Hey guys, sorry I've been absent for a while. Been busy with work and what not. I recently got promoted to SSgt/E6, which is a nice pay raise for me. I finally got my short block built and she's just sitting in my garage waiting for more parts so I can put her together. I think that's all that's been going on with me. Oh yeah, the specs on the shortblock. I'm using a cobra iron block with cp pistons, oliver billet rods, kellog stroker crank, melling oil pump and arp hardware. So she'll take a beating. Also need to get either new turbos or rebuild my current ones. Anywho, here are some pics of the shortblock.

 

damn i love your car, i cant wait to see what kind of power you will have when your all done!!!

 

Yo

 

Nice setup on the motor what compression is it? Also I like the "custom" painting in the valley.

 

Looking good man!

Good to see you back! Congrats on passing the line test

 

Welcome back swervo. Did you get to Myrtle Beach in July? Mustangs a plenty in that 1 week. Everyone would've heard you coming that's for sure..

 

It seems like you have been gone for a year here.

 

yo man!!!! miss seeing ya around these parts. Looks like the mach is coming together slowly but surely. man....i can still remember your MG gt you had back in the day. lol

dont be a stranger. i wanna see this build go go go!!!!!!

 

Thanks. No test for me, it was all up to the selection board and thousands of my peers.

No I didn't make it. I was at one of my PME schools so I couldnt go.

Yeah it's coming along slowly, real slow. lol.

 

I think swervo and I got our mach's around the same time....we both added exhaust and some other goodies, and well I sold my mach and he's continued to build his up to probably one of the nicest mach's I've ever seen. Congrats man

 

And probably one of the loudest stangs out there. There's a blue Mach here in my town that rasps my ears everytime i get next to him. SLP's no doubt. Make a new vid, swervo
when you get her all finished.

 

That's funny you mention a blue mach cause not to long ago I pulled up to one and the freaking exhaust when he took of freaking made my ears hurt....I hate SLP.

 

Love the art work lol. What happened to the turbos that they need a rebuild?

 

the seals went out on me, so she smokes all the time now.

 

hey. Sweet build update. I was just wondering the other day what was up with your car, the last I remember of you was when you got the fr500's.
what #s you expect once it's all built assuming you up the boost?

 

Thats crazy, keep them away from the cigs

 

my eventual goal is 700 on pump gas and 800+ on race gas.

 

Shouldnt be hard with that set up. good luck

 

hey swervo, gotta Q.

Why is it that when mach owners build their motors they go with cobra blocks rather than keeping the lighter stockers? Am I missled in thinking our blocks will safely handle more than your power goals?
Part of the answer could be that they buy a shortblock, which most always is built with iron, but am I going down the wrong road in building my aluminum block?

 

Well, I did it because I needed a second block, and the aluminum ones were more expensive. Plus, the iron block are quite stout. If you can find a teksid block, the newer 05+, or aluminator block, you should use them for your build. Our WAP blocks aren't that great.