New, Old guy from San Antonio

[kbaxter60]

Howdy and welcome to the forum.
Neighbor.

 

[contender buff]

 

[MountainGirl]

Welcome

 

[Zapp]

Greetings from San Antonio.
Moved here from the arctic circle (Wisconsin) back in '84, Had an FFL up there for doing gun work, got another when I moved down here.
Gave it up when the ATF started going after little people like me by providing bad guys with fake IDs just to put good guys out of business, or worse.
Been a machinist all of my adult life, and feel naked if I don't have equipment in my garage, even if it's older than I am.
Retired now, but still have a work load, too many projects!
Some of you may know me from Gun Shows, or maybe kart racing, or if you got your ass handed to you when you were out playing with your Mustang, or Nissan, or what ever, I'm the old guy in a white Toyota Cressida that did it.
Sorry...

You can't just post about how fast your Cressida is without more detail. What did you do to it?

Welcome to the forum!

 

[Dawico]

Welcome to TGT

 

[Gordo]

That car looks familiar, do you go to the Cars & Coffee meets at Six Flags?

Nope, I think that started after I took it all apart again...
Used to go to that restaurant at I-35 & Toeperwein Rd., Biff Buzby's,
You see, I finally got beat by two mustangs, a Roush P51 I believe, and a Fox Body, that had "Street Racing? Hell Yes!" on the license plate frame. Both got about a car length on me.
So it came apart, got the ports opened up, and just about finished building a manifold for 6) 50mm ITBs.
(it had just a single 70mm throttle feeding a modified stock intake manifold)
Also dumping the highly tweaked auto, for an HPI close ratio 6-speed. Always had an issue with the car not leaving the line very well due big cams, and it not making much power below 6000 rpm, and tried a lot of converters, but never could get one above 3000 stall. With the new box, rpm drop is only 1500 between shifts, which will keep the rpm no lower than 7000.
Going from a 30+ torque converter to a 8 lb flywheel, and multi plate clutch.
Should be fun!
Hopefully this summer...

 

[leVieux]

Greetings from San Antonio.
Moved here from the arctic circle (Wisconsin) back in '84, Had an FFL up there for doing gun work, got another when I moved down here.
Gave it up when the ATF started going after little people like me by providing bad guys with fake IDs just to put good guys out of business, or worse.
Been a machinist all of my adult life, and feel naked if I don't have equipment in my garage, even if it's older than I am.
Retired now, but still have a work load, too many projects!
Some of you may know me from Gun Shows, or maybe kart racing, or if you got your ass handed to you when you were out playing with your Mustang, or Nissan, or what ever, I'm the old guy in a white Toyota Cressida that did it.
Sorry...

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[Gordo]

You can't just post about how fast your Cressida is without more detail. What did you do to it?

Welcome to the forum!

Well, I think it has the original windshield in it...

Here is what comes to mind:
Fully built 7MGE
8500 RPM red line.
TRD cams, 272 x 10.5 intake x 272 x 10.5 Exhaust.
TODA Shim-under-bucket set.
1mm oversize SS valves. Forgot the valve spring manufacture, will have to dig a little on that one.
Ported, valve bowls bored to match larger valves.
Group-A spec. combustion chambers.
Custom JE 12:1 pistons on Crower rods,
and Precision Products titanium wrist pins.
Pistons are fully coated, ceramic domes, moly/teflon skirts.
Head and block both cut .020" to bring the compression up to 12:1.
Combustion chambers, valves & exhaust ports all ceramic coated.
HKS old school adjustable cam gears.
GReddy timing belt.
FET 1mm metal head gasket.
Doweled 7M crank
(had to dowel pin this beast, kept ripping the flex plate off the crank with my 8500 rpm shift points when it had an auto).
Clevite-77 bearings.
Balanced.
Custom 7 qt pan with swing door & crank scraper.
Custom 15% oil pump over-drive.
Remote oil filter.
Derale oil cooler.
Modified JDM NA Supra manifold, with Modified BBK 70mm throttle body. But soon to be 50mm ITBs.
SARD fuel pressure regulator.
Highly modified flapper-style AFM, but soon to be a MAP based system (AEM Infinity).
K&N 9" cone filter inside custom filter housing.
Pacesetter modified headers, coated by HPC,
with full 80mm SS exhaust.
Exhaust crankcase evacuation system.
Flex-a-lite twin electric fans.
Kazama Fail-proof engine mounts.
ATI crank dampener.
CSR electric water pump on custom 7M adaptor plate

