Check out the car In HOT ROD Magazine, August 2008 Issue. We had the car at the Hot Rod Magazine Top Speed Challenge!

 

 

 

 

 

 

DONNIE'S MEMORIAL CRUISE 2007

 UPDATE- 2008 EVENTS:

 Just to recap a little for those who don't know me. I've owned my 1987 Camaro IROC-Z with the 305 HO TPI, Borg Warner T-5 and 10-bolt 1LE differential for about 5-6 years. I run a tire, service, performance store and we have on and off played with the car to see what we can do to maximize the car as a bolt on only project. I had no success with the differential and modified the internals as well as created a few parts to strengthen the smaller axle shaft tubes to make a pretty darn bullet proof differential without moving to a 12 bolt or the Ford nine inch conversion (not to fond of putting Ford into Chevy or Chevy into Ford). The detailed pictures and specs are on the 3rd page.

 

  

 

 

 My Sweet Heart and me at SEMA Show in Las Vegas 2005!!!

 

Some old dyno runs on the stock 305! That is Donnie Levens leaning on the chair behind Wayne (Rest in Peace)...NICE WHEELS NUMBERS THAT DAY! 

 

 

Pics of the car at the body shop. Rich is a show car painter and sure did a fantastic job! Thanks for the hard work Rich...

I love taking the car to shows just to get the reaction factor. The Car has been to several shows this year but some notible show are HIN, and HT LIVE. Car place 1st Hottest General Motors at HIN. The car placed Hottest Domestic and Mild 2dr 3rd place at GT Live. SUP!

 

  

 

 

MOVIE- FAYETTEVILLE DRAG STRIP - WINTER 2007 1/4 ET 11.94 MPH 117

 

 

2 FAST 2 FURIOUS - BEST IN SHOW, DROP JAW MAG PROMOTIONS 2005

 

 

Time for the new motor! Took the original 305 to a massive (lol) 315 cid four bolt splay conversion

  

 

 

NOW THE MOTOR

 

 

TIME FOR THE SAFETY STUFF. FIRST THE CAGE-

 

Now you see it, now ya don't!

 

 

First the tear down and new tubular front end with bigger brakes

 

19x8 Auto Art 3 piece VY design front
19x10 Auto Art 3 piece VY design rear
275/35ZR19 Bridgestone Pontenza RE050
295/35ZR19 Bridgestone Pontenza RE050

SUSPENSION-

BMR Tubular K-Member
BMR Tubular Lower Control Arms
Eibach Sportline spring kit
KYB Adjustable front Struts and rear shocks
Energy Suspension urethane bushing kit – full car
Hotchkis front strut brace
Hotchkis front and rear sway bars
Hotchkis tie rod connectors
Hotchkis sub frame connectors
Hotchkis adjustable pan rod bar
Hotchkis trailing arms
Spohn Performance caster/camber plates
Edlebrock adjustable torque arm
Competition Engineering 12-point roll cage
Manual S-10 gearbox swap

BRAKES-

Baer Track Plus front and rear
Holley line lock

DRIVETRAIN-

Center Force DX Clutch System
Center Force SFI flywheel
Borg-Warner T-5 World Class Transmission (AXED)
B&M short throw shifter
Inland Empire Driveline aluminum driveshaft
CT Tuners custom 10 bolt-
Moser Street/Strip axles
Richmond 2.73 gears
Richmond Power Trax locker system
Moroso pro wheel stud kit
Custom Summit aluminum diff cover w/ fabricated supports
SPC fabricated tube supports

INTERIOR MODS-

Sparco Torino seats
Sparco Steering wheel
Sparco aluminum pedals
Sparco shift knob
G-Force 5-point cam lock harnesses
G-Force Window net kit
G-Force arm restraints
Ignited carbon fiber switch panel
White gauge kit
Autometer double pillar gauge pod
Autometer Phantom air/fuel ratio meter
Autometer Phantom 30psi boost gauge
Autometer Phantom NOS/Cryo gauge
Autometer shift light
MSD digital 6 ignition control
MSD knock sensor meter
APC blue fire bottle

SOUND (ICE)-

Sony flush mount CD changer
JBL Audio 3x5 w/ titanium tweeter
JBL Audio 6x9 w/ titanium tweeter

EXTERIOR MODS-

Custom paint by Rich Antoneck
Carbon Creations universal side splitters
Carbon Creations fabricated rear under car diffuser
Clear parking lights
Clear turn signals
Fiberglass IROC cowl induction hood
Custom Vinyl by Right On Signs

ENGINE MANAGEMENT-

O.E. General Motors
My own creation of a FIC with 150 lbs Accel fuel injectors (2 bar map)

NUMBERS (old)-

626 horse power / 715 ft lbs torque gross 3.13 pulley on a 305cid Tuned Port Injection w/ OE H.O. motor (cast internals).

