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Bronco Boy's 2002 GT

I wanted something to mod, and payed 400 for my GTP in the yard. put ~300 into it got it inspected and started driving it.
Now im overhauling the gaskets and a BUNCH of other stuff... but besides the point. Not my DD so I could get a junker


Still kinda wish I had of gotten the tbird, RWD and they just look cool
 


RWD, Posi on every one, 2 position shocks adjustable from inside the interior and automatically, 13PSI stock with intercooler, Aluminum heads, 5 speed! 140 mph top speed bone stock! lots of Go fast goodness for them and can make 300HP real easy. People complain about head gaskets, but I don't ever remember someone chipping a piston. They were state of the art cars. Hell the only reason I didn't get another one was needed a 4 door.

Jeff
 
J57ltr said:
RWD, Posi on every one, 2 position shocks adjustable from inside the interior and automatically, 13PSI stock with intercooler, Aluminum heads, 5 speed! 140 mph top speed bone stock! lots of Go fast goodness for them and can make 300HP real easy. People complain about head gaskets, but I don't ever remember someone chipping a piston. They were state of the art cars. Hell the only reason I didn't get another one was needed a 4 door.

Jeff
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weren't they slow stock though? like 7.5 0-60?
 
Mine had a blown head gasket when I bought. 20+ hours later she was back on the road. I only saw 8-9psi, and when I did the CAI I saw 9-10psi. 0-60 is 15-16 seconds, so they aren't crazy fast. Still a damn fun car.
 
They would run a 15.4 stock with about a 2.1 60' stock. The biggest things with those cars was the resonator it was a dual in single out and just removing the resonator and and catback replacing it with resonator with a Flomaster dual in single our was worth 25 HP it was hobbled from the factory so as not to have a higher output than the Mustang. The other weak areas were the intake Helmholtz Resonator under the airbox to reduce the intake whine. This was worth 5-7hp and a raised top was worth about the same so by the time you did those mods you had a 250Hp engine before touching the Keyed pulley, just undo the nut and slide another on, no press fit no modular hub. Lots of guys ran 300WHP with modified stock manifolds although there were long tube headers they ran about $700 for a set of Kooks. When I got on that board in the late 90's it was rare to see a 13 second SC now there are guys running 10's as their DD's tons of 12 and 11 second cars. For us 5 speed guys we just had to rob the pumpkin out of an Auto SC as they had 3.27:1 where the 5 speed had a 2.73:1. The SC engine was an engine unto itself and nothing swapped between the regular 3.8 and the SC engine. High nickle block Forged crank thicker deck on the heads different valves, springs. It's internally balanced, the list goes on. The car is heavy though I had mine on the scale and it was 3950 with me and a full tank, but everything not bolted down out. And with the stock 2.77:1 drive ratio the supercharger really screams....... I've said enough...
 
Bronco Boy said:
Mine had a blown head gasket when I bought. 20+ hours later she was back on the road. I only saw 8-9psi, and when I did the CAI I saw 9-10psi. 0-60 is 15-16 seconds, so they aren't crazy fast. Still a damn fun car.
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If you only had 8-9 psi you had a lot of boost leaks, 13 is stock.
 


Bronco Boy said:
Mine had a blown head gasket when I bought. 20+ hours later she was back on the road. I only saw 8-9psi, and when I did the CAI I saw 9-10psi. 0-60 is 15-16 seconds, so they aren't crazy fast. Still a damn fun car.
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If you only had 8-9 psi you had a lot of boost leaks, 13 is stock.

Well if you are above about 1000' then the boost is going to be lower. With a CAI you will hit 13. When I got my car it would only do 8 psi and I am less than 100' above sea level. So I started looking into boost leaks sealing up the IC tubes, removing the crosstalk tube, and sealing all the vacuum lines and got it back to 13 and the car came alive. During the summer I would lose 1-2 psi if I was heat soaked, but around this time of year the cars come alive. I swapped to a 94-95 blower with modified inlet and a modified (Mustang) 75mm BBK TB and 76mm C&L MAF and was seeing 15psi.
 
J57ltr said:
If you only had 8-9 psi you had a lot of boost leaks, 13 is stock.

