Probably right... but for the moment, i don't want to over-clutch it. Just needs to handle 240hp/200tq max. If i have to buy another clutch next season if i supercharge it, so be it.

I think the TZ series not liking boost varies by platform... lots of MX6 guys are using it with just about 400wtq with no issues.

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Congrats, your car sounds like a pornstar trying to play a trumpet with her anus.

My Escort cost more than your Porsche.

Whatever! Double wishbones, bro!!!!

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Congrats, your car sounds like a pornstar trying to play a trumpet with her anus.

My Escort cost more than your Porsche.

Lulz, I might be missing the next one. So you shouldn't be to far off. And if I do, you should catch up quick. Haha

I'll be missing them until like.... mid May at this point. Working 60 hour weeks means i really only have one day a week to build.

If all my parts suddenly come in at once, though, i'll take a week off and slap the bitch together.

The problem is that with so many custom parts, my lead-out times can change at a moments notice. (Example: My second pair of rear arms got delayed 3 weeks because of a supply issue at the machine shop that Pierce Motorsports was farming the fastening work out to.)

As of right now, my front LCAs are two weeks out, and my custom sway bars are 3 weeks out.

Interprep promises me they have my valve springs in stock, but i've seen supply issues with them before, and i'm busy begging and pleading for them to make me another set of their old cams they used to produce a decade ago. King6 makes all his parts on a purchase basis, so i'm waiting a couple weeks for the timing belt tensioner. Anthony Woodford Racing is still discussing with me the plausibility of using a Probe/MX6 V6 rear mount instead of their MX3 mount due to fitment issues, and i'm trying to convince them to make me the rest of the mounts as well.



The parts ARE out there, but it's no Honda where you can just order everything off the shelf.

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Congrats, your car sounds like a pornstar trying to play a trumpet with her anus.

My Escort cost more than your Porsche.

And at half price

True story... But i don't consider the money i sent Pierce Motorsports for all my arms, harness bar, and rear tie brace to be that bad. I sent him $1000. Once i track down a set of 3rd gen ZX2 tubular trailing arms, i'll send them out to him to modify for $200 as well, thanks for reminding me.

Custom sway bars are running me $200 a piece.

The parts really aren't that bad, and i have the knowledge that they were tailored specifically to what i needed, and they are race tested. (For the most part, these are copies of what Jim uses on his road racing Escort.) I couldn't buy the stock MX3 GS stuff for this price. (Went with MX3 measurements to help geometry and increase track width by 80mm. Yep, 80mm)

The cool thing about all this is that there's NO WAY i can possibly get a knockoff in anything i'm doing, and pretty much everything has already been race-tested.

South Bend - Their reputation precedes them
Interprep - used to race MX6s up in canada in their touring classes using their springs and cams on an otherwise stock motor
Fidanza flywheel - same as south bend
Pierce stuff - addressed above


I'm overbuilding this thing because i want to set it up once, drive it a season, and have the only thing i need to replace over winter be tires, brakes, and rebuild a strut or two if i need it.

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Congrats, your car sounds like a pornstar trying to play a trumpet with her anus.

My Escort cost more than your Porsche.

hmm, well with SHO's they tell us the tz is good for n/a and nitrous applications, since the kevlar is softer to keep from glazing the clutch when slipped. The dxd is what you want for boost.......its a mean ass clutch too

I liked how much stiffer my clutch pedal is, and it is a cable clutch, no hydraulic assist...

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95 318ti - possible grm $2012 entrant...
92 SHO mtx - gawd dammed loch ness monster

Yeah, i'm not putting a DXD on the Escort right now...

But, i may or may not have already gotten one for the MX6.


I think the exhaust got here yesterday... we're picking it up today.

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Congrats, your car sounds like a pornstar trying to play a trumpet with her anus.

My Escort cost more than your Porsche.

I wish I could just order the exhaust I want.........its a PITA to find a mandrel bent straight exhaust......

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95 SHO mtx - project/garage queen
95 318ti - possible grm $2012 entrant...
92 SHO mtx - gawd dammed loch ness monster

Exhaust is here... Thought it was just going to be a cat-back, but apparently it's the whole thing? Nice surprise. Already has an o2 bung in it, so i don't have to worry about that. The fart cannon is a bit bigger than i was expecting, though. :p



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Congrats, your car sounds like a pornstar trying to play a trumpet with her anus.

My Escort cost more than your Porsche.

Better pic of the rear arms:




Mostly complete front arm. (Waiting on pins):

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Congrats, your car sounds like a pornstar trying to play a trumpet with her anus.

My Escort cost more than your Porsche.

Over kill?

This is America. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing to excess.

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Congrats, your car sounds like a pornstar trying to play a trumpet with her anus.

My Escort cost more than your Porsche.

Loved the DXD I had in the Rallyescort (replaced a spec stg 3). But the same thing happened with South Bend as what happened with Spec on my first turbo escort....they sent me the BP clutch! BP DXD clutch is a 4puck, DXD CVH clutch is 3!!!

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1987 Porsche 944 Turbo (Under the knife)
1990 Audi Coupe Quattro (DD, for sale soon)
1995 Audi 90QS (4.2L V8 swap)

I hope they don't do that to me... i can USE a BP clutch, but it's smaller in diameter and doesn't dissipate heat as well.

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Congrats, your car sounds like a pornstar trying to play a trumpet with her anus.

My Escort cost more than your Porsche.

That maters why? You will be in second the whole time. Unless you are going to road race it...

This will be making at least one trip to the drag strip, and will be driven to events and around town on occasion.

And a BP clutch costs the same, so there's no point even from a monetary standpoint.

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My Escort cost more than your Porsche.

Ooooooooooooo MOTOR!



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Congrats, your car sounds like a pornstar trying to play a trumpet with her anus.

My Escort cost more than your Porsche.

wait.... that a V.... and haz 2 heads... JDM>?@!>?>!?!>? braaps wiff vtak? 4cams? 4camz+vtak? thats mucho braaps

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1980 civic wagon- soon to be old school Japanese FULL OF WIN
70 Honda trail ct70 4spd
1991 JDM Honda Chaly

It IS a V.

It DOES have 2 heads.

It IS JDM.

It DOES have 4 cams.


However... no vtak. It DOES have "VRIS" though, which is pretty effin' cool if you ask me.


I also liked this quote:




Basically we're looking at a 2.5 litre V6 that i'll be spinning to 8000rpms.

This particular example has only 20k miles on a FULL rebuild, and already has been swapped to "KLDE" springs and retainers to prevent the dropped retainer issue that unfortunately was the only weak point of the "KLZE." This is the high-comp, big cam variant. All i need to source to complete this motor is an intake manifold and throttle body. (Looking for a CZT bored out unit.)

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Congrats, your car sounds like a pornstar trying to play a trumpet with her anus.

My Escort cost more than your Porsche.