ENGINE-

Vortech V7-Ysi supercharger
Vortech Polished intake elbow
Vortech Super FMU
Vortech altered blower bracket
ASP fabricated custom carbon fiber poly cogg system
TIAL 50.5mm blow off valve
Spearco 6 core sheet metal after cooler
AEM custom blower intake
Lingenfelter matched fuel injectors
Altered GM fuel rails with fabricated adapters
MARCH polished aluminum pulley and bracket set
TCI Rattler harmonic balancer
Moroso blower return oil pan
Moroso polished aluminum valve covers
MSD billet distributor
MSD Blaster coil
MSD Boost Timing Master
Crane Cam roller camshaft
Comp Cam non-pump up roller lifters
Taylor 10.4mm Pro ignition wires w/ keepers
K&N chrome breather
Optima Spiralcell Red top battery
Be Cool catch can
Hooker Header ceramic big-tube headers w/ O2 sensor mod
Mandrel 3-inch dual exhaust w/ “H” pipe
Flow Master 40 series dual mufflers
Holley 58mm dual port throttle body
Aeromotive fuel pump A1001
Aeromotive fuel pump controller
SLP altered and ported polished runners
Custom altered and ported top and base plenum
Carbon Creations engine compartment accents
Moroso solid engine mounts
Moroso oil cooler
Moroso high flow water pump
Polished alternator
Accel Phantom fuel pressure gauge w/ chrome cup

PRIMARY NUMBERS-

848 ft-lbs torque 3.33 pulley / 945 ft lbs torque 2.85 pulley on 305cid Tuned Port
Injection w/ race internals.

PRIMARY ENGINE-

SRP flat top forged piston set
Swain Technology Inc. Gold Coat ceramic armor and PC-9 solid lube sides
Eagle forged H-Beam rods with ARP bolts
Eagle forged and balanced crank shaft
ARP head and main stud kits
Moroso high flow oil pump
Edlebrock Performer centerbolt aluminum cylinder head (worked for blower)
SCE ICS Titan head gaskets
Comp Cams timing belt drive system
Lunati forged roller rockers w/ Lunati push rods

** ALL DYNOMETER TESTING ON 93 OCTANE FUEL W/ NOS OCTANE BOOSTER RACE FORMULA. **

 

I did a lot of research on axles and found that a full competition axle will not live on the street due to the brittle forging process so I ordered up a set of Moser Street/Strip axles. Then came the center section. Found that there are two different carrier sections for the 10 bolt 7.5 and the stronger of the two is the 2.32 carrier section and also requires a thinker ring gear (more durability!) I optioned for the Richmond gears (ratio of you choice), Richmond Powertracs locker, and Richmond master bearing kit. I installed the Moroso bolt in stud kit. Make sure your tolerances are perfect! Now comes the VooDoo!

The weak point on the 10 bolt isn't just the carrier, it's the axle shaft tubes. They are small and under extreme acceleration pull forward push the ring gear away from the pinion gear causing catastrophic failure. If the ring and pinion gear can maintain perfect contact, then the failure horse power is MUCH HIGHER! So we purchased a Summit Racing Cast aluminum differential cover with the main cap supports. This helps keep the main cap bearings from walking some but not entirely! We sent the diff cover to have supports welded to both end and then welded equal supports to the ends of the axle tubes. This with the main cap support almost eliminates ring gear walk!

I can tell you I've been giving mine hell for a year now launching the car at 4000 rpm on Mickey Thompson ET Streets and I'm make just under 500 hp at the wheels!!!

 

So the biggest part of maximizing the car was Horse Power of course. Started off a couple years ago with a direct port nitrous injection system with a progressive controller and that was a lot of fun! After a lot of testing (lolo) decided to pull that in favor of a Procharger D2R system but found along the way the ATI has sort of crappy support, so we pulled the Procharger of and moved to a Vortech V7Ysi and that seem to be the best fit! Vortech was very helpful over the last year and a half with helping come up with brackets and a 10 rib pulley combinations that works very well! The biggest part of the challenge was fuel delivery! With the NOS system it was easy, just put bigger jets, with a supercharger it's all about EFI! Keep in mind I'm still using the OE MAF system and customized a 3.5 MAF housing last year to stay with the factory ECM.

If anybody has been reading my post about the stand alone FIC system I just fabricated up, they know there has been some issues on using this to supplement my fuel deficiency epidemic. So did it anyway and just on the test drive it seemed to work pretty darn good, but the Dyno is the heartbreaker so we called in a appointment for this Saturday and off we went. I only had the dyno reserved for 1 hour and think with a little more time and tuning we could probably grab another 25-35 hp but after 9 full pulls here are the results and you be the judge.....

Keep in mind this is a stock cast internal, stock cast iron head motor.

523 RWHP (654 HP gross) and 659 RWTORQUE (711 TQ gross) at 4500 rpm and 15 psi boost

Drag Slip- 1/4 ET 11.94 MPH 117

For further info, feel free to post up or pm me. I tried to keep it basic, not everybody on forums are super techies or know tons of fancy acronyms and engineering techno mumbo jumbo. LATER GUYS

PS- NOW COME THE PURPOSE BUILT MOTOR BECAUSE THE BOLT ON PROJECT IS OVER!!!! HOPING FOR 650+ YEE-HAA!

 

THE HOD ROD MAGAZINE TOP SPEED CHALLENGE- TBD, ECTA MAXTON MILE.

RED LINE TIME ATTACK- TBD, ATLANTA MOTOR SPEEDWAY, ATLANTA GA

GT LIVE TOUR- TIME ATTACK- TBD, VIR VIRGINIA INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, ALTON VA

PAST EVENTS-

HIN HOT IMPORT NIGHTS- MAY 13 CHARLOTTE NC / WON- 1ST PLACE HOTTEST GENERAL MOTORS!

DROP JAW MAGAZINE- 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS, JULY 4 / WON- BEST IN SHOW (OVERALL)!!

GT LIVE TOUR- NCCA CAR SHOW, OCTOBER 6-8, VIR VIRGINIA / WON- 3RD MILD 2DR AND HOTTEST DOMESTIC!!