I'll start off with my list of modifications. Ported cylinder head, crower stage II cans, JB a full length header, 10 1/2 to one compression, 65 mm throttle body with Iceman intake and all the bolts on.
With all these mods are pulled to the DYno and we did a run from 2500 to 6500 RPM. Here's the big numbers car cranked out an amazing jaw-dropping 109 horsepower and 124 pound feet of torque.
We did ten dyno pulls adjusting the exhaust cam first. Which end up maxing my teeth on the exhaust cam at 10° . Do make a note of it, that the exhaust side was max. By the time all was done I was plus 10 exhaust,minus 3° on the intake side. The final numbers were 144 hp and 146 foot pounds of torque. Amazing gains with the Dyno tune. Easily the best money spent on this whole ordeal.
It's almost impossible to describe the difference in the way this car drives mile in from two days ago. I've been studying and doing some research and it leads me to believe that there is a lot more left in this car as it sits. I'll get into that later but one of the things that you'd all should know is that the car gained 50 front wheel horsepower after the tires at 6500 RPMs. amazing. ALSO, the car never stopped making hp...curve goes up and its only stopped by the cut-off
Something that I saw that interest me was my peak torque I am reaching my peak torque at 4000 RPMs and it stays pretty flat from there on. It does start fall off a bit around's 6000 RPMs but it never completely drops off. I thought the zetec manifolds should peak its torque around 44 to 4500 RPMs. If this is true then that means I should be able to dial the cams in a bit to move that torque curve a bit higher. If I could just move the curve to the right 300 RPMs the results would be pretty amazing. 500 would be a dream come true.
I feel that at this point the intake manifold is holding me back. The car wants to read but I hit my limiter around 6500. Well I should say I haven't read the past 6500 at this point.
The interesting thing is that I hit my peak horsepower at 5800 RPMs and it goes tabletop flat until 6500 ends bikes just a bit higher when I let off at 6500 .
Personally, I've never seen a car that peaks horsepower for almost 1000 RPMs that didn't have a restriction in the system somewhere. When I look at the overall combination. The only thing stock on this car is the intake manifold. I think 150 will horsepower would be possible with a different intake manifold on this car. Maybe even adjusting the gears a bit will give me 150 fwhp but it's got to be there.
What do you guys think is next, just how much power and torque should a stock 2000 manifold support,? I'm really thinking about SVT focus manifold at this point. I'm very happy with the combination as it sits, but as I mentioned earlier I think there's more in it. When I asked you to note the fact that I maxed out the exhaust cams, I think I should set the cam gear back to zero as they sit on the exh cam and tune some more.
I just feel that either the cams can be tuned more to move the power band or the intake manifold is nearing its max cfm. Maybe neither maybe both who knows but that peak torque coming on So low leads me to believe that there is more in the combination. But again as it sits I am very happy. Any suggestion guys, or questions? Let me know thanks
With all these mods are pulled to the DYno and we did a run from 2500 to 6500 RPM. Here's the big numbers car cranked out an amazing jaw-dropping 109 horsepower and 124 pound feet of torque.
We did ten dyno pulls adjusting the exhaust cam first. Which end up maxing my teeth on the exhaust cam at 10° . Do make a note of it, that the exhaust side was max. By the time all was done I was plus 10 exhaust,minus 3° on the intake side. The final numbers were 144 hp and 146 foot pounds of torque. Amazing gains with the Dyno tune. Easily the best money spent on this whole ordeal.
It's almost impossible to describe the difference in the way this car drives mile in from two days ago. I've been studying and doing some research and it leads me to believe that there is a lot more left in this car as it sits. I'll get into that later but one of the things that you'd all should know is that the car gained 50 front wheel horsepower after the tires at 6500 RPMs. amazing. ALSO, the car never stopped making hp...curve goes up and its only stopped by the cut-off
Something that I saw that interest me was my peak torque I am reaching my peak torque at 4000 RPMs and it stays pretty flat from there on. It does start fall off a bit around's 6000 RPMs but it never completely drops off. I thought the zetec manifolds should peak its torque around 44 to 4500 RPMs. If this is true then that means I should be able to dial the cams in a bit to move that torque curve a bit higher. If I could just move the curve to the right 300 RPMs the results would be pretty amazing. 500 would be a dream come true.
I feel that at this point the intake manifold is holding me back. The car wants to read but I hit my limiter around 6500. Well I should say I haven't read the past 6500 at this point.
The interesting thing is that I hit my peak horsepower at 5800 RPMs and it goes tabletop flat until 6500 ends bikes just a bit higher when I let off at 6500 .
Personally, I've never seen a car that peaks horsepower for almost 1000 RPMs that didn't have a restriction in the system somewhere. When I look at the overall combination. The only thing stock on this car is the intake manifold. I think 150 will horsepower would be possible with a different intake manifold on this car. Maybe even adjusting the gears a bit will give me 150 fwhp but it's got to be there.
What do you guys think is next, just how much power and torque should a stock 2000 manifold support,? I'm really thinking about SVT focus manifold at this point. I'm very happy with the combination as it sits, but as I mentioned earlier I think there's more in it. When I asked you to note the fact that I maxed out the exhaust cams, I think I should set the cam gear back to zero as they sit on the exh cam and tune some more.
I just feel that either the cams can be tuned more to move the power band or the intake manifold is nearing its max cfm. Maybe neither maybe both who knows but that peak torque coming on So low leads me to believe that there is more in the combination. But again as it sits I am very happy. Any suggestion guys, or questions? Let me know thanks
