Welcome to my car and bike page. I am a car builder and a motorcycle stunt rider. I am currently pushing the hell out of the solstice. The ecotec motors have been pretty bulletproof. We know GM racing has tuned these motors to a 1000 HP and the the Red Bull Drifting team currently is running 500 hp drifters.
Our main problem is keeping traction. We finally stiffened the chasis up a bit. It has been a fun and costly effort. Anybody who thinks these solstices are slow, are getting surprised by the team solstices cars. Currently the team members have been involved in the upcoming fast & furious part 4 movie.

At the Hin show. Mtv's Pimp my ride MadMike jumped in for some pictures.

On the set at fast & furious 4 with star Paul Walker

Team solstice on the set of the fast & furious. I'm the guy on the very left in the yellow shirt

Shots of the different shows

transformers!

2 hottest custom solstices in the world.

The car is doing DUBB & HIN this year and shooting scenes for fast & furious 4 in between. Please do not ask me for any info on the new fast & furious. I will not talk about it. If you love cars, you will love the movie. I am very impressed with Justin's work.

Welcome to my car and bike page. This car is a winner here on car domain for the showoff contest. The car has been in constant build this year. Thats MTV's Pimp my Ride host MadMike in some of the pics.

The car is now complete and currently competeing in the 2008 car show season. This car is putting out close to 360hp at the wheel. The motor was built by Dave Gilbert at autoperformance werks. We are shooting for 400 hp out of this motor.
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On page two I am buidling a carbon fiber bike with a radical single sided front end. Thats the new project.

Behind the scenes at the upcoming fast & furious part 4!
We were shooting some outside club scenes. I can not talk about the movie, but the girls are hot, Justin Lin is a cool cat and Vin Diesel & Paul Walker are back.

A Ferrari f430 front end was mated to the Solstice. The Ferrari front end was cut up, shortened and fiberglassed in. This aftermarket front bumper to keep the solstice sides and headlights shape. Norm's fiberglass is the number one place to get your ideals turned into reality. This piece tripled my air intake to feed the aftermarket intercooler and turbo.

The ferrari piece vents air in to two outer radiators. That won't work on the solstice. The vents were cut out and reversed to flow air into the middle(radiator/intercooler) instead of the outsides.

Here was a photoshop of what the Ferrari hybrid front end would look like. I usually photoshop changes first. It came out very close.

The front fenders are custom one offs. I saw a pic of a porsche caymen, and got the ideal for the fender vents off it. Heres the Porsche Caymen:

From far away I saw the porsche pic and said cool fenders. When I got closer, I noticed that it was the rear end of a caymen Porsche. I bought some fiberglass fenders and the Porsche vents. Once again, Norm's fiberglass did their thing. The fender frame needs surgery and battery tray modified or you can replace your stock battery with a smaller one. The vents were molded in with fiberglass. I added a aftermarket motorcycle blinker. The fenders vent hot turbo air out of the engine bay.

I replaced the rear end with a custom finned dual valance built by Norms fiberglass. I added the rear mudflaps, custom reverse lights, personalised license plate, a backup camera and the dual 3" exhaust. The rear wing is off a saturn sky. I modified the mounting plate to get it on. I added a illuminated windrestrictor behind the seats. I was going to smoke the tailights, but that gives a cop a reason to pull you over.

The reverse lights had to go. They look so cheesy. They make the rear look cheap. I ditched those and made some custom clear leds for the reverse light functions.I had to remove the stock lenses to use the stock outer housing. The new Leds fit perfectly in the oem housing. Don't use a heat gun as it will melt your lenses, and old hot rodders trick is to throw the housing in a pot of boiling water. The water will seperate the lenses after about 40 minutes of boiling. The wiring was a simple 2 wire bit.

Had to do custom lambo doors. I have the only 90 degree doors on a solstice in usa. I have always liked them. Stay away from the weld on kits unless your an experienced installer. Took about a day for the install. You will need to notch your hood, fenders and fender brackets to get these on. Doors open like stock or swing up.

Tow hook keeps the front bumper safe during any towing incidents.

I drilled a total of 5 holes in the crash bar in front of the filter to feed the turbo cool air. Heres a pic half way through.
I used a large unibit, followed by a file and then some black ppaint.

I didn't slack off on the motor. The stock ecotec has decent power, but I gave it some help.

I added a stage 3 werks turbo kit to it. The Precision turbocharger features a dual ball bearing center section, water cooling, 54mm inducer compressor wheel, and a T31 exhaust wheel. It will support approx 450 flywheel HP. The manifold and downpipe are custom stainless steel units. I replaced the injectors with bigger ones and replaced the 1-bar sensor with a 2-bar sensor. The ecm has been reflashed using Ls2 edit and HP tuners software. I use a Tial BOV and wastegate. I use a AEM boost controller with a setting for race gas and a scramble boost toggle. The FMIC is from Vibrant Performance.
All the silicone is from Silicone intakes. I added AEM water/menthol injection which instantly gave me over 300 lbs of torque and stoped the motor frm pinging. I used all t-bolts clamps. SPEC handles the clutch and I also replaced the flywheel with a Fidanza unit. I use a K&N filter. The exhaust is a custom 3" dual pipe from the cat-back. The stock cat was cut to steal its flanges and then welded up to a high flow cat. See below. The ecotec motor has been bullet proof. Our goal is 400hp at the rear wheel with 91 octane. The meth/water injection raises the octane to about 115.




Heres the downpipe being welded. I use aem gauges and wideband to watch the vitals and a dashhawk ver. 2 to record the a/f stats.


The main problems with turbos, is that parts tend to vibrate loose and clamps seem to blow off. Don't go cheap with clamps.
I use t-bolt clamps. I lockwired everything to keep it on.

Heat has become my new enemy, so I went with a racing radiator which is 3 times bigger then stock. Drove 7 hours in 100+ degree heat and a/c on with no problems. Big props to the radiator. The MSD Dashhawk has functions to leave my fan running on high when the car is on.

Any plastic loom near the turbo is going to melt, so wrap everything with heat shield. I wrapped the exhaust manifold and downpipe with header heat wrap. I used thermotec's new copper based wrap.



Fabricated a high flow cat. Here is the stock and the magnaflow one.

I cut off the flanges of the stock unit.

The flanges were then re-welded to the aftermarket highflow cat.

Should flow alot more then the stock restrictive one. Its worth
10-20hp on a turbo charged car.

Check out next page for the custom red burgundy interior, brake upgrade, suspension, rims and dvd, ipod, navagation setup.