darrell cox 2.0 to 2.2 to 2.6l sohc stroker saga

BillyMike · Post by **BillyMike** » Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:10 pm

So whats the good word Brad!?!?!?

BillyMike

SGT BRAD · Post by **SGT BRAD** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:21 pm

alright, here's the latest. i have been telling darrell for over a month that i was coming to get the car on the 17th. he called on wed and said they were installing everything and could he please have another couple of days. he said he'd give me day by day updates. i said, "fine, you have one more week." if you are reading this darrell or jonathan, i am coming next weekend. i pray that the car is done, but i'll believe it when i see it. i am very disappointed and frustrated. there is still some hope that darrell will come through, but i will have to wait until next saturday to find out. as of now i have not received anymore phone calls since wed. in spite of darrell saying he'd call me daily. i tried the shop on friday and only received the voicemail. everyone knows my number up there and i'm sure they dread seeing it come up on the caller id.

darrell told me that the #1 rod broke in 1/2 on my old stroker motor and that was the catastrophic failure. he thinks it was a bearing or crankshaft failure. so much for the bulletproof titanium nitride coating on the crankshaft. the new motor is supposed to be a 9.5 or 10:1 2.6 with all of the bells and whistles that he does. i'm just wondering if i'm going to get a running car back from his shop or if i'm going to have to finish it myself.

oh yeah fwiw those were eagle rods in the old motor. imagine what was going on in there to snap one of those in 2!!!

n20sxt · Post by **n20sxt** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 12:37 am

Wow...... that sucks
how much have you spent like altogether jw...?

SGT BRAD · Post by **SGT BRAD** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:43 am

at this point i don't know how much i've spent. it would take time to sit down and go through all of the receipts to even get a vague idea. suffice it to say that i've spent more on mods than i did to purchase the car new.

Post by **racer12306** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:54 am

You do not want to do that. You may go insane, and then actions following would not be desirable

hul kogan · Post by **hul kogan** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:04 am

Yes, I agree with Frank. Don't do it Brad. I stopped adding up my mods a long time ago...for sanity's sake.

blue demon02 · Post by **blue demon02** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:21 pm

Brad, go get the car and take it to Arthur. You throw a fraction of the money at Arthur that you have at Darrel and He will get the car done and it will be a beast. Plus he needs the funds cause he got his car broken into.

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:02 pm

Such persistance. I wanna see this thing running.

Ntyvirus1 · Post by **Ntyvirus1** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:15 pm

ZeroChad wrote:Such persistance. I wanna see this thing running.

SGT BRAD · Post by **SGT BRAD** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 9:54 pm

blue demon02 wrote:Brad, go get the car and take it to Arthur. You throw a fraction of the money at Arthur that you have at Darrel and He will get the car done and it will be a beast. Plus he needs the funds cause he got his car broken into.

vic,

i wish i could get the car to arthur, but i wasn't even able to get up there to the car this weekend. darrell has again said he'll bring the car to me. i dunno. i really like darrell, i just think i got shifted onto the back burner. this has cost darrell way more than i've paid him. of course that doesn't change the fact that i've still not gotten what i paid for. darrell just bit off more than he could chew. it seems to be a typical situation for neon tuners. i have pics of my car and it's still in one piece. i am not too worried about experiencing the horror stories like i heard from fast fabrications after jason went belly up. my prayer is that the car is done and delivered in the next week or so. if not i'll have to plan on another trip up there and right now things are tight. i'd like to maybe fly arthur down here at some point to spend a few days. we could try the crower cam on a 2.6 bottom-end. i'd pick up the airfare, spring for the dyno time and pay him something for his time. that is if i get the car back complete from darrell. it'll be a while though.
brad

Passt · Post by **Passt** » Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:46 pm

ZeroChad wrote:Such persistance. I wanna see this thing running.

+1

asanti · Post by **asanti** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:10 pm

Brad, massive kudos to you for even having the PATIENCE to still be dealing with DCR in a standup fashion and to still have the interest to still want to mod it even further. If that were my car and my $15+K invested, someone's arms would have been broken at that shop already. (Oh, wait, that would DELAY the build even further then huh?

) Either way, still subscribed to this, hoping you get your car back NOW.

Later
Allex

SGT BRAD · Post by **SGT BRAD** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:55 pm

no one probably cares about this thread anymore, but the squirted 2.6sohc is running...

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:58 pm

Bravo! The bigger question though is: is it in your possession?

bone-yard-racing · Post by **bone-yard-racing** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 8:59 pm

YAY!!!

INVUJerry · Post by **INVUJerry** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:55 pm

YESSS!!!!!

r/tguy02 · Post by **r/tguy02** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:19 pm

and the other question is, who got it running? either way good news!

Ntyvirus1 · Post by **Ntyvirus1** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:45 pm

ZeroChad wrote:Bravo! The bigger question though is: is it in your possession?

what they said

asanti · Post by **asanti** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:42 am

Glad to hear it Brad! Now I'd be happier if 1: it's in your permanent possession and 2: you don't have any more

surprises pop up. It's about damn time that you get to ENJOY that car...

gilly02le · Post by **gilly02le** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:18 am

Thank god. Now, were going to need a good quality video of this beast! That's if you have the car back at your house anyways!

blue demon02 · Post by **blue demon02** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:32 pm

yea, update please!!! want to know whats going on!!!!

Danteneon · Post by **Danteneon** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:16 pm

Since I don't read this thread I missed that update.

That does sound like good news man

Now answer the above questions or :ban:

ragek23 · Post by **ragek23** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 6:20 pm

awesome news!!!!!!!

catalyst · Post by **catalyst** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:48 pm

Great news, now...

We are all waiting for video.

BillyMike · Post by **BillyMike** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 2:41 pm

SWEET!!! So when do we get video of it?

BillyMike

SGT BRAD · Post by **SGT BRAD** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 2:52 pm

still tuning...192hp and 177tq so far.

blue demon02 · Post by **blue demon02** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:08 pm

Her better break 200, or he is done in my book, absolutely no reason why he shouldn't be able to hit 200+

keeders08 · Post by **keeders08** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 10:33 am

SGT BRAD wrote:still tuning...192hp and 177tq so far.

FUCK YEA AMERICA!!!!!!

u have no idea how happy i am, i argued with my buddy about wether it was even possible or not.. that bastard..

blue demon02 · Post by **blue demon02** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:40 pm

keeders08 wrote:
SGT BRAD wrote:still tuning...192hp and 177tq so far.
FUCK YEA AMERICA!!!!!!

u have no idea how happy i am, i argued with my buddy about wether it was even possible or not.. that bastard..

Possible to what break 200? its been done in every fashion and form in any varity of 4 cylinder you can throw in a neon.

Brad here is what i don't understand. It is well known that with decent compression (10:1) you can get well over 200WHP in a 2.4 DOHC you have a 2.6 and if DCR claims that this head he made for you will flow better then a DOHC head then you should be in the 250WHP range. 197WHP is just realy, realy low and something is deffanitly not right.

silversport · Post by **silversport** » Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:02 pm

video please!!! even just an idle video!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!! lol