Well if you are above about 1000' then the boost is going to be lower. With a CAI you will hit 13. When I got my car it would only do 8 psi and I am less than 100' above sea level. So I started looking into boost leaks sealing up the IC tubes, removing the crosstalk tube, and sealing all the vacuum lines and got it back to 13 and the car came alive. During the summer I would lose 1-2 psi if I was heat soaked, but around this time of year the cars come alive. I swapped to a 94-95 blower with modified inlet and a modified (Mustang) 75mm BBK TB and 76mm C&L MAF and was seeing 15psi.
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I'm 50-100' above sea level here. To bad I didn't know about this earlier so I could have spent days looking for leaks. LOL
 
It's hard to find boost leaks. You don't have to deal with that on the GP, but the SC has so many connections that it's ridiculous. SC to top, Top nut (275 ft/lbs) to Upper pipe, upper pipe to IC, IC, to lower pipe, Lower pipe to manifold adapter, msnifold adapter to LIM. Then you have all the vacuum lines, and when they get old they act as a check-valve. The intake is really restrictive too. But it was the first time I had ever heard of a boost leak, where when the system is under vacuum it doesn't leak, but under pressure it does.
I actually traded an S-10 for the SC because the kid couldn't put it back together after putting on a new PS pump. I ended up using the old factory IC Teflon because I didn't know better and it sealed pretty well. I remember the first drive I went out on a deserted road and gave it all she had and remember shifting out of 3rd at 120. Not long after that I started getting a miss but only when I got to 5 psi then progressively got worse every mechanic I spoke with had all kinds of hair brained ideas, but after finding the forum it was asked a million times and saw right away I needed plugs and wires. After that she ran like a champ. I started getting into blower porting and stuff like that and didn't at the time have the fab ability I have now but it was a fun and fast car. I remember a friend coming up to the shop and he was talking about how heavy the car was and a bunch of smack and how his civic would beat it (it didn't) and I asked can your civic do this and drove away into the parking lot and turned the wheel gave it a little rev and dropped the clutch and cut 2 nice doughnuts and drove through the smoke. It really surprised him.
 


The Canadian SC's had the better restraint system for sure. Nothing like putting your head out the window and opening it and having the upper restraint pin you to the concrete. Lol.
 
You guys talking about the seatbelts on the window frame of the door? Man those sucked so hard they could take the chrome off a trailer hitch ball ha ha.

An xgf had a new 5.0 91 XR7 5sp. I had so much fun with it I knocked a "city titty" (the big tall yellow lumps used on roads to separate turn lanes) loose!
 
idrivejunk said:
You guys talking about the seatbelts on the window frame of the door? Man those sucked so hard they could take the chrome off a trailer hitch ball ha ha!
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Them is the ones. LOL

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It's even worse that that, the SC seat belt is on a track and moves back over your shoulder and goes forward to the front so you can get out. it's a 2 piece belt. Lap belt is separate. If you get out of the car too fast it catches you on the face and tries to strangle you. Lol

Jeff
 


Theres some real spaztards coming out of design school... man those were silly and could hurt. They made doors a PITA to work on!
 
J57ltr said:
It's even worse that that, the SC seat belt is on a track and moves back over your shoulder and goes forward to the front so you can get out. it's a 2 piece belt. Lap belt is separate. If you get out of the car too fast it catches you on the face and tries to strangle you. Lol

Jeff
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This car vvvv has seperate lap and shoulder belts. Fortunately if you don't want the shoulder belt you have a choice (folds up in holder at headliner edge) but those auto shoulder belts might really hang a person who gets in a hurry. The kind that unbuckle at the top make more sense but still leave something to hit your head on.
 
J57ltr said:
It's even worse that that, the SC seat belt is on a track and moves back over your shoulder and goes forward to the front so you can get out. it's a 2 piece belt. Lap belt is separate. If you get out of the car too fast it catches you on the face and tries to strangle you. Lol
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I forgot about those. Now I'm really glad my SC was Canadian. LOL
 
Got the snow tires on; bring on the snow! :th_laugh-lol2:

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The lug nuts stick out quite a bit more on these wheels (compared to the Torque-Stars and Snowflakes)

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