Project timeline: Winter 2006 - Summer 2006
Issue: Doug is a competitive driver, but needs more horsepower to get to the top.
Goal: Develop a remote mounted drifting focused turbo system for the Mustang that provides reliable boost, increases mid-range torque, distributes weight better and improves the sound of the vehicle.
Update: 2/3/06
The system was fabricated by Bobby Young and Matt Drouin at CIN Motorsports in North Carolina near the end of January. Doug and the guys at CIN put in a herculean effort to get the car completed quickly so that Doug can head to his first qualifying race. The results on a stock motor were very impressive. They started with 215HP and 230TQ at the wheels. The end result at the wheels was 423HP @ 5100rpm and 469TQ @ 4300rpm with 7 psi of boost.
Here's some of Doug's comments about the car...
"Since I hadn't driven a turbo'd car in a long time, I had forgotten that rush of power as the motor comes up on boost. After seeing the dyno numbers, I was obviously very happy but I had driven cars with much bigger digits so I didn't really expect the Mustangs performance to be so dramatic. Now after driving the car and getting to feel the acceleration I dare say my right foot now has something fun to play with....
The car drives as silky smooth as it did when it was bone-stock. It doesn't stumble off idle. It doesn't surge at partial throttle. It doesn't have any bad manors that I'm accustomed to with high performance engines.
What it does do is simply ridiculous! As the saying goes, "even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while" this combination of STS Turbo, P-51 Manifold, Dragon Throttle Body, Active Intercooler, CP Racing Pipe system and upgraded Fuel system work absolutely perfectly together. Add to that, with Chicane Sport Tuning's dual-pass Radiator our engine temp never went over 200*.
At 40mph in 3rd gear I can roll on the throttle and ANNIHILATE the rear 275mm Goodyear F1 Eagles. Once I hit red-line I shift smoothly into 4th gear and spin the tires for another 100 feet. All this with a modest 426 horse power. You can feel the tires spinning but the Goodyear's have such good grip (even while spinning) that the car just flat accelerates. It really is an unbelievable improvement in the car. I never would have guest that 7lbs of boost and these few "bolt-ons" would transform the car like they have done. I have a feeling I'll be ordering tires in a greater regularity from now on......"
Update: 6/03/07
The system has now gone through it's 2nd, 3rd and 4th updates. Following on the ideas that Bobby & Matt of CIN Motorsports put together on the original configuration, Mark Michaud and Rick Squires of STS (with some "the driver knows best" meddling from Doug of coarse) have refined the system to flow even more air. The Active Intercooler is now located in the rear of the car to further improve the Mustang's weight distribution and HPC has added their Metallic Ceramic high performance coatings to keep things hot that are supposed to be hot and keep things cool that are supposed to be cool. From there an all new aluminum 4.6L motor was assembled by KT Engine Development and Matt Drouin at CIN with the help of fine products from LnR Engines, Scat, Probe and Patriot Performance.
Once the new engine made it though it's break in stage some good gas was poured in the tank and Dan DeSio of Pro-Dyno in Fort Mill, SC has been able to squeeze 550HP and 545 pound feet of Torque at the wheels with only 10psi of boost out of this little motor. There's a rumor going around that the car is now actually seeing around 13psi now but neither Doug, Dan or the boys at CIN are are fesing up to any new numbers. All we know is that when the car was recently here in Salt Lake City, we had Doug bring it out to Miller Motorsports Park for a little demo and in 4th gear running on the stickiest 295's that Falken Tire has to offer their factory supported Drift teams there was so much smoke coming off the front straight away that the local fire marshal picked up the phone to make sure everything was alright....
