with my car this winter. There is a lot happening and come M&G it is going to be a totally different animal.

My goal is to get into the 11s with it. I am going to try to do this with stock bottom end 3.8l engine.

I recently purchased the heads/cam/intakes that are going to be going on the car.

Heads: I went with the Abbott Stage 3 heads. These heads feature:
• ARH Competition valve job
• SI Stainless valves, 1.840" intake, 1.550" exhaust
• Fully ported combustion chambers, intake, and exhaust ports
• Decks are milled and combustion chambers are C.C.ed to spec size
• All ports are flowed and tuned on the flowbench to ensure they meet spec flow rates
• Comp 130# valve springs
• Comp titanium retainers
• Guides cut down for high lift cams
• New valve seals
• Assembled and ready to run
• Check for cracks
• Bronze valve guides

For the head gasket I picked MLS Cometic Gasket with a .052" thickness to raise the compression up some more to help NA power and nitrous.

Intakes I am going a different route, that actually has never been done in the USA. I bought some Holden v6 intake manifolds from a place down in australia. The stock holden intakes are a better design with longer runners and such. Looking to gain more torque out of them. I am also using the holden TB so the TB will no longer have the MAF in it like the fbody version has. So I have ordered a LS6 vette MAF to take car of my MAF needs. Lower intake I will be having Abbott Racing port to match the Stage 3 heads I have of theirs.


Cam: I chose the Abbott NA cam for the cam. I was going to go with a bigger one but the MPG and streetability of it was an issue that I felt was not worth it. The specs are:

ARH Naturally Aspirated cam
-210/220 @ .050
-.320" lobe lift on the intake, .512 with a 1.6 rocker ratio
-.320 lobe lift on the exhaust, .512 with a 1.6 rocker ratio
-112 lobe separation

misc:
- JP double roller timing chain
- remove balance shaft
- Comp OE lifters
- ARP head studs
- ARP reusable rocker arm bolts
- PLX wideband
- TA performance Rear cover and stud kit
- UMI panhard bar

Oh yea and I am also doing a rear seat delete that will have two nitrous bottles mounted to it along with a fire extinguisher since I don't use the back seats anyways. My nitrous setup will stay with the two stage setup that I have now. First stage is dry, second stage is wet.

I am still looking for a TC stall yet, I want to get a 3500 stall and I am waiting for a guy I know to start parting his car out that he is no longer going to race. He has a nice TCI stall that is 3500 and cut some great times with.

So yea, sorry to drag this post on and on, but I thought some of the v6 guys here would be interested in hearing my plans. Stay tuned for progress in the next few weeks.

[JAdair]

You Betta take some pictures lol.... Sounds like that thing is going to be pretty crazy

[SS4Matt]

that's pretty sweet and good luck with it! 11's is very respectable with a v6 car, let alone any!

[kammi10]

better get some pics otherwise it never happened!!!!!

[97rs4life]

yes pictures will be taken along the way.

Here is the holden intake, tb, fuel rail

[silver6_maro]

SWEET TRAVIS!! I was wondering when you were going to make a thread about all the stuff you bought!! Let us know how its going and ill have to stop by once and a while and check it out!!

[00firebird]

can't think of any n/a v6 11 sec cars off the top of my head, but im sure you can get 12s with the right suspension setup. cant remember what lance at abbott got his car to before he disassembled it but it was a beast for sure. never count out the idea of a turbo good luck!

[JAdair]

He could get a v6 turbo into the 11's with no prob a guy over on TGO has already done it i think he broke into the high 10's

[00firebird]

yep im sure he could but doing it n/a will be a tough cookie. heres a old ass vid of lances car, theres a better one but im too tired to go net seaching right now.

http://www.freewebs.com/wickedsix98/lance.wmv
the times are bad for what it was at the time, had tuning problems

[97rs4life]

this is not going 11s NA, lol. 11s are gonna be on the bottle. I can see high 12s, or low 13s NA with this cam.

Lance did 12.48 with a bigger cam NA. That cam was the one I was originally going to get but changed my mind and went with this more practical one.

And no, no way am I going turbo.

[ITSSLOW]

HAHA! I read about this a few hours ago! I probably inspired this tread.

Can't wait to see some progress Travis!

[s.reef]

That sounds sweet! Those abbot heads are sick!

[97rs4life]

oh yea and if anyone wants to donate some salad shooters I wouldn't complain Need some light rims for some DR cuz I am gonna need the traction

[SS4Matt]

just curious...what does a "head/cam" combo like what you got run for V6 cars?? just wondering how they are in comparison to an LS1 head/cam setup?

i mean price wise...how much $$ is that?

[97rs4life]

www.abbottracingheads.com/gm.htm

Check that site out, that is who did these heads and their cam.

A little over 1600 for stage 3s, and 305 or something like that for the cam

I got the cam second hand from a guy who bought it from abbotts, but never installed it, so it is brand new in the bag yet