Murray's Black Spider Project
After some nudging from Green Dragon and 60’sRacer I decided it would be nice to have all the information on my project on one “Thread” so I am creating this one.
I would first like to thank JohnM., Conedriver, Little Italian, 60’sRacer, Genericwood, for all their help, a Big thanks to Steve Schwitter’s (Rockford IL.) who built and designed the engine and everything around it and Bob Payton at Speedlab (SpringGrove IL) who provided and tuned the Autronic's SM2 programmable ecu to perfection.
In this project I kept all the luxuries of the S-4 Spider like the power windows, A/C, power steering and brake’s so from the outside she will look stock for the street use.
This is what I did in the project:
1. A big valve fully prep race engine (CR of 10.4)
2. Twin Individual Throttle Body's and carbon fiber airbox
3. Aluminum flywheel
4. 7.25 in dia Tilton using a Clutch-Net sprung hub clutch disc
5. Installed an Autronic SM2 programmable ECU.
6. Modified the intake VVT and added a modified exhaust VVT
7. Autronic 500R Direct Fire Ignition
8. Modified the cooling system
9. Modified the cold air intake
10. Rebuilt the TX with lighten gears
11. Gated the oil sump
12. Switched out the 4.10 axle to a 4.58 that is shimmed to 50%
13. Installed Outlaw calipers and Tar-Ox rotors all the way around
14. Switch out the 26 mm front sway bar to a 29 mm
15. Switch out the Koni’s Red’s for Yellows
16. Custom bolt in Roll Bar with a removable Petty Bar
17. Custom seat frames for the Sparco race seats
18. New seat covers and bases
19. Custom 2.5" Burns Stainless exhaust system.
I will briefly go over each of these modifications and have plenty of picture’s. It will take some time so be patient.
Murray
To start off here is the before and after Engine bay.
After some nudging from Green Dragon and 60’sRacer I decided it would be nice to have all the information on my project on one “Thread” so I am creating this one.
I would first like to thank JohnM., Conedriver, Little Italian, 60’sRacer, Genericwood, for all their help, a Big thanks to Steve Schwitter’s (Rockford IL.) who built and designed the engine and everything around it and Bob Payton at Speedlab (SpringGrove IL) who provided and tuned the Autronic's SM2 programmable ecu to perfection.
In this project I kept all the luxuries of the S-4 Spider like the power windows, A/C, power steering and brake’s so from the outside she will look stock for the street use.
This is what I did in the project:
1. A big valve fully prep race engine (CR of 10.4)
2. Twin Individual Throttle Body's and carbon fiber airbox
3. Aluminum flywheel
4. 7.25 in dia Tilton using a Clutch-Net sprung hub clutch disc
5. Installed an Autronic SM2 programmable ECU.
6. Modified the intake VVT and added a modified exhaust VVT
7. Autronic 500R Direct Fire Ignition
8. Modified the cooling system
9. Modified the cold air intake
10. Rebuilt the TX with lighten gears
11. Gated the oil sump
12. Switched out the 4.10 axle to a 4.58 that is shimmed to 50%
13. Installed Outlaw calipers and Tar-Ox rotors all the way around
14. Switch out the 26 mm front sway bar to a 29 mm
15. Switch out the Koni’s Red’s for Yellows
16. Custom bolt in Roll Bar with a removable Petty Bar
17. Custom seat frames for the Sparco race seats
18. New seat covers and bases
19. Custom 2.5" Burns Stainless exhaust system.
I will briefly go over each of these modifications and have plenty of picture’s. It will take some time so be patient.
Murray
To start off here is the before and after Engine bay.