Various
Vehicles:
Motorcycles: '72
T120V Triumph Bonneville parts in dining room
(now in basement)
'83 Honda CB1100F recent project, currently getting money thrown at it
'83 Yamaha Vision SOLD ; pix at "stuff for
sale" section on main page
With 4 Wheels, previous cars: my First 'Hi-Po' FWD Dodge: '83.5 Shelby Charger front quarter
rear quarter
SC & 84 GLH NA
Scrapped! It was Hammered, but still commuting daily... 1984 Dodge GLH Omni
SOLD! Spring '01 gone but not forgotten GLH Turbo; guy drove from
SOLD! 6/02 1968 Plymouth GTX, off to SC to get fixed up... GTXa
GTXb
(pardon my fat bleached body) GTXc
SOLD! 3/04 off to a new home in cheese-land 1983 AMC
Concord 'woodie' wagons ho!
SOLD! 5/04 snow-mobile: 4x4 Ford Tempo
1989 Tempo AWD many many
miles
SOLD! 4/05 "new" winter runabout 12/03 1989 Dodge Omni low low
miles
SOLD! 4/05 '91 Dakota 2.5 SOHC, shortbed,
2WD 5 speed: overloaded
w/ 16' boards at Menards 24' long pole
lowered '91 Dak pix low front front quarter close
side front quarter
3" drop & 235/70 rear, 1.25 coils
cut & 235/60 front, '99 Sport 15x7 wheels
SOLD! 5/06: '93 Dakota 3.9 V6 Magnum longbed 2WD auto lowered
front side
3" drop & 235/60 rear, 1.5 coils
cut & 225/50 front, '99 Sport 15x7 wheels
With 4 wheels, Current Ride:
bought
5/06: '89 Shelby Dakota #1259 (of 1500); 5.2L V8, shortbed
2WD auto; 311,000+ miles! included
original Shelby items engine
bought from original owner, motor and trans are original and have never been
opened up rough interior
dents front busted air dam
rusty
rocker
Turbo-Omni HOT
NEW PROJECT 1986 Dodge Omni SE
Goal: run as quick as possible using (almost) all factory parts, mixing and
matching different years to get an optimum combo; mostly junkyard or secondhand
stuff
March '04: "new" project: '86
Omni with a "GLHS-style" TII conversion *partially* completed
"sleeper"
mint
interior
towed it from
July
'05: front side
rear
side
March '06: rear
of car
April '06: back seat region1
back
seat region2 back seat region3
August '06: mostly done now with 'body' work side skirts added
Technical Summary
of mods to date (updated 5/06):
'87 TI engine & A413 trans (from Daytona Pacifica)
'88 TII "1-piece" intake manifold & intercooler (IC) (from
Daytona Shelby Z)
'86-7 GLHS Mopar Performance Stage II Logic Module
(LM, aka 'computer')
'88 TI exhaust manifold, ported by 'moparzrule'
NOS TI turbo, updated with TII compressor housing (Thanks Pat B. for this great
OE part)
'89 2.5" swing-valve (SV), ported a bit by me
'89+ 2.5" downpipe (DP) ; wrapped in 1"
heat tape (Summit Racing part SUM-350100)
2.5" -> 3" transition cone; Flowmaster
(Summit Racing part FLO-R3025)
3" mandrel bent 'cat back' system (fwdperformance part FWD 7-313), no cat or
muffler
K&N cone air filter on turbo inlet (Summit Racing part KNN-RU-2990);
I know it's not optimal mounting location...
wheels: '93 Oldsmobile Achieva 15"x6" (17#
each)
tires: new, generic 195/50 rear & 195/60 front
manual boost controller (MBC aka G-Valve) Grainger
valve (part 5Z763) ;
set @ 9 psi boost
A/F (air-fuel ratio) gauge (Summit Racing part SUM-G2986)
extensive lightening of car, 170+ pounds so far
'liquid nails' filled (new) front motor mount
in this configuration, running 7 bars on A/F
gauge (hence conservative boost setting), my best 0-60mph Gtech
time was a 5.90 backed up with a 5.92
recent work; update 7/06:
head rebuilt by North Central Engine in Baraga, MI:
oversize (36.8 mm) SS exhaust valves (fwdperformance part fwd 58-0361)
3 angle valve job
beehive springs (stock 2000- Chrysler 3.3 V6 part)
'PT' lifters (stock 2000+ Chrysler 2.4 part)
'91 TBI roller cam and roller followers
thermal coated ported
exh. mani, 2.5" SV, and turbo
turbine housing {Techline
MCS coating good to 2000F}
ported turbo turbine inlet and
outlet
'gasket matched' head ports
to intake and exhaust manifolds
'87 computer (aka Logic Module or LM) "socketed"
to allows swapping RAM chips with various calibrations
custom calibration to operate oversize (Mopar
Performance +20%) fuel injectors
MSD Blaster coil
now running 8 bars on A/F gauge @
10 psi boost; improved to a 5.7 second 0-60 and a
14.03 @ 103.5 mph 1/4 mile (G-Tech measured)
Hot Video! 14.50 @ 97 with 185# passenger QuickTime Windows MediaPlayer MPEG
Leaving driveway movie
(QuickTime format)
next steps:
getting an updated calibration to allow a
bit more A/F
3-stage boost control using 2 electrically controlled vacuum solenoids and
2 G-Valves
polybushings.com front control
arm bushings to install
next, next steps:
balanced & built CB 2.5L motor ; SRT4 FMIC (or equivalent), .63
turbine housing, 3" SV & DP
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Miscellaneous MoPar Historical or Technical Reprints
Chrysler 2.2 naturally
aspirated build-up 180 Hp (180k pdf)
1991 Short Take 92 Daytona IROC
R/T TIII (440k jpeg)
Holley 6520 diagram (1.2M jpg)
and adjustments
(650K jpg)
History of Omni GLH article
(small 750K pdf)
History of Plymouth
Scamp trucklet (small pdf)
GLH log-TI 30Hp 'bolt-on' power
"how-to" (small pdf)
Shelby CSX-T intercooler
add-on "how-to" (small pdf)
14.0 second 'stock' '87 log-TI
Shadow 'build-up' (small pdf)
"1-of-1" Shelby GLHS Rampage
1989 Shelby Automobiles catalog
(large 4.3M pdf)
1990 Shelby Performance
Parts catalog (large
5M pdf)
1983 Direct Connection
FWD Parts catalog
(1.2M pdf)
