St185 full rebuild

chriss402

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The end goal is a Sunday driver that is capable of being a race car . But the car will never race , too much time , effort and money invested at this stage .
 

Tippo

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chriss402":mts9kxu5 said:
The end goal is a Sunday driver that is capable of being a race car . But the car will never race , too much time , effort and money invested at this stage .

Totally agree. What are you thinking about estimated power numbers?
 

chriss402

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The company that's building the motor is out of Florida called PSI racing. They specialize in the 3SGTE motor. Its supposed to be 400HP when completed. I didn't want anything that was unreliable, I have to remember where I live. Here on the island of Barbados we get the lowest grade fuel , 92 octane. The high end cars guys here buy 109 octane racing fuel and add a portion to the cheap gas to raise the octane levels. But that starts to get expensive.
 

chriss402

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I started laying up the molds for the fenders in order to start making parts
 

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Because the some of the parts had negative angles, the molds had to be made in multiple pieces in order to get the part out afterwards.
 

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First part laid up and left to cure in the mold for 48 hours
 

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