The Good ol' Firechicken as some call it. This is the second of three F-body cars that I have owned and is my favorite one out of the three.

 (To say the least its not hard to figure out why..)

Just look at it! Its beautiful and has tons of power and performance even coming from factory. This bird started off life easy, but only to run into my hands and become what it was truely made to be.. 

One way overpowered new age muscle car! 

For those who are a true and blue GM fan this is one car that should be on your "To-Do" list to drive at least one time in your life. If you dont like it, so be it.. but you most likely wont be disappointed.

The reason for this picture and why the front end looks funny is because the engine is no longer a linking member of the vehicle at this time. And that leads me to what will be here to come in this vehicles pages. The first build up with the supercharger, me blowing it up and taking it apart, and then last the new engine that I am building for it.. He He.. A supercharged 403ci LQ9 stroker!

 These are a couple of pictures that were taken on the day we finished the 1st build up, pulled it out of the garage for the first time in 6 months, and fired it up.. These are also the last pictures that were taken before the engine got destroyed (the engine only lasted about an hour and a half run time before taking on major internal damage).

 I will explain it with detail and what caused what in the pictures with good detail so you will then know what not to do and you will not make the same mistakes as me!

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 This is about the Destruction of my Firehawks Stock Engine with a little help from a Supercharger!

All I can say is.. Oops!

Cylinder #3                                  Cylinder #5

 Cylinder #7

 All three cylinders that you see here are on the driver side bank of the engine (#3, #5, and #7). The opposing side took on no damage (#2, #4, #6, #8) and cylinder #1 that there is no picture of also went unharmed, Some how?

 To say the least the reason for this happening is completely my own fault, I chose to run the engine without installing the secondary fuel pump (like an idiot) and managed to think that 10psi of boost and not enough fuel was going to deliver the correct air/fuel ratio, or NOT!

3 things can help prevent this from happening to anybody;

1. Install a Wideband O2 sensor and gauge.

2. Install a Fuel pump that can feed a powerhouse like this.

3. Do BOTH of the above

These pictures are from FINISHED product to DISASSEMBLY after the blow-out.

The First picture you see here is from when we finished the engine on the car. All the add-ons we did went unharmed other than a good oil coating everywhere from 3 pistons having holes in them and pumping oil into the intake, power cooler, supercharger, engine compartment (out the dip stick hole) and exhaust itself.

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Here we went ahead and took the extras and valve covers off trying to figure out what went wrong? When all of this happened we figured we had either Dropped a valve or done something majorly wrong in maybe one cylinders.

 Once we took off the Y-Pipe and Catalytic Converters we then soon realised this was not so good..

Looking at this picture and all the oil that was in the Cat and sitting inside the collector and down tubes we soon realised that we had a problem with more than one cylinder.

So we continued on by draining all the coolant out and pulled the heads off of the engine. This is when we found that 3 of the pistons had holes in them.

To say the least this was a costly investmant of 6 months time for my friends and I along with thousands of $$ of my own money. After 6 months time I was unpatient and decided to not put a fuel pump on that would of taken an hours time and instead I caused myself thousands of $$ in damage along with a whole world of problems to come.

So on we must go!