Dude, that a gnarly eye cut. I hope you spoke to the other parent and straightened that out. I'd probably do a Pacquiao on the other kids father. Good thing I have an oversized son and not a daughter.

Make that the "DEEP DIRTY SOUTH". Running with ManBearPig at 130+ headed towards APR was a trip for sure. Half Man, Half Bear and Half Pig.

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The car is pretty strong, make that very strong. I need to add it to a "projects page" on my website along with the other five I've built.

Been framing the walls for my office and fab shop this week...last of the warm weather here for sure. We hit 72 F today. Soon I will be onto the finished wiring and sheetrock.

Claudia takes after both of us I think, but probably more after me. She did get her Mom's light skin.

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John and Abby,
Please get that bad boy strapped down pronto. You need to make a build thread.

Abby,
This has been such a long, and sometimes emotionaly difficult project, the masses should hear about. Most lesser men would have given up. Kudos to you for staying with it. :cheers:

Mark,
My family is in town through next weekend. After that, lets plan on getting your orange car buttoned up so we can do some road tuning. Get the hatch and sunroof painted now so we can put it together.

72 degrees :O

We have 32 and snow!!
I'm jealous, my car is tucked away for the winter.

Hmmm, you most likely do not want to hear we have the air conditioner on do you? 2 Weeks ago it hit 94 degrees one day and late the following day it was 29. But today promises to be 85+ but dropping to rain and 38 degrees on thanksgiving night. Interesting having to run AC and heat on the same day. But, I keep reminding myself "you don't have to shovel hot air". And all us Texan's have sufficent hot air?

No, I did not want to hear that.

I'll dyno it again after the holidays.

I wouldn't even know where to begin in telling the build story:confused:

Hurricane Katrina, birth of a child, moving out of state...and back, job changes PLUS all the challenges of sorting out such a large endeavor on a 928. I'm just really glad to finally have it running very well and I"m enjoying driving it.

It's been a long road for Abby for sure. When he picked up the car from me here in KY my wife was just pregnant a month or two with Claudia.

I'm glad to hear it has worked out well in the end. I'm sure there is some clean up to do here and there, but the car runs really good and pulls hard...and that's from a guy who's doing front mount systems only!

I know this car will give just about any boosted 928 a run for its money. She makes good boost by 3,500 or so and it seems to pull out strong all the way upstairs.

It should make some good numbers...judging by where we were hitting on the SuperMAF I would estimate on 8.5 psig the car to be making somewhere around 475 ponies on the tarmac. With those cams it is very strong in the middle...my guess is close to 475 ft-lbs...maybe even more.

So many life changes and major events made all the challenges of the car hard to focus on.

I will never be able to thank Herr-Kuhn enough for all of his help getting it ironed out, as well as his engineering of critical parts to the final system!!

It's likely making above 488ftlbs since we got that # on the dyno in Cincinnatti. And you had not even touched the ignition. We'll know soon.

Looks like you're swinging some big meat around now. Turbo torque is hard to argue with. Best part is you can short shift the car and still erase just about anything on the road. I'll never forget the look on the M3 driver's face when I first drove my car on a crude state of tune on 8 psig right past him like he was standing still. He had just finished telling me how the car was "sport bike quick" back at the gym and was acting all high and mighty about it. I never mentioned my car...just dropped the hammer leaving the place and watched him squirm. About 6+ car lengths in 0.2 miles. You'd be amazed to see how a turbo 928 pulls past a 600 sport bike upstairs too. Better bring an 1100 if you want to really outrun ManBearPig now.

Put the drag radials on, and WOW! What a difference! I'll be calling around this week looking for a dyno shop.

Whilst you're having fun with drag radials, et. al, I am freezing my arse off this entire weekend framing the inside of my new office and workshop...the furnace and AC are in, BUT even at 70,000 BTUs, the heat just likes to flow right out the ridge vent on the top of the roof. A few more weeks, some sheet rock and insulation should make things slightly more comfortable. We are already down into the 20s for highs...that's the part I hate about KY. It's too cold to do warm weather stuff in the winter, but not cold enough for snow sports. I still wish I'd kept my ski-doo when I moved down here from NH since we still get those days where it'll drop a foot plus on a big storm. We used to ride them on the streets in NH during the big storms...I nearly got busted one time but I hid the sled under a white sheet and the cop never saw me, even with his flood light...the sled was bright orange too!

Remember, there is likely more power to be had by increasing your ignition a bit. It's not ultra conservative, but might be able to stand 2-3 more degrees and I've seen that open up 30+ HP on a turbo V8. It's better to err conservative because you have no knock control.