THE REAPER-
So many of you have probably been asking yourself who bought it, what happened to it, whats going on. Well I am here to answer those questions. Last year when John Higgens put it up for sale I honestly had no idea what the car meant to the commnunity and my plans were to clean it and race it, what it was ment to do. I figured I would go a little further and rebuild the whole car from the ground up. Since the car was a nothern car for a little while it had some cancer that had to be dealt with but nothing on the frame of the car which was most important. So after picking up the car last may I decided to get down and dirty and get this car back up to tip top shape and start racing it. Since the paint job wassnt too bad I decided to leave it and make it more of a functional car then a show car. First was first rip everything out, motor, suspension, exhaust, interior. I mean everything came out of the car. We then built a dolly for the car to ride on and continued the deconstruction. Once the car was torn down we had to think " what do we wanna do". I was thinking of just fixing what was broken and go on but then I saw boosted aka Fetter build and got inspired. WE knew we were going to add a cage for saftey and a built motor for sure. After a few moths of working on the suspension we decided to do a 5 speed swap, no real track car is an AUTO. So we cut the old brackets off and welded on 5 speed units. After that we worked our way to the motor trying to figure out if we should go turbo NA or Super. WE dicided to keep to the original theme of car TURBO. A dry sump system was needed to help aid in longevity of a track motor. After 1 year and 2 months and tens of thousands spent, the car is running and on the road. Now its not 100% done. It needs a few small touch ups and a tune. For the most part its done. Here is the list of what we have done.
So many of you probably dont know but Jeff and I have teamed up on bulding parts. He is much better as a salesman then myself and we work very well together. This was was built to test all of our parts from oil caps to rear delrin bushings. WE have also started another site Phenolicspacersonline.com check it out.This is the the new REAPER
Most of these items will be available on the site. you will have to e-mail me directly. Also I would like to thank the community as a whole for helping me witht this build its deffiniely been fun. A special thanks to Brad Wheeler he was a big help with motor specs as we worked on desiging the Pistons and Cam system, John Higgen he is an amazing person with a dam computer and HPT, Jeff Lawson well u helped me with pretty much the whole dam build. Kyle aka KYLE you helped a ton witht the trans position. I am sure I am missing people, if I did please forgive me.
Transmission
1. 5 speed swap to a getrag 2002
2. quaife LSD
3. Spec stage 4 6 puck cluch Unsprung clutch
4. RKS flywheel
5. Rebuilt and inspected getrag
6 Custom fit LD9 jackshaft.
Motor
1. Bored .060 over 96 factory Block
2. Hot tanked block
3. CP Custom made pistons ( Flat tops, with Swain tech top and side coating)
4.Total seal CP rings, Chrome moly gapped for turbo
5.Crower Rods
6. Deleted Balance shafts
7. Compltetely balanced rotating assembly
8. DRY sump oil system with 8 qt tank
9. OIl cooler
10. SBC oil filter
11.Deleted factory waterpump
12. Electric waterpump
13. Cometic .035 head gasket
14. 02 ld9 Head Ported and Polished with SS valve 1mm Oversized and Bronxe valve guides
15. HO springs
16. TI retainers
17. Custom made TI spacers for exhaust springs
18. Custom made dry sump pan with heat sinks
19. HO cams and Cam carriers
20. Dleted PS pump system and installed Steering rack with liner bearings and precision ball screws
21. Tial Wastegate
22. Tail BOV
23. 3" core Radiator
Fuel
1. Custom mounted Fuel Cell 10 gallon
2. Dual external Walbro 255 pumps
3. -6 feed and -6 return to tank
4. Fuel LAB AFPR
5. 36 # green top injectos ( for now)
6. 80# siemens Deka ( after tune)
7. Fuel Lab High flow fuel filter
8. Moroso high flow fliter and check valve ( secondary)
Suspension
1. Custom made Koni suspension with koni race ( not regular yellows)
2. Hypercoil front and rear 750-800 spring rate
3. Custom made K brace
4. Custom made rear Triagulated brace
5. Engine weld in strut bars
6. Modified rear torsion beam with bigger rod and boxed in and weight reduced
7. OEM made control arms
Interior
1. Completely gutted
2. 10point cage
3. Sparco seats
4. Autometer boost, oil, oil temp, water temp EGT and Wideband gauges
5. Scrotch 3" 6 point harnesses
6. Emergency Battery cut off switch
7. Red top with custom bracket
Extras
1. All fittings are AN fittings with Nylon race hose - Fragola
2. BBS 2 piece wheels with BFG kdw ties for causal driving
3. Race wheels and tires not yet decied on
4. Custom made projector head light ( waiting on John Benham
)
5.Wilwood 4 piston brakes and 2 piece rotors ( not the normal kit, normal kit wouldnt work)
6. N body front knuckle swap
7. Custom made bump steer kit
8. UNdercarriage brace
Onto pics. More pics later on.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edited Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:13 AM
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