Drive train:

Was a highly modified AE340 with a larger pump, and lower ratio overdrive from an IS300, and a 3k stall converter.

Now going in:
AP Racing twin disk 7.25" clutch on 8 pound flywheel.
HPI close ratio 6-speed with Ikea sequential shifter.

Driveshaft Shop custom 1-piece drive shaft.
Diff:
Street & Road Course - JDM helical LSD (Torsen) & 4.56 gear set.
(I originally had this gear set for every thing, but not sure how it’s going to work with the 6-speed.)

I have a bunch of other gear sets, from 3.7 up to 5.3 ratios

Electronics were:
Modified ECU - Rev Limiter bumped from 6500, to 8500.
Apex-i S-AFC.
Apex-i Super ITC.
Crane Hi-6 ignition box.
ACCEL 140010 CD coil (labled 'Lethal Voltage’)
ACCEL 300+ 8.8mm plug wires.
ACCEL Tach Adaptor
HKS Rev-Ad.

Engine management will now be an AEM Infinity-6, but the S-AFC stays so that I can tweak the fuel curve without plugging into a laptop.

The Crane box stays, along with the plug wires.

Have got my hands on an oil cooled Crane CDI coil, so the Accel won’t be run any longer. They had a problem of over heating on anything other than a drag car.

 

[Gordo]

 

[karlac]

Howdy

 

[mdf9183]

Welcome from Bastrop, Texas

 

[TipBledsoe]

Very nice intro. Welcome neighbor!

 

[Gordo]

That is one thing I've always liked about Texas, people are so friendly here.
Some other states are like, well like AR15.com...

 

[studenygreg]

Hola

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[Vaquero]

Howdy

 

[Tnhawk]

That is one thing I've always liked about Texas, people are so friendly here.
Some other states are like, well like AR15.com...

After living in TN for over 30 years I really appreciate the difference in the people of Texas and other states,

 

[magholder]

Welcome!

 

[Zapp]

Electronics were:
Modified ECU - Rev Limiter bumped from 6500, to 8500.
Apex-i S-AFC.
Apex-i Super ITC.
Crane Hi-6 ignition box.
ACCEL 140010 CD coil (labled 'Lethal Voltage’)
ACCEL 300+ 8.8mm plug wires.
ACCEL Tach Adaptor
HKS Rev-Ad.

Engine management will now be an AEM Infinity-6, but the S-AFC stays so that I can tweak the fuel curve without plugging into a laptop.

The Crane box stays, along with the plug wires.

Have got my hands on an oil cooled Crane CDI coil, so the Accel won’t be run any longer. They had a problem of over heating on anything other than a drag car.

Is the Infinity-6 going to be used with the stock distributor and Hi-6?

I remember using the S-AFC a long time ago, in my GSX. Back then everyone did the blue wire mod to read the O2 sensor, but I am guessing you will have something better to read the AFR for your AEM.

 

[prisondoc]

Welcome to the forum.

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[Gordo]

@Zapp
That is the plan.
My son keeps trying to get me to go coil-on-plug, but none of those coils come close to the Crane CD coil output.
I will have to vent the distributor, to keep from it filling up with ionized gas, as that is how cross firing happens.
Have been running the Innovate air/fuel meter, and data log the info on a laptop.
Hell of a lot easier than what I was doing on bikes 40 years ago, running it hard,
and locking the brakes to get an instant plug reading

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