Okay, so a little background on this project...
I bought the dark green 95 EGT when My girlfriends Kia was rear ended by a jeep and she needed to drive something while her car was repaired. I thought it would be a great temporary vehicle that would then be parted out for spares and donor parts for the 4wd. Then I decided I loved it too much to get rid of it so I drove it for 4 or 5 months.
Fast forward to a couple months ago when I found another green 95 EGT for the same price. This one had half the miles, and didn't burn a quart of 20w50 every gas tank like the dark green car did. I bought it, transferred the mods from the dark car to the new light car, and then stripped the dark green car to bare bones, I kept every single fastener on the car, as well as all mechanical parts and all good body parts, and cut it into 10 pieces to load into the back of a truck.
I took the new 95 to the race track to get a baseline 1/4mile ET, and was pretty embarrased by it's 19.7 best time. This altitude sucks for performance and the car is an auto so whatever.
Fast forward to last week, I was headed to work and a Turbo Saab pulled up next to me at a light. We screwed around a little, and he really wasn't that much faster than me when we ran from a 35mph roll, (killed me on the standing start though) so I decided that I was going to supercharge the new 95.
The very next day was my 1 day off for the week, so I did it. I worked from 9AM to 11PM including trips to both Ford and GM dealerships for gaskets, and a trip to Advance Auto for some NGK BKR7E plugs, Mobil 1 Full synthetic 5w20, and a Mobil 1 filter. Total on gaskets, oil, filter, and plugs was like $65, and I spent $650 on the supercharger as a bolt-on kit, so $715 was the total to add boost, do an oil change and a minor tune up.
I gapped the plugs to 35, built a U/K Hybrid AFM, and used a 12:1 Vortech FMU for tuning. I have 330cc injectors, and am running the distributor fully advanced on E85 @ 8psi from 2000-7500rpm.
I have so far run a best of 16.888 @ 84mph, with the best 60' time of 2.6xx down from 3.1xx, but that was with street tires @ 51psi all around, decent tire spin, and a few small hiccups. I am saving for a set of Dunlop Direzza Z1 star spec's that I will mount to my set of directional EGT fanblades... They should get me the traction that I need to put the power down. Then I am going to save up for a set of 460cc's and a 2.4" pulley from pulleyboys.com which should net about 14psi. And if it gets too tricky to tune on the NA ecu, I also have a PNP megasquirt from LEX, that I was going to use to tune a turbo motor in the 4wd, but I may go with a high compression N/A BP w/ITB setup in that car so we'll see.
This should put the car (hopefully) into the low 14's which would be like a 13.5ish in topeka (2800' vs 5800' elevation). And after that I plan on building a hybrid Kia trans with an mfactory LSD, since I have all the 5speed swap parts in my garage. Maybe 13's would be possible @ Bandimere (5800')?!!
Anyway, talk is cheap, here is the mod-list for the car, then on to the good part; PICS!!!
Engine-
.Eaton M62 positive displacement blower from 95 Pontiac
.U/K Hybrid AFM, heavily tuned
.Custom Cold air intake w/F350 charge pipes
.330cc injectors (squirting E85)
.12:1 FMU
.NGK BKR7E plugs gapped @ 35
Tranny-
.Stock slush-box
.external tranny cooler coming soon
Suspension-
.Tokico S/R struts (perches removed)
.Ebay coilover perches (springs ditched)
.H&R 8" #250F and 8" #200R springs
.3rd gen front swaybar w/ ES poly bushings and endlinks
.Intrax 24mm rear swaybar w/poly bushings and endlinks
.MX3 rear tie bar
.Corksport Rear strut tower bar (have front but it won't fit over the blower)
.Soon... custom triangulated front strut tower bar to clear supercharger
.Eventually... Pierce MotorSports 4pt front tie bar
Exterior-
.the sleeper effect,
........Multi-color body panels including LX grille and spoilerless/badgeless 4dr hatch
.stock exhaust
.Protege DX manual mirrors
.3000k HIDs
.All-red Tails
Rolling Gear-
.BMW bottlecaps w/ blizzaks
.90 Miata daisies w/ el-cheapo all seasons
.95 7-spoke EGT's w/ el-cheapo all seasons x 2 full sets
.91 non-directional GT fanblades w/Studded Altimax'
.93 directional GT fanblades w/ Dunlop Z1 star-spec's coming soon
.89 miata steelies w/beauty rings +el cheapo all season's (sleeper wheels)
.few other sets that I still need to find... wheel whore. (MX3 gs's, integra ls's, old-school panasports, and something in either 16" or 17")
Interior-
.95 MX3 black carpet
.92 MX3 black recaro Buckets
.92 PLX black rear bench
.95 Probe Grey Manual Seatbelt conversion
.93 PLX charcoal "storage" Shifter console
.95 MX3 "deep-well" handbrake console/armrest
.Poineer CD player w/direct I P O D control
.Alpine s-type front speakers
.Pioneer Rear speakers
.Leather wrapped 95 EGT wheel, on non-tilt column, lowered 1.5"
Now on to the PICS!!!
And this was the 20w50 smoker